March 7th, 2010Charlotte Newson is a Manchester-based artist who has been commissioned by the City Council to produce a portrait of the suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst. [Full Article]
March 7th, 2010Passionate, inspiring and professional, the University of Manchester Symphony Orchestra presented a rousing portrayal of nineteenth-century music, with a newly commissioned work by PhD student David Onac showing that compositional mastery still lives on. [Full Article]
March 7th, 2010Few orchestras can combine the music of 20th century giants like the BBC Philharmonic. Coming from various backgrounds, the night was an exploration of the dexterity and skill needed to play these works. [Full Article]
March 7th, 2010Opera North exceeded all expectations with their first class production of Puccini’s celebrated opera, La Bohème. [Full Article]
March 7th, 2010Steve Gullick, probably the world’s finest music photographer and a name you’re familiar with if you’ve ever read NME. [Full Article]
March 4th, 2010The Hallé’s Russian Masterpieces concert brilliantly displayed some of the countries greatest musicians, linking them under the banner of nationalism and romanticism. [Full Article]
March 4th, 2010Set during World War II, Dennis Potter’s Blue Remembered Hills follows a group of seven-year-olds one summer afternoon as they play in the forest of Dean, but their childish games turn sour as one child, Donald, is accidentally burnt to death in a fire. [Full Article]
March 1st, 2010Critically acclaimed for their comedic talent, Opera della Luna do not disappoint in their dazzlingly witty and utterly refreshing production of Die Fledermaus. [Full Article]
March 1st, 2010Franz Schubert’s Winterreise (literally ‘Winter Journey’), completed in 1827 is considered by many to be the pinnacle of the song-cycle genre containing some of the greatest German lieder ever written. [Full Article]
March 1st, 2010David Mackintosh is a British artist, working in the North West of England since 1990. His work has been exhibited throughout Europe and America and he has had major solo exhibitions in London and Bristol. His work encompasses drawing, painting, sculpture and performance. His last show, ‘The Edge of Things’ enjoyed a successful run at Cornerhouse this winter, where viewers caught sight of his characteristic minimalist penwork and gouache works. [Full Article]
March 1st, 2010Rejecting the preconception that wallpaper is nothing more than a backdrop, The Walls Are Talking collects work from over 30 international artists. Much of the work on display is dark, examining themes of subversion, commodification, imprisonment and sexuality [Full Article]
March 1st, 2010Arts Editor Christina Gregory caught up with Sarah Manning, second year art history student and co-curator of the (R)Evolution of Urban Art exhibition currently on at Warrington Museum [Full Article]
March 1st, 2010There are some who would argue that we are surrounded by so much information that we have now become oblivious to it, yet how is this related to an art exhibition you ask? Well, the latest exhibition at Castlefield Gallery demonstrates mass produced pieces of media in an alternate manner by the artists Leo Fitzmaurice and Kim Rugg in this two-person show. [Full Article]
February 25th, 2010Lock up your sons, daughters, and anyone with easily offended sensibilities - Zoo has welcomed back its fortnightly comedy evening, Slap & Giggle, in barnstorming style [Full Article]
February 22nd, 2010Scattered is the latest production from Motionhouse, a company renowned for its highly physical performances. The piece follows seven dancers as they travel from the North Pole to the South, experiencing and interacting with different water processes en route [Full Article]
February 22nd, 2010Grant Doyle is a baritone opera singer living with his wife in south-east London. He was born in 1971 and grew up in Australia before studying at the Royal College of Music, London and subsequently starring in many productions at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. [Full Article]
February 22nd, 2010Few orchestras can combine the passion of the individual with beautiful music like the Hallé. Hallé Opus One brought forth a flurry of emotion and movement, swelling with each passing moment. [Full Article]
February 22nd, 2010I remember being terrified of the sea, mostly because of my imagination taking hold of the undefined space under the water’s surface. [Full Article]
February 15th, 2010Wittily ridiculous, daftly sinister and packed full of punchlines, A Night on the Tiles, presented by the poet and MC collaborative Pen-ultimate, is an undeniable triumph. [Full Article]
February 15th, 2010Salt promised a tour de force of outstanding and vivid drama with a star-studded cast, a brilliant script and an opportunity to end the Royal Exchange Autumn/Winter calendar in style [Full Article]
February 15th, 2010With the arrival of the Chinese New Year, Rhona Ezuma comments on the West’s growing interest in Asian art with reference to the Facing East exhibition on now at Manchester Art Gallery. [Full Article]
December 14th, 2009Rhona Ezuma talks to Guy Jones, director of No Wonder at the Library Theatre [Full Article]
December 14th, 2009Friday night’s concert at the Bridgewater Hall echoed with the sounds of the ballet with the BBC Philharmonic, led by the energetic Gianandrea Noseda, in three ballet scores: two well-known Russian show-pieces and one neglected Italian masterpiece. [Full Article]
December 10th, 2009Gawkagogo Freakshow invites us to “step right in to a twisted underworld of eye-popping comic-strip mayhem,” Mayhem it was indeed and my eyes were certainly on stalks yet not, I suspect, for the right reasons. [Full Article]