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As artistic director and chief executive of Oldham Coliseum, Chris Lawson has endured a truly harrowing year after Arts Council England brutally, and
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The semi-permeable membrane to pop cultural recognition on a universal scale is one which is easier for personalities of a certain cast to pass
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After a 25-year absence from the studio, the renowned gallery director Stephen Snoddy started creating his own art again in 2013. The resulting work
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There’s a pronounced tendency in pop for its female practitioners to be defined by association, and such is the fate of Sarabeth Tucek, abbreviated
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Manchester’s HOME is all but full for this evening’s programme, a complementary retrospective of the short films of Chris Paul Daniels and Nick
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Ten-year-old me wouldn’t believe it. Meeting Eurovision contestants was a childhood dream. And yet there I was, on a train from Liverpool
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When I picked up The Wild Bee Handbook by Sarah Wyndham Lewis, I half expected it to be like so many ‘handbook’ type publications I had read
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There is a moment in the introduction to the film Field of Dreams where the main protagonist, Ray Kinsella (Kevin Costner), declares that his subject
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My mother-in-law once had dinner with Yul Brynner. She delighted in telling this to anyone who would listen and always ended the tale with the
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There is a collective flutter of fairy wings reverberating across the Wirral peninsula as a magical exhibition aims to celebrate the legacy of a
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Family Tree is the kind of play for which it feels reductive to give a star rating. It is ambitious, complex, thought-provoking, superbly acted and
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‘The scene is the blue and white room in the house of the Misses Susan and Phoebe Throssel in Quality Street; and in this little country town there
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Henry Normal has an impressive list of credentials. His many accolades include co-creating and co-writing some of the most popular TV series of the
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Hew Locke creates alter pieces, works which tinker inquisitively at the tough nut of conventional representation, prising apart the ambivalence that
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Ancient Greek and Roman Gods were not really a feature of my childhood in 1980s Liverpool, and so I reached young adulthood assuming that knowledge