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The Gallery of Costume

Just behind the neon billboards of the Curry Mile, South Manchester’s answer to the Las Vegas Strip, lies a reinvigorated national treasure. Hidden behind a bus stop and opposite a car wash, The Manchester Gallery of Costume is a bizarrely located cultural gem. [Full Article]

Beautiful House

The ever popular Library Theatre’s latest production, about a couple moving house to a tower block so that their terminally ill daughter may live with her husband in her childhood home in peace, played out to a packed and anticipatory audience in what is the company’s last season at the Central Library in St. Peter’s Square . [Full Article]

Room Temperature Romance

Room Temperature Romance, performed by Levantes Dance Theatre, combines video, theatre and dance with flamboyant costume and suggestive audio. [Full Article]

Crying in the Chapel

This year, Contact Theatre celebrates its tenth anniversary with a series of special events and performances of plays premiered when it was in its infancy. [Full Article]

PREVIEW- 'Pirates of Penzance' at RNCM

Student Direct: Mancunion caught up with Ian Field and Grahame Jebb, Co-Directors, and Michael Betteridge, Musical Director, of Manchester University’s Gilbert & Sullivan Society latest production, The Pirates of Penzance. [Full Article]

PREVIEW- 'Crying in the Chapel' at Contact Theatre

On April 1, 1990, something extraordinary happened in the city of Manchester, something so extraordinary that it threw the British penal system into disarray. [Full Article]

THEATRE- The 39 Steps

As the curtain lifted in the already fog filled auditorium, what else could be expected but a fantastic tale of assassination and espionage? [Full Article]

BALLET- Magia de la Danza

Ballet Nacional de Cuba expertly performed excerpts from seven different ballets, showcasing the best the country has to offer to a packed and varied audience. Magia gave an excellent introduction to ballet, performing a wide spectrum of performance styles in the various pieces. [Full Article]

THEATRE- Knife Edge

Knife Edge opens with expectancy and promise. As the audience walks into a completely bare and sparsely lit studio theatre, we are left wondering exactly when this ‘show’ is going to begin. [Full Article]

'Way Out West, the Sea Whispered Me' at The Greenroom

Presented by Chicago based duo Cupola Bobber Way Out West, the Sea Whispered Me was a truly wonderful piece of performance. In this hour long production the male twosome embarked on a beautifully nostalgic and humorous adventure, exploring their relationship with the Sea as one which is universal. [Full Article]

Jim Cartwright's 'The Road'

As I entered the Ram & Shackle (a student pub many are familiar with) I was seized by a brief moment of panic, had I got the wrong day? [Full Article]

The Odd Couple

The Odd Couple delivered a spectacularly funny and satirical performance which reduced the student audience to fits of laughter- and in doing so showcased the vast array of talented actresses the university has so tantalisingly kept stashed away. [Full Article]

13 Objects

Step into a dark corridor. From the ceiling hundreds of 'ordinary objects' are suspended: a wellington boot, an alarm clock, the neck of a guitar. Sit down and watch Howard Barker's exploration of the extraordinariness that can be found in the mundane. Thirteen self-contained plays each examine one ordinary object with a quite unordinary story. [Full Article]

The Odyssey

I would have thought that adaptations of Homeric epics and low budgets go together like chicken and ice-cream, but having seen Troy, this minimalist student version of The Odyssey looked extremely attractive. [Full Article]

For Him

For Him’s opening monologue began in an intriguing and subtle way. [Full Article]

The Dispute

Pierre Marivaux’s 18th century play, The Dispute, is a fascinating study of the human condition and the psychology behind desire. This darkly comic drama presents the struggle with conflicting emotions of love which finally erupts into jealousy, greed and anger. [Full Article]

Traces

With its urban set design and grungy colours, the strange stage space confronting the audience seems perfect for hosting an updated, ‘street’ version of circus acrobatics. [Full Article]

Lots of Laughs comedy night

There’s always a feeling of anxiety before attending a comedy night. You wonder whether the comedians will be good, bad, cruel, boring, crazy, the list can go on, but you certainly hope that they make you laugh. [Full Article]

Raise Your Voice Collective

Ex-Manchester Uni students get together and make their musical talents known in an intimate communal downstairs of a Northern Quarter watering hole: Centro Bar. [Full Article]

Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake

Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake is a modern adaptation of one of the world’s most famous and best loved ballets. Winner of 30 international theatre awards, Bourne’s ballet has been running since 1995, amazing audiences with its infamous flock of male swans. [Full Article]

Mahler in Manchester 2010

To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the birth of Gustav Mahler, multi-million pound venue Bridgewater Hall has been putting on all ten of his well lived symphonies by all three resident orchestras, the Hallé, BBC Philharmonic and Manchester Camerata. [Full Article]

1984

The Royal Exchange in-the-round stage gives a claustrophobic, modern edged feel to Matthew Dunster’s sensual, edgy and shocking adaptation of George Orwell’s classic 1984. [Full Article]

Ghost Boy

In a surrealist, Magic Roundabout-esque melange of artistry, Ghost Boy’s experimental mix of dubstep, grime, ska, puppetry, hip-hop theatre, street art, dance, and comedy effectively creates a challenging and wholly absorbing piece of contemporary theatre. [Full Article]

My Life In Arts with Kim Rugg

Kim Rugg is a Canadian born artist, living and working in London. Her latest work is on show at Castlefield Gallery as part of her two person show with artist Leo Fitzmaurice. [Full Article]