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Wanted is a slam-bang thriller based on the comic book series about a brotherhood of gun-toting...
Date Online: 26/06/2008
SHAW will be stepping back in time to the swinging Sixties for a weekend of family fun....
Date Online: 03/07/2008
Show is a wonder, and in many ways
Oldham Coliseum
ONE of the region’s most venerable and lauded young people’s theatre...
Date Online: 23/07/2008
REVIEW: AFRIKA AFRIKA (Trafford Centre)
THE evening begins with a chap whose body is a whole lot bendier than it...
Date Online: 24/07/2008
Think Tchaikovsky... but on a trampoline
YOU might not think “Swan Lake” normally comes with trampolinists, wire walkers, jugglers and...
Date Online: 31/07/2008
NOW in their 16th year, Tatton Park summer concerts are an absolute joy to take part in.
From loading the...
Date Online: 04/08/2008
ALAN BENNETT can generally do no wrong, but he certainly managed it with this prophetic but unnerving 1980s comedy.
He...
Date Online: 02/09/2008
“BRASSED OFF”
(Oldham Coliseum)
Review by Paul Genty
IF you haven’t already booked for this opening show of the Coliseum’s...
Date Online: 08/09/2008
“TONY AND TWIZZLE, THE GLORY YEARS”
(Lowry Quays)
I JUST don’t get it. Lip Service — Manchester-based writers and performers...
Date Online: 10/09/2008
THERE are two things, in my experience, that you should never do to a teenager.
The first is embarrass him/her...
Date Online: 10/09/2008
Oldham’s Lyceum Players kicked off their new season with this Noel Coward comedy — one of five plays picked from...
Date Online: 22/09/2008
The Waves (Lowry Quays)
LIKE the real thing on a choppy day, this stage realisation of Virginia Woolf’s experimental novel...
Date Online: 24/09/2008
YOU have to feel sorry for Vernon, don’t you? I almost cried when he sat there waiting for Liz to...
Date Online: 24/09/2008
YOU CAN SEE THE HILLS (Royal Exchange Studio, Manchester)
DOES posterity work like statistical charts, where the best and worst...
Date Online: 26/09/2008
CAN’T SMILE WITHOUT YOU, Palace, Manchester
ANYWAY, I’ve got this idea for a musical: I’m calling it “My Old Man’s...
Date Online: 30/09/2008
LOVE and hate, passion and tragedy breathe life once again into the special 50th anniversary production of West Side Story....
Date Online: 01/10/2008
THERE is something exhilarating about making a discovery. Exhilarating and reassuring. Not that I’m prone to making earth-shattering discoveries like...
Date Online: 01/10/2008
I COULD be mistaken here but I have a feeling you are going to like learning about this skill.
I’m...
Date Online: 06/10/2008
CABARET
Palace Theatre, Manchester, by Paul Genty
THERE are some shows you expect not to like but end up loving,...
Date Online: 07/10/2008
What Kati Did Next
by Kati Williamson
Romance isn’t dead.
Or is it? No, not in our house. At least I...
Date Online: 07/10/2008
THERE are two ways you can react to the ever-growing juggernaut which is political correctness.
You can embrace it as...
Date Online: 13/10/2008
“TRAVELS WITH MY AUNT” Oldham Coliseum, by Paul Genty
GRAHAM GREENE isn’t the first writer you think of when comedy...
Date Online: 13/10/2008
Travelling the road to success
Gig of the week — The Travelling Band
Where? The Railway, Greenfield, Saddleworth
When? Sunday,...
Date Online: 14/10/2008
THE WITCHES OF EASTWICK
(Opera House, Manchester)
ORIGINALLY presented in London with a bigger set, more magic effects, a starrier cast...
Date Online: 14/10/2008
LARGER-than-life Welsh singing star Bryn Terfel filled the Bridgewater Hall last night not only with an avid audience, but with...
Date Online: 15/10/2008
TO be honest, there have been some pretty awful productions of this most reworked of ballets.
It’s hardly surprising, for...
Date Online: 15/10/2008
ALL things considered, I’ve led a pretty uneventful life. As I fast approach my two score years and 15, I...
Date Online: 15/10/2008
Halle, Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
SATURDAY’S concert was titled “Wild Wild West,” and it couldn’t have been more apt.
From the very...
Date Online: 20/10/2008
THE ART OF BEING UNFORTUNATE
THERE’S a thing in this world called fortune.
It’s generally thought to favour the brave...
Date Online: 20/10/2008
I don’t wish to alienate half my readers but I fear I’m about to.
Big Cook, Little Cook.
See? I...
Date Online: 21/10/2008
