"I just think everyone's funny in the North" Joe Kent-Walters is Frankie Monroe... Live!!! He talks to Northern Soul.

Flickering on the screen of an old BlackBerry, its landscape display diminishing them in scale, they could, at first glance, be part of any number of blazing bodies – logs burning with homely warmth ...

You know the kind of thing you’re getting with a Shakespearean comedy. Lovers falling out with each other amid some crossed wires. Someone (usually a hapless male) dressing up in ridiculous fashion.

I usually write theatre reviews the minute I walk through the door. It’s all still there in my head, sharp and bright, every detail could make it into the copy. This time, however, I had to decompress ...

It starts in flames. Flickering on the screen of an old BlackBerry, its landscape display ...

To paraphrase Oscar Wilde, each man loves the thing he kills. Kevin! (The Musical) was birthed ...

Words have their own particular architecture. A scaffolding of syntax and a skeleton of grammar that both shapes and constrains the sayable. Dance, by way of contrast, has the facility to slip beyond ...

Not content with dispatching her pop bands forward through the decades to grace us with extensive reunion/nostalgia tours, it would appear that the Goddess of the Noughties is now sending forth her ...

I’ve been a bit under the weather of late (who wouldn’t be in the year’s darkest, greyest months?). So a self-care retreat in the heart of Manchester was just the ticket. From the moment I arrived at ...

In his time, Douglas Adams, best known for writing The Hitchhikers’ Guide to the ...

I’ve been a bit under the weather of late (who wouldn’t be in the year’s ...