For my birthday way back in darkest December, Jackie got us tickets for Edward Scissorhands at the Lowry. Having seen excellent reviews, we were looking forward to a very different sort of show and came away with nothing but praise. read more...

One of the treats of our Edinburgh trip was a night out at the theatre - having scoured the listings I came across I was a beautiful day at the Traverse. This particular week in November seems to be a bit of a dark time in terms of theatre - with the autumn season giving way to Christmas the previous week would have given us all sorts of choices from Shakespeare to contemporary dance - but beggars can't be choosers and this looked like it might be interesting. read more...

We’ve just spent a rather pleasing evening at the theatre with Penny and Oliver. We began at with a meal at Tiggis, a slightly shiny pizza/pasta place on Bradshawgate in town. read more...

As our post-valentines day treat we went to see Talia Theatre's production of The Life of Moliere at the Octagon on Wednesday night. We were really not sure what to expect - for starters it was being shown in the little Bill Naughton Theatre which was, erm, cosy and shoe-box shaped and for seconds the set involved a rather cheap looking trolley with bits hanging off it. read more...

Last night we went over to Lancaster to see my sister Sophie perform in a LRGS/LGGS joint production of The Tempest. Sophie played a spirit - and did some narration. read more...