Month September 2025

REVIEW: Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story

Image Credit: Hamish Gill

Reading Time: 2 minutesThe sensational multi award-winning West End show is back on the road and triumphantly visits Salford as part of its 2025-26 UK Tour.

Forget feel good, Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story is FEEL GREAT! Featuring two terrific hours of the greatest songs ever written, including That’ll Be The Day, Oh Boy, Rave On, La Bamba, Chantilly Lace, Johnny B. Goode, Raining In My Heart, Everyday, Shout and many many more, this show is just Peggy Sue-perb!

REVIEW: The Bride and The Goodnight Cinderella at Southbank Centre

Credit: Christophe Raynaud de Lage

Reading Time: 3 minutesto (un)mark Botticelli’s four-panel cycle of Nastagio degli Onesti, a tale lifted from Boccaccio’s Decameron, depicts a brutal and chilling parable of male violence and coercion against women. Nastagio traps a woman to marry him by staging an eternal…

REVIEW: Yen

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Reading Time: 2 minutesAn intense and immersive drama, following the lives of two teenage brothers surviving a childhood of instability and neglect. ‘Yen’ is an immersive dive into the lives of two brothers, aged 13 and 16, who are living…

IN CONVERSATION WITH: Atri Banerjee and David Finnigan

Reading Time: 5 minutesThe Gate theatre presents the European premiere of David Finnigan’s Scenes from the Climate Era. Four performers take us through a dizzying series of vignettes, packed with humour and heart, all tackling the biggest story of our time.  Directed by Atri Banerjee this is an unflinchingly raw, funny and honest look at how the conversations around the climate crisis shape our everyday lives, our communities and the biological world around us.  

IN CONVERSATION WITH: Lucy Pearman

Reading Time: 2 minutesWe sat down with Lucy Pearman to talk about Lunatic. Lucy has just come off a sell-out Edinburgh Fringe with Lunartic, which was met with strong critical acclaim and multiple award nominations, including a nomination for The Malcolm Hardee Award for Comic Originality. Lucy will be performing at Soho Theatre from 29th Sept – 4th October. Tickets available HERE.