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Review: Avenue Q

Louise Avey reviews UMMTS’ production of Tony-winning musical Avenue Q

Review: How to Win Against History

Izzy Lewis reviews How To Win Against History, the final performance in HOME’s Orbit Festival 2017

Review: The Commitments

After its record breaking two-year run in the West End, this sensational soul musical comes to the Palace Theatre with a knock-out cast and electrifying atmosphere

Review: Yank! The Musical

A tonally confused musical lifted by some fantastic performances and moments of pathos and humour

Review: Grease: The Musical

One of the West End’s biggest hits, Grease: The Musical, starts its premiere run in Manchester with a spectacular Sandy and plenty of nostalgia

Review: La La Land

La La Land is an homage to jazz which neglects to ultimately pay any viable homage to jazz

Review: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

The audience at the Lowry were treated to a wonderful performance that was visually superb and entertaining from beginning to end

Review: Sweet Charity

This reinvention of the classic Broadway musical will have you laughing, clapping and ready to dance the night away

Review: Billy Elliot The Musical

This toe-tapping smash hit musical will have you crying and laughing and everything in-between

Review: Showstoppers! The Improvised Musical

Showstoppers! create an entire musical production before your very eyes; a show that is improvised based entirely on audiences’ suggestions

Review: A Pacifist’s Guide to the War on Cancer

The play that tells society how to speak about and live with the big C word

Review: Cats! The Musical

The jellicle cats come alive at the Manchester Opera House in this modern take on the classic family musical

Review: A Shrektacular Performance

Harry Newton looks back on a fantastic performance by the cast of Shrek the Musical at The Lowry

Review: Guys and Dolls

With a cast and orchestra made up of over 40 members, Gordon Greenberg’s Guys and Dolls comes to Manchester’s Palace Theatre

Review: Barnum

The circus musical is a theatrical experience different from many mainstream musicals, writes Matthew Gormley

Preview: Priscilla Queen of the Desert

Stephanie Scott previews Priscilla Queen of the Desert at The Palace Theatre

Wake me up when the musical ends

Josephine Lane reviews the UK premiere of American Idiot, performed at the Mayflower Theatre, Southampton on October 9th

9 to 5: What a way to spend an evening!

Joshua Val Martin reviews the UK premiere of Dolly Parton’s musical: 9 to 5

‘Moulin Rouge!’

The Cornerhouse re-shows this modern classic

Grease is the word… of the past

Jessie Cohen reviews touring musical Grease after its stop-off at the Palace Theatre last week.