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1. 1. Review: Ghost The Musical - Opera House

   CityLife, Wednesday 13 April 2011 After months of intense advance publicity Ghost The Musical officially materialised last night and, amazingly, it lives up to the hype.

2. 2. Review: Tin Girl Story - Studio Salford

   CityLife, Thursday 07 April 2011 Local actress Kate Gilbert’s narrative of a young girl spurned has the redeeming feature of being quite short.

3. 3. Review: Wednesday - The Lowry

   CityLife, Monday 09 August 2010 Continuing The Lowry’s innovative Studio season of new writing from local talent, Wednesday’s advance publicity quite rightly warns about its violence, sexual content and strong language.

4. 4. Review: The Road To Nab End - Oldham Coliseum

   CityLife, Monday 21 June 2010 It all happened in Blackburn, but - as Coliseum artistic director Kevin Shaw points out – it could just as well have been Oldham. The hardships and the joys of growing up in the 1920s and 1930s were certainly very similar in any Lancashire mill town.

5. 5. Review: The Road To Nab End - Oldham Coliseum

   CityLife, Monday 21 June 2010 It all happened in Blackburn, but - as Coliseum artistic director Kevin Shaw points out – it could just as well have been Oldham. The hardships and the joys of growing up in the 1920s and 1930s were certainly very similar in any Lancashire mill town.

6. 6. Review: The Detective Show - Royal Exchange Studio

   CityLife, Thursday 29 April 2010 It starts with a sinister game of Cluedo, played out in a prison cell, continues with a body in hotel room 2B and concludes with the discovery of a very personal item belonging to the late Adolf Hitler. It’s totally silly, mostly incomprehensible and quite distinctly the People Show.

7. 7. Review: The Detective Show - Royal Exchange Studio

   CityLife, Thursday 29 April 2010 It starts with a sinister game of Cluedo, played out in a prison cell, continues with a body in hotel room 2B and concludes with the discovery of a very personal item belonging to the late Adolf Hitler. It’s totally silly, mostly incomprehensible and quite distinctly the People Show.

8. 8. Review: Comedians - Bolton Octagon

   CityLife, Monday 19 April 2010 So are there any taboo subjects when it comes to comedy? Just how far can a stand-up go in these permissive days when trying for that cutting-edge shock-laugh?

9. 9. Review: Comedians - Bolton Octagon

   CityLife, Monday 19 April 2010 So are there any taboo subjects when it comes to comedy? Just how far can a stand-up go in these permissive days when trying for that cutting-edge shock-laugh?

10. 10. Review: The World’s Wife - Royal Exchange Studio

    CityLife, Monday 12 April 2010 In essence more of a poetry reading than a theatrical performance, the stars of the show here are unquestionably the poems of Manchester-based Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy, and quite brilliantly clever and funny they are too.

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