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SNOOKERED, (UCO Studio)
ISHY Din will not be a name known to theatregoers, but just wait!
The Tamasha Theatre/Coliseum joint...
Date Online: 06/02/2012
The Friday Thing: FORGET maths, English and history.
Some schools (probably most of them) have been signing pupils up for...
Date Online: 03/02/2012
KATHERINE JENKINS, Bridgewater Hall, Manchester.
IT is easy to see why this record-breaking, multi-platinum selling mezzo-soprano has quickly become one...
Date Online: 02/02/2012
OLIVER!, Palace, Manchester, to March 10
POOR Lionel Bart: his tragedy was that he wrote about 20 songs that stand...
Date Online: 02/02/2012
‘Beauty and the Beast’, Lowry, Salford
Birmingham Royal Ballet calls on such a pool of dance and production talent, from...
Date Online: 25/01/2012
TWO, Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester
Just as Walter Greenwood documented the bleak existence of lower-class living in Love on the...
Date Online: 24/01/2012
Halle Orchestra, Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
THE Halle played host to one of the world’s finest classical guitarists as Beijing-born Xuefei...
Date Online: 23/01/2012
THE FRIDAY THING
THIS New Year’s Eve there was more than usual resonance to the passage of time at least...
Date Online: 06/01/2012
New Year Celebration, the Halle Orchestra, Bridgewater Hall, Manchester.
IF there is one thing guaranteed to lift the spirits and...
Date Online: 04/01/2012
Sounds of the 70s, Halle Orchestra, Bridgewater Hall
YOU always expect 70s nights to be fun, but this concert was...
Date Online: 03/01/2012
THE FRIDAY THING: IT’S probably not the best time of year to ask, but how’s the weight today?
Couldn’t face...
Date Online: 30/12/2011
Bond and Beyond, Halle Orchestra, Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
TOP-CLASS musicians teamed up with the versatile vocals of Mary Carewe to...
Date Online: 30/12/2011
The Halle’s Christmas Cracker, Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
THIS latest festive offering from the splendid Halle Orchestra was just the ticket...
Date Online: 28/12/2011
Saddleworth Male Voice Choir performed Handel’s Messiah to a full-house at Uppermill Civic Hall.
For those wanting a traditional large-scale...
Date Online: 21/12/2011
Halle Orchestra, Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
A MIX of the traditional and the new formed the basis of this year’s Christmas...
Date Online: 19/12/2011
Russian Classics, Halle Orchestra, Bridgewater Hall, Manchester.
IF this exciting concert from the Halle’s Christmas and New Year programme is...
Date Online: 16/12/2011
THE FRIDAY THING: RECENT warnings from me that the health lot’s declaration of open war on smokers would lead to...
Date Online: 16/12/2011
SCROOGE, Lowry, Salford (to January 7)
REAL royalty one week, stage royalty the next. Tommy Steele takes over the Lowry...
Date Online: 14/12/2011
You Can’t Take it With You, Royal Exchange, Manchester
Royal Exchange Christmas productions have a bit of a reputation for...
Date Online: 13/12/2011
I CAN’T say I’ve ever seen a lead singer face a barrage of shoes being launched at the stage mid-song....
Date Online: 09/12/2011
AFTER the disappointment of last year’s “Snow White”, when two performers damaged the show badly but one managed by his...
Date Online: 08/12/2011
THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS, Library Company, Lowry
I HAVE reviewed several versions of this Alan Bennett, Kenneth Grahame-derived show...
Date Online: 07/12/2011
HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL, George Lawton Hall, Mossley
MOSSLEY AODS’s Next Generation youth company has had some startling successes in recent...
Date Online: 06/12/2011
The Wild Wild West, Bridgewater Hall, Manchester.
THE Halle Orchestra took a canter through the ages of the Western in...
Date Online: 05/12/2011
DICK WHITTINGTON, Oldham Coliseum (to January 14)
DICK comes from Oldham, his vessel is the good ship Metrolink, (which sinks,...
Date Online: 28/11/2011
Dirty Dancing, Palace, Manchester, to January 7
IT has the moves, it has the almost-lookalikes, it has the famous scenes...
Date Online: 25/11/2011
Peter Hook and The Light, The Castle
PETER Hook has recently come under some flak with his band The Light...
Date Online: 17/11/2011
A Christmas Carol, as told by Jacob Marley (Deceased), Oldham Coliseum
IT’S that time of year when young and old...
Date Online: 16/11/2011
Ruddigore, Lowry, Salford
OPERA North returns to Salford for a winter season of popular repeats - this work and the...
Date Online: 16/11/2011
THEY have been navel gazing again at Saddleworth Parish Council, although what they expect to find apart from a ball...
Date Online: 28/10/2011
