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1. 1. Profile: Bruntwood Prize For Playwriting

   CityLife, Thursday 10 February 2011 The Bruntwood Prize recognises great new talent, writes Kevin Bourke.

2. 2. Preview: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

   CityLife, Friday 23 April 2010 Manchester welcomes back the hit musical that has a bit of magic for everyone, says Kevin Bourke.

3. 3. Preview: 1984 - Royal Exchange

   CityLife, Friday 26 February 2010 Hailed as an instant classic on its publication in 1949, George Orwell’s 1984 is now seen by many as one of the definitive novels of the 20th century.

4. 4. Preview: Three Sisters - The Lowry

   CityLife, Friday 26 February 2010 Chekhov, agrees rising star Romola Garai, sometimes has a reputation for being a bit stuffy and, frankly, unsexy.

5. 5. Greenroom: Spring season 2010

   CityLife, Friday 12 February 2010 The MEN Theatre Award-winning Greenroom, on Whitworth Street ‘doesn’t like to take itself too seriously’. “We are a theatre, but not in the traditional sense,” they say. “Every inch of the building gets used – bar, corridors, kitchen, lift, toilets, as well as the theatre.

6. 6. Circus spectacle tells Mulan's story

   CityLife, Friday 22 January 2010 UNLESS you’re familiar with Chinese mythology, it’s possible that you might associate the name Mulan only with the Disney animated film. But now the Chinese legend has also inspired the Chinese State Circus's latest show, which comes to The Lowry.

7. 7. What's in store at The Royal Exchange?

   CityLife, Friday 13 November 2009 THE Royal Exchange’s productions for spring and summer next year include a new stage adaptation of George Orwell’s classic novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four; Shakespeare’s furiously funny The Comedy Of Errors; and George Bernard Shaw’s much-loved Pygmalion.

8. 8. We love short Shorts

   CityLife, Thursday 01 October 2009 AT the time of the last JB Shorts programme – comprising six half a dozen new short plays written by established TV, radio and stage writers returning to their fringe theatre roots – I was moved to observed in these very pages that the night had been ‘enormously entertaining and stimulating’.

9. 9. Away We Go (18)

   CityLife, Wednesday 16 September 2009 WRITTEN by Dave (A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius) Eggers and his wife Vendella Vida, Away We Go charts the odd oddyssey of happily-unmarried, long-term couple Burt (John Krasinski) and Verona (Maya Rudolph).

10. 10. Director's departure adds farce to Royal Exchange's Miser

    CityLife, Tuesday 08 September 2009 HELENA Kaut-Howson is still listed as director of the Royal Exchange's new production of Moliere's classic, The Miser, but she had parted company with the theatre late in the rehearsal stages. Despite inevitable shifts of emphasis, Derek Griffiths in the star role was well-received.

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