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1. 1. Why Library's Chris isn't ratty!

   CityLife, Friday 25 November 2011 Chris Honer, artistic director of the Library Theatre, is a happy man.

2. 2. Theatre: Lucia Cox is busy at the fringe of things across the city

   CityLife, Friday 01 July 2011 Lucia Cox is not only writing and preparing to perform her one-woman show, Blackbird, next week as part of the Not Part Of Festival, but is also producing this week’s Tinned Up, part of the “in development with The Lowry” series, and, in a couple of weeks, The Shadow Of Your Hand, part of this year’s 24:7 Festival.

3. 3. Ensure you are part of the Not Part Of festival

   CityLife, Friday 01 July 2011 Kevin Bourke profiles the start of the MIF fringe theatre festival.

4. 4. Theatre: Hard Times

   CityLife, Friday 03 June 2011 The scene is set for Dickens’ Hard Times to take the stage surrounded by Ancoats’ industrial heritage in a new production, as Kevin Bourke discovers.

5. 5. Review: Once In A House On Fire - The Lowry

   CityLife, Monday 04 April 2011 The stage version of Andrea Ashworth’s best-selling memoir is presented in the Studio Theatre by Monkeywood Theatre and however harrowing the story is, it’s refreshing to see a Manchester-based story told by a local company.

6. 6. Interview: John Henshaw

   CityLife, Thursday 02 December 2010 Kevin Bourke talks to Peter Pan’s John Henshaw ahead of The Lowry's festive 'musical adventure'.

7. 7. Review: Desperate To Be Doris - Oldham Coliseum

   CityLife, Thursday 28 October 2010 There was time, a couple of years back, when we – perish the thought – wondered if almost-legendary Manchester-based comedy duo Lip Service were beginning to run out of ideas.

8. 8. Review: The Fragility Of X - Contact Theatre

   CityLife, Thursday 28 October 2010 The Fragility Of X comes to Contact following its premiere at this year’s Edinburgh Festival, where it won a Spirit Of The Fringe Award.

9. 9. Review: The Fragility Of X - Contact Theatre

   CityLife, Thursday 28 October 2010 The Fragility Of X comes to Contact following its premiere at this year’s Edinburgh Festival, where it won a Spirit Of The Fringe Award.

10. 10. Review: Spend Spend Spend! - The Lowry

    CityLife, Wednesday 13 October 2010 Viv Nicholson's football pool's win made headline news in 1961 and her rags to riches to rags story which became a book, a film and eventually a musical seemed simply a morality tale of the times.

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