Entertainment

The Far Field

1st December 2017 | By nq_admin

Review: Future Islands are captivating at the o2 Apollo

Any gig at Manchester’s o2 Apollo is destined to be a special one. With it’s grand interiors, sloping floor, a prominently cheery Mancunian crowd… and...

The Best in Stand Up - The Comedy Store

30th November 2017 | By nq_admin

The Best in Stand-up @ The Comedy Store

The Comedy Store, Manchester. The iconic venue, located under the famous old arches in Deansgate Locks, greets you with its glowing circular stamp hallmarking its...

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29th November 2017 | By nq_admin

Review: Elf the Musical at The Lowry

Sequins, snow, the North Pole and a whole lot of singing, what more do you want from a musical? Based on the wonderful 2003 hit...

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29th November 2017 | By nq_admin

Review: Beat the Frog

Gaining the confidence to put yourself on stage, in front of a crowd of strangers and attempting to make them laugh, for me, would be...

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28th November 2017 | By nq_admin

Review: Gok Wan Naked and Baring All at The Lowry

From growing up on a Leicester council estate, to to becoming one of the country’s most recognised faces, Gok Wan has had a career that...

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27th November 2017 | By nq_admin

Review: Man on the Moon at Manchester’s Contact Theatre

Looking at the dynamics of the father-daughter relationship that Keisha has with her father, Keisha shows us the multiple influences or barriers to them understanding...

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25th November 2017 | By nq_admin

Review: Liza Pulman Sings Streisand

Singer, actor and one-third of cabaret group Fascinating Aida, Liza Pulman is on the road with her new show that honours the legendary icon Barbra Streisand....

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24th November 2017 | By nq_admin

Review: The Head Wrap Diaries at Contact Theatre

Uchenna Dance present an uplifting blend of dance, theatre, great music, a good dose of humour and … hair stories The piece was devised in...

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22nd November 2017 | By nq_admin

Review: Cilla the Musical at the Palace Theatre Manchester

Based on the hit television series, Bill Kenwrght and Laurie Mansfield present BAFTA Award winning Jeff Pope’s Cilla’s the Musical. A star of the charts...

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21st November 2017 | By nq_admin

Review: WOKE at the Royal Exchange Theatre

The Oxford English Dictionary defines Woke as originally meaning well-informed and up-to-date. But nowadays, alert to racial or social discrimination and injustice. It’s through a...

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19th November 2017 | By nq_admin

Review: Les Misérables School Edition at Liverpool’s Epstein Theatre

Now, Les Misérables is a musical very close to my heart, after performing in two productions of the musical, I think I know all the...

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18th November 2017 | By nq_admin

Review: Cheryl Martin: Who Wants to Live Forever? at Contact Theatre

One woman’s life-long love for Billie Holiday’s music, for the stars, and for her lost baby brother. Who Wants To Live Forever? is about camping...

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17th November 2017 | By nq_admin

Contact Theatre closes its doors for 2018

The Contact theatre will close the doors of its iconic Oxford Road building at the end of December 2017 ahead of a major £6.75million capital...

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16th November 2017 | By nq_admin

Review: Manchester School Of Theatre present Picnic

Never has a play had me so consistently on the verge of tears – both from laughter and from hard-hitting raw emotion. Yet, once the...

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16th November 2017 | By nq_admin

Review: Medusa at The Lowry

Proper Job Theatre’s performance of Medusa casts a light on everything we’ve been afraid to talk about, until now. Writer Helen Mort creates an entirely...

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15th November 2017 | By nq_admin

Review: The Killers at Manchester Arena

A sea of old and young filtered into the Manchester Arena on a chilly November evening to watch Las Vegas born rock band The Killers...

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14th November 2017 | By Tom Green

Review: The War on Drugs at O2 Apollo Manchester

The War on Drugs have visited Manchester so many times over the past nine years that they apparently now have their own favourite café where...

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14th November 2017 | By nq_admin

Review: Milky Chance @ O2 Ritz, Manchester

As one girl in the audience shouts naively in to her friend’s ear, “EVERY BAND NEEDS A HARMONICA”, it sums up perfectly the experience of...

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10th November 2017 | By dave porter

Review: Uncle Vanya at Home

Who would have thought that Chekhov could be so funny? Probably not Chekhov himself, though Australian playwright Andrew Upton obviously sees the comic potential to...

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10th November 2017 | By Tom Green

Review: Wolf Alice at O2 Apollo Manchester

It’s been quite a while since I’ve been to see a band for the first time. As boring as it sounds, I do tend to...