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Reviews | Charlie Bush

I wrote in the last issue about the wonderful range of strong roles for women in the current season at the Royal Exchange and, frankly, the new production of A More »

Reviews | Ata Rahman

Exhibition by Sean Smith

Reviews | Charlie Bush

The British Museum’s Pompeii and Herculaneum exhibition opened to considerable fanfare at the end of March. A number of prime-time TV documentaries heralded its coming and the Mayor of London, More »

Reviews, What’s On | Charlie Bush

The Manchester Museum opened its newly refreshed exhibitions of archaeology and Egyptology at the end of last semester. The Museum is nestled at the very heart of the University, across More »

Reviews, What’s On | Charlie Bush

When launching the annual Bruntwood Playwriting Prize at the Royal Exchange in Manchester earlier this year, Dame Jenni Murray stated the importance of strong roles for women. She was, however, More »

Reviews | Will Porter

The Didsbury Beer Festival was a three-day event, celebrating the beers, ales, perries and ciders from independent breweries throughout Britain. Returning for its fifth year the Festival has expanded both More »

Reviews | Charlotte Johnson

Exhibition at the People’s History Museum, 30 June 2012 — 24 February 2013

Reviews | Charlie Bush

This rather relatively underperformed Tennessee Williams’ play is set in the Deep South in the 40s. Claustrophobia and prejudice smothers the small town, where the parochial poison of vicious and More »

Reviews | Sahand Razavi

Manchester’s continual architectural and cultural makeover has offered a few surprises over the past decade (the controversial design of the Hilton Tower splitting Mancunian opinion in particular) yet whilst that More »

Reviews | Lewis Gordon

J Edgar Hoover was the Bureau of Investigation from 1924 until his death in 1972, a period in which he played the key role in shaping an institution that came More »