Far From Home Close To Love @ The Kings Arms review – Life affirming exploration of loneliness
Featured image: Benjamin Kelm Benjamin Kelm explores the highs and lows of migration in his uplifting one-man…
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Bonnie & Clyde @ The Palace Theatre, Manchester review – It’s the American dream, sugar
Featured image: Mark Waugh The tale of two kids from small-town America who became the most notorious…
The Laramie Project @ Manchester School of Theatre review – exceptional talent and attentiveness
Manchester School of Theatre (MST) approached The Laramie Project with exceptional talent and attentiveness to the sensitive…
The Great Waking Up! The writing world responds to the climate emergency at Manchester Poetry Library
Featured image: Manchester Poetry Library As the weather changed from hail to sunshine for the fifth time…
Award-winning poet Susie Wilson: “You’re being your poetic self more than your medical self”
Featured image: Nelly Naylor May marks skin cancer awareness month and according to Cancer Research UK, nine…
An Officer And A Gentleman The Musical @ Manchester Opera House review – an 80s neon fever dream
Based on Douglas Day Stewarts’ hit 80s romance, An Officer and A Gentleman takes to the Manchester Opera House stage to transport us into a timeless story of love, courage and redemption. This Curve production is a neon sensation of retro hits and escapism.
Netflix review: Baby Reindeer – A misunderstood masterpiece?
The latest series to take Netflix by storm is the real-life story of Scottish comedian Richard Gadd. Baby Reindeer documents Gadd’s encounter with previously convicted stalker "Martha Scott", detailing the disturbing series of events that would culminate in her eventual imprisonment.
20 Year Party People: Photography exhibition documenting Manchester’s party scene launches at Station South
Featured image: Anna Klekot Following the success of their inaugural show as a duo at New Cross…
Is This Thing On? @ Contact Theatre review – raw, outstanding and heartwarming
Featured image: Aaron Shaw ‘Is This Thing On?’ is a unique debut show, a product of the…
The FRESHERS Issue 24/25: Call for print submissions – Get involved with your student magazine
Featured image: aAh! In each print issue, aAh! Magazine explores one word which runs as its theme.…
Is This Thing On: Feminist theatre with a twist comes to Contact
Featured image: So La Flair Theatre Ellie Campbell and Megan Keaveney graduated last year from Manchester Theatre…
How music shaped last year’s stand-out cinema
It’s been just over one month since the Oscars marked the end of another awards season. Musical performances from all the artists nominated for this year’s ‘Best Original Song’ were interspersed throughout the show, including a moment of virality from a pink-clad Ryan Gosling and his vanguard of 65 Kens. From original scores to compilation soundtracks, 2023 saw the true matrimony of sound and vision. Here are a few of the highlights.
Pretty Woman @ The Palace Theatre – palm trees, leg warmers and curly perms
Photography: The Palace Theatre Based on one of Hollywood’s most beloved rom coms, the travelling tour of…
Peter Pan Goes Wrong @ Manchester Opera House – an awfully big adventure
Photography: Manchester Opera House Somehow, the Cornley Drama Society managed to book yet another production in Manchester,…
The LEGACY Issue: Danny Boyle works with SODA students – the next generation of digital creatives
Featured image: Bradley Sansom From hosting the 2023-24 Métiers d’art Chanel show, to being chosen as the…