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Review: Once on This Island

Review: Once on This Island

Once on This Island is an interesting and intelligent racial reimagining of The Little Mermaid – with gorgeous costumes and majestic lighting but a disappointing set (or lack thereof)
Review: Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma!

Review: Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma!

Daniel Fish’s radical reimagining of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! is ambitious, intelligent, and (intentionally) unenjoyable
Live review: Samantha Barks at Theatre Royal Drury Lane

Live review: Samantha Barks at Theatre Royal Drury Lane

Musical theatre icon Samantha Barks performed a superb solo concert at Theatre Royal Drury Lane – where she usually plays Elsa in Frozen
Live review: Carrie Hope Fletcher at The Lowry

Live review: Carrie Hope Fletcher at The Lowry

Carrie Hope Fletcher, the biggest West End star right now, dropped by The Lowry as part of her first ever UK tour
Review: Dirty Dancing

Review: Dirty Dancing

Dirty Dancing is a timeless classic revived
Palace Theatre Manchester offers you the time of your life

Palace Theatre Manchester offers you the time of your life

Dirty Dancing returns to the Palace Theatre as part of its UK tour, after a smash-hit residency in the West End
Musicals of Manchester: June

Musicals of Manchester: June

Find out what musicals are coming to Manchester this June!
Samantha Barks is on her own at Theatre Royal Drury Lane

Samantha Barks is on her own at Theatre Royal Drury Lane

Samantha Barks will perform a solo concert at Theatre Royal Drury Lane – where she stars in the cast of Frozen
The Lowry welcomes old friends for a night of devotion, desire and Dancing Queens

The Lowry welcomes old friends for a night of devotion, desire and Dancing Queens

The Way Old Friends Do, a play about the first ABBA tribute band in drag, visits The Lowry as part of its UK tour
Carrie Hope Fletcher is pulled back to The Lowry

Carrie Hope Fletcher is pulled back to The Lowry

Carrie Hope Fletcher is ‘pulled’ back to The Lowry as part of her first ever UK tour, An Open Book
Review: Greatest Days

Review: Greatest Days

Greatest Days, which is based on the music of Take That and stars Kym Marsh, is perhaps the greatest jukebox musical out there
Review: The SpongeBob Musical

Review: The SpongeBob Musical

The SpongeBob Musical, starring Tom Read Wilson, Divina de Campo, and Hannah Lowther, is better than anyone could possibly predict!
Review: The King & I

Review: The King & I

The King and I is a sumptuous delight and daringly sociopolitical
Dean John-Wilson on theatre representation, social media, and vocal coaching

Dean John-Wilson on theatre representation, social media, and vocal coaching

The Mancunion sits down with West End star Dean John-Wilson, who is currently starring in the UK tour of The King and I – his first time on the road in 12 years
Review: Michael Rosen’s Unexpected Twist – An Oliver Twisted Tale

Review: Michael Rosen’s Unexpected Twist – An Oliver Twisted Tale

Michael Rosen’s Unexpected Twist beatboxes new life into Oliver Twist – but, like Oliver himself, it leaves me asking for more
Greatest Days: In conversation with Rachel Marwood

Greatest Days: In conversation with Rachel Marwood

The Mancunion sits down with Rachel Marwood ahead of the UK tour of Greatest Days, the official Take That musical
Head over to Palace Theatre Manchester for a night you will Never Forget

Head over to Palace Theatre Manchester for a night you will Never Forget

Greatest Days, starring Kym Marsh, is visiting Palace Theatre Manchester as part of its UK tour, coinciding with the release of the film and marking 30 years since Take That’s first number 1 single
Spongebob swims into Opera House Manchester

Spongebob swims into Opera House Manchester

The Spongebob Musical comes to Opera House Manchester as part of its first ever UK tour, starring Tom Read Wilson, Divina de Campo and Hannah Lowther
Palace Theatre Manchester invites you to dance

Palace Theatre Manchester invites you to dance

Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The King and I returns to Manchester, this time playing the Palace Theatre, as part of its UK tour – starring Annalene Beechey and Darren Lee
Musicals of Manchester: May

Musicals of Manchester: May

Find out what musicals are coming to Manchester this May!