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Roald Dahl’s The Witches: “Wonderfully nostalgic but also fresh and original”

Roald Dahl’s The Witches: “Wonderfully nostalgic but also fresh and original”

The National Theatre’s stage musical adaptation of The Witches is fun for all the family, or even childless millennials and zoomers who grew up with the book and/or the film
Review: Museum of Austerity – An expert guide to understanding hardship

Review: Museum of Austerity – An expert guide to understanding hardship

Museum of Austerity is an evocative and immersive experience, revealing the harsh truths behind Conservative-led England.
Review: The Crucible

Review: The Crucible

The Crucible is a must-see morality play bolstered by superb performances and a fresh take on a modern classic
Review: The Ocean at the End of the Lane

Review: The Ocean at the End of the Lane

The stage adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s The Ocean at the End of the Lane, which is currently having its regional premiere at The Lowry, is a fantastic, fantastical exploration of family
Review: Hex

Review: Hex

Cursed musical Hex returns to the National Theatre, after its original run ended without a press night (amidst numerous other problems), starring Victoria Hamilton-Barritt
The Lowry claims its canal is an ocean

The Lowry claims its canal is an ocean

The Ocean at the End of the Lane, the National Theatre play based on the Neil Gaiman novel of the same name, has its Regional Premiere at The Lowry
The Ocean at the End of the Lane: In conversation with Eleri B. Jones

The Ocean at the End of the Lane: In conversation with Eleri B. Jones

Eleri B. Jones, a former UoM student and the Resident Director of The Ocean at The End of the Lane, talks to The Mancunion, ahead of the play’s regional premiere at The Lowry
Manchester Opera House invites the Curious

Manchester Opera House invites the Curious

Based on the best-selling novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time plays at Manchester Opera House
Preview: National Youth Theatre Auditions

Preview: National Youth Theatre Auditions

The NYT are holding auditions for young people, aged 14-25, at the Royal Exchange Theatre in February and March
The Fleabag Effect

The Fleabag Effect

Ella Marsden reviews a live-broadcast of Fleabag and asks how the success of the TV show has affected the stage version
Review: National Theatre Live’s ‘Antony and Cleopatra’

Review: National Theatre Live’s ‘Antony and Cleopatra’

It was an “evening full of laughs, action and breath-taking tragedy”
Review: National Theatre’s ‘Macbeth’

Review: National Theatre’s ‘Macbeth’

Jess Johnstone reviews the National Theatre’s touring version of Macbeth

Review: Amadeus

London’s National Theatre comes to Manchester’s HOME, first class entertainment at a Northern price

Review: Husbands & Sons

Marianne Elliot brings a cocktail of DH Lawrence’s greats with Husbands & Sons to the Royal Exchange Theatre

Review: We Want You To Watch

Commissioned by the National Theatre, Alice Birch and RashDash’s Abbi Greenland and Helen Goalen bring their ‘We Want You To Watch’ to Salford’s Lowry

Culture Shock

Cuts to culture are set to only get worse in the new government. Catherine Sargent studies whether they’re set to go too far.