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Reviewer: Tracey Lowe The Public Reviews Rating: Edward Aczel has had his fair share of exposure in the comedy world. He featured one of Jimmy Carr’s DVDs and won the Malcolm Hardee award in 2008. Unfortunately tonight the comedy-savvy of the Greater Manchester area have flocked to Russell Kane, who played in the larger Lowry theatre the same [...]

Writer/Director: Geaorge Mann Co-devisors: Kim Heron, George Mann and Deborah Pugh Music: Kim Heron and George Mann Reviewer: Jo Beggs The Public Reviews Rating: Following last year’s extraordinary The Big Smoke, Theatre Ad Infinitum were again the talk of the Edinburgh Fringe. After a month at the Pleasance Dome they bring Translunar Paradise, a very different but equally [...]

Reviewer: Poppy Helm The Public Reviews Rating: The Slippery Belle’s Burlesque! shows run in Leeds, Manchester and Huddersfield every month, presenting a changing cast of singers, dancers, magicians and acrobats. Tonight the naughtiness comes to an unrecognisable Quays Theatre transformed into a hazy cabaret bar. With the mysterious absence of the billed compere, ‘lesbian vampire queen, Rosie Lugosi’, [...]

Reviewer: Paul Downham The Public Reviews Rating: Girl Talk – I Am Woman consists of 3 women, 3 bar stools and a piano expertly played by birthday boy (yesterday) Adrian York, all staged in what I think is the best intimate venue in the North West (Quays Theatre). The show is a light hearted night of humour and [...]

Writer/Director: Oliver Lansley Reviewer: Poppy Helm The Public Reviews Rating: Les Enfants Terribles are no strangers to praise from the critics; the flyers advertising their latest tour, The Infant, are plastered with four and five star reviews. It’s a shame then that the word hasn’t spread to the people of Salford – the audience this evening may be [...]

Producer: Handshake Ltd. Guest vocalists: Sally Johnson & Sean Ruane Reviewer: Jo Beggs The Public Reviews Rating: If this is a celebration of some of classical music’s greatest hits, you have to wonder why the producers of this National Symphony Orchestra Britfest, billed as “a wonderful way to celebrate the year of the Royal Wedding”, feel the need [...]

Reviewer: Ian Winterton The Public Reviews Rating: “Gilbert!” shouts some wag in the audience the second Greg Davies walks on stage, in reference to Mr. Gilbert, the teacher he plays in Channel 4’s The Inbetweeners. Whether or not Davies somewhat unbelievable assertion that no-one has ever done that to him before at a gig, the truth is that, [...]

Choreography: Itzik Galili & Stephen Petronio Music: Steve Reich, Percossa, Son Lux Reviewer: Jo Beggs The Public Reviews Rating: Romance Inverse bursts onto the stage, setting the high-octane tone for the evening. Female dancers, clad in black, are hidden and revealed between square black panels, animated by male dancers. The panels in turn create a maze, a backdrop, [...]