Alexia Pieretti reviews An Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty at the King’s Arms as part of MIFTA
Anna Jin interviews Gabriel Clark from the Manchester theatre company SwitchMCR ahead of their show We Won’t Fall
Zorro the Musical, which is inspired by the Isabel Allende novel and has music by the Gipsy Kings, opens at Hope Mill Theatre next month, starring Blue’s Antony Costa
Theatre Editor Jay Darcy interviews 6 x Grammy winner Glen Ballard, 2 x Grammy and 2 x Emmy winner Alan Silvestri, and Bob Gale, the co-writer of Back to the Future
Rosemary Russett reviews Ad Infinitum’s Extraordinary Wall of Silence at HOME
Urussa Malik reviews The Runway at the Martin Harris Centre
Lily Rosenberg reviews the University of Manchester Musical Theatre Society’s (UMMTS) Avengers: Ensemble
Sophia Hadji-Michael reviews Bost-Uni Plues at HOME Theatre as part of PUSH Festival
Scarlett Gorman reviews Kneehigh’s Ubu! at the Lowry
Theatre Editor Jay Darcy and Claudia Langley interview Melanie Blake, ahead of the tour of the stage adaptation of her best-selling novel, The Thunder Girls
Francesca McClimont attends the press event for Bourgeois and Maurice’s first musical, Insane Animals, which also stars Lockie Chapman from The Overtones
Kayleigh Crawford reviews Gecko and Mind the Gap’s Space at HOME
Theatre Editor Jay Darcy attends the Back to the Future press junket at The Ivy
Anna Jin reviews Hope Mill Theatre’s Welcome to Shangri-La, written by BAFTA Break-through Gemma Langford
Cara Conte reviews Thriller – Live, the Michael Jackson concert musical at the Palace Theatre
Georgina Davidson reviews Queen and Ben Elton’s We Will Rock You at the Palace Theatre
Theatre Editor Jay Darcy reviews Party Like Gatsby at O2 Ritz
Lily Rosenberg reviews The Strange Tale of Charlie Chaplin and Stan Laurel at HOME