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IT'S exactly 50 years since a teenager from Salford sent her first play to the maverick theatrical genius Joan Littlewood. Read more…

CURRENTLY celebrating almost a quarter century of being at the cutting edge of British cutting edge theatre, Sheffield-based creative collective Forced Entertainment have been regular visitors to the right side of the Pennines during much of that time and they return now with their new two-hander. Read more…

IT’S salutary that English National Ballet are bringing Kenneth MacMillan’s great ballet creation, Manon, to Manchester this week. Read more…

NEVER as universally popular as The Sound Of Music or South Pacific, the slightly less sugary Carousel is nevertheless one of the great Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals and this rare professional revival could do much to push it up the ratings. Read more…

SHORT of dividing a kingdom between your daughters, there really isn’t much the serious theatre fan shouldn’t consider doing in order to lay their hands on one of the precious tickets for this brilliant version of Lear. Read more…

I SAW my first Martin McDonagh play standing in a windy Heaton Park in the driving rain and I was hooked. The weather seemed appropriate for his quirky, black humour heavily laced with macabre cruelty. Read more…

A CENTURY ago, Annie Horniman changed the face of British theatre by establishing this country’s first-ever repertory theatre here in Manchester, initially at the Midland Hotel then at the Gaiety Theatre. Read more…
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THIS touring production comes from London Classic Theatre, a company that has established an increasingly decent reputation in its seven years of existence. Read more…

I MUST have seen this popular musical at least seven times and yet there's something relentlessly cheerful about it that makes leaving your cosy fireside to brave the elements and parking problems, seem all worth while. Read more…