Date Reviewed: 25th March, 2009
Venue: The Library Theatre

Performed in an uninterrupted 90 minutes, Frank McGuinness’s play, Gates of Gold, grabs your attention with its opening lines and takes you on a wonderfully tragi-comic journey with a relentless ease. (more…)

Ballet fans can rejoice as The Lowry leave you spoilt for choice, with Pomp and Circumstances (a triple bill consisting of three short ballets Serenade/Enigma Variations/‘Still Life’ at the Penguin Café) and Sylvia – two Birmingham Royal Ballet programmes running from 31 March – 4 April. (more…)

Date Reviewed: 25th March, 2009
Venue: The Lowry

Following a successful West End run, Kneehigh Theatre’s highly acclaimed production of Brief Encounter has arrived in Salford. Emma Rice’s adaptation presents this classic and popular love story from 1945 via a hybrid of dialogue, song and black and while film clips. (more…)

Date Reviewed: 24th March, 2009
Venue: The Lowry

The latest production from Opera Della Luna is HMS Pinafore. Although excellent in parts the various elements do not always combine to give a satisfying whole. Director Jeff Clark is respectful of the source material but does not hesitate to make cuts to the text nor to mock the comic opera itself. (more…)

Date Reviewed: 24th March, 2009
Venue: Opera House

As the hauntingly beautiful music played on a low whistle echoes across an almost empty stage, and the deep voice of John Kavanagh flows across the audience, the scene is set for what turns out to be a foot-stompingly good evening’s entertainment. (more…)