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LADIES’ DAY, Oldham Coliseum, to May 25
AMANDA Whittington’s plays often seem to set off at an enjoyable canter then...
Date Online: 17/05/2013
OMD, Manchester Academy
IT’S been 34 years since OMD released their first single, but on the evidence of this concert,...
Date Online: 14/05/2013
A DOLL’S HOUSE, Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, to June 1
OLIVIER award-nominated actress Cush Jumbo is here united for the...
Date Online: 10/05/2013
The Big Reunion, MEN Arena
The MEN Arena was packed with nostalgia and childhood memories on Saturday night as thousands...
Date Online: 07/05/2013
ABIGAIL’S PARTY, Lowry, Salford
IT makes you wonder what Mike Leigh’s comedy would have been like if Sue, mother of...
Date Online: 30/04/2013
The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, Manchester Opera House
THE difficulty with staging “Little Voice” is attempting to eclipse...
Date Online: 30/04/2013
Halle Orchestra, Bridgewater Hall, Manchester.
A MESMERIC performance by a top pianist was the main treat at Saturday’s penultimate concert...
Date Online: 30/04/2013
OLDHAM Choral Society’s performance of Mozart’s Requiem and Gounod’s Messe Solennelle de Sainte-Cecile at the Royal Northern College of Music...
Date Online: 26/04/2013
CATS, George Lawton Hall, Mossley
THIS Lloyd-Webber show is over 30 years old, which you can tell by the many...
Date Online: 23/04/2013
Rutherford and Son, Lowry, Salford
WHEN this was a major hit, in 1912, it was something of a triumph for...
Date Online: 19/04/2013
BLONDE BOMBSHELLS OF 1943, Coliseum, Oldham
THE world is a slightly sadder place without Alan Plater in it. The late...
Date Online: 19/04/2013
The Full Monty, Lowey, Salford
SIMON Beaufoy rewrites his movie of the famous steelworkers-turned-strippers story for the stage and the...
Date Online: 16/04/2013
Twelfth Night, Lowry
OVER recent years the all-male Propeller company’s founder, Edward Hall, has shown himself to be not only...
Date Online: 12/04/2013
DOC BROWN
The Lowry, Salford
WHEN this rapper reached his thirties clearly he did not foresee he would be making...
Date Online: 09/04/2013
CANNIBALS, Royal Exchange, Manchester
THE Exchange has gone from its record-breaking run of “To Kill a Mockingbird” to this rather...
Date Online: 09/04/2013
Beyond the Rainbow, Bridgewater Hall
JUDY Garland and Liza Minnelli are two of the hardest-ever acts to follow.
But Mary...
Date Online: 19/03/2013
OLDHAM Coliseum has a spring in its step as the company launches its new summer season.
There will be a...
Date Online: 19/03/2013
SUGAR DADDIES, Oldham Coliseum
ALAN Ayckbourn’s dark comedy has waited around almost a decade since its early productions, but who...
Date Online: 15/03/2013
MACK AND MABEL, Ashton Operatic Society at Oldham Coliseum
TRY as I might to like this Jerry Herman/Michael Stewart musical,...
Date Online: 01/03/2013
MOTHER COURAGE, Library Company, Lowry Quays
IT’S not just me, is it? Bertolt Brecht really is the only playwright who...
Date Online: 27/02/2013
Halle Orchestra, Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Splendid ragtime music, big band arrangements and well-known melodies from America featured in Saturday’s Halle’s...
Date Online: 26/02/2013
LAWSON — Manchester Academy
THIS is no ordinary boy band — they sing, they write their own music and they...
Date Online: 26/02/2013
To Kill a Mockingbird, Royal Exchange, Manchester
PERHAPS because it has been a set text for years, or perhaps simply...
Date Online: 26/02/2013
DAVID COPPERFIELD, Oldham Coliseum (to February 23).
A NEW season and an old favourite: Dickens is about tortured lives with...
Date Online: 15/02/2013
NME Awards Tour, Manchester Academy
TO see a decent band for less than £20 is a rare treat.
To pay...
Date Online: 12/02/2013
MAURICE’S JUBILEE Opera House, Manchester
WHAT an unexpected pleasure — especially when you consider the subject is the imminent death...
Date Online: 25/01/2013
THE ACCRINGTON PALS
(Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester)
PETER Whelan’s drama of the “Pals” - Accrington having been the smallest town...
Date Online: 22/01/2013
Halle Orchestra, Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
IF the only attraction was to get away from the wintry weather and be transported...
Date Online: 22/01/2013
Halle Orchestra Christmas concert
FESTIVE hats, reindeer horns, glitter and sparkle revealed a lighter side of the Halle Orchestra as...
Date Online: 28/12/2012
Mumford and Sons, Manchester Arena
SINCE when did folk become fashionable?
Well, since 2009, when stomp-thumping bluegrassers Mumford and Sons...
Date Online: 14/12/2012
