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Reviewer: Iain Sykes The Public Reviews Rating:   This is Hugh Cornwell’s first ever visit to The Lowry and he’s impressed. “Nice place” he says as he looks around from the stage of the Quays Theatre, the complex’s smaller theatre, “spacious yet intimate”. In fact, the perfect space for the former Stranglers frontman to play on this tour [...]

Adapted from the novel ‘The Whisperer’ by Orlando Figes Director: Peter Symonds Reviewer: Clare Boswell The Public Reviews Rating: Direct from the National Theatre, this latest offering from Theatre Unlimited entitled ‘Stalin’s favourite’ sits quite comfortably somewhere between a play and a history lecture. Centred on poet Konstantin Simonov, it tells the story of how his poem ‘Wait [...]

Writer: Happystorm Theatre Director: Sarah Meadows Reviewer: Tracey Lowe The Public Reviews Rating: Following its successful, but all too brief, run at Crypt of St Philip with St Stephen in Salford earlier this year, The Crypt Project finds new life as part of the Re:Play Festival. The concept alone is enough of an audience draw, offering a rare [...]

Reviewer: Tracey Lowe The Public Reviews Rating: Toby Hadoke has done a lot for the Manchester comedy scene, as he runs the famous comedy night, XS Malarkey. But tonight, he brings his 2010 Edinburgh solo show to his former stomping ground, Salford. A sequel to his previous show, Moths Ate My Doctor Who Scarf, this is not so [...]

Writer: Dr David Bramwell Reviewer: Paul Downham The Public Reviews Rating: We are told at the beginning of this show that we the audience would experience a little bit of theatre, some comedy and a lecture complete with slideshow. Not since school had I been to a lecture, but unlike school I thoroughly enjoyed this one! Dr David [...]

Reviewer: Ruth Lovett The Public Reviews Rating: A balmy October evening sees Jonathan Mayor opening for Hal Cruttenden in the warm studio space with a varied audience ready to be entertained. Jonathan is a mixed race Indian White man who is as camp as Christmas and twice as glittery and in fact very funny. A local lad (although [...]

Writer: John van der Put Reviewer: Paul Downham The Public Reviews Rating: John van der Put, the current Magic Circle Close Up Magician of the Year has created a character in Piff the Magic Dragon that appeals to both children and adults alike, but be warned Piff does not do children’s’ parties! All the advertising for this ‘PIFF-TACULAR [...]

Books are everywhere at the moment. The Guardian have started their big autumn book swap, literature’s heavyweights are battling it out for the Man Booker Prize and the lauded, star-packed adaptation of John le Carre’s Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy has hit the nation’s cinemas. Theatre is in on the literary action too, with this week’s [...]