David Cunningham

NW reviewer

Reviews

The Bread We Break

Miray Sidhom

Contact and Roxy Moores

Contact, Manchester

24–31 March 2022

Vignettes

Cathy Crabb, Zoe Iqbal, Alex Keelan, Debbie Oates, Hannah Ellis Ryan and Aben...

HER Productions, Hannah Ellis Ryan, Alex Keelan, Naomi Albans and Kayleigh Hawkins

Hope Mill Theatre, Manchester

16–26 March 2022

A Tale of Two Cities

Ben Duke and devised with the Company after Charles Dickens

Lost Dog, The Place and Warwick Arts Centre

The Lowry, Salford

15–16 March 2022

Rigoletto

Score by Giuseppe Verdi, libretto by Francesco Maria Piave

Opera North

The Lowry, Salford

9–12 March 2022

Saving Britney

David Shopland with Shereen Roushbaian

Fake Escape

Hope Mill Theatre

8–11 March 2022

News News News

Andy Field and Beckie Darlington, with pupils from St Margaret's Primary Scho...

Cambridge Junction and Norfolk & Norwich Festival.

Contact , Manchester

5 March 2022

The Last Quiz Show on Earth

Alison Carr

Box of Tricks

Derby Brewery Arms, Manchester

24–26 February 2022

100% Cuban

Norge Cedeno ,Alexis Fernandez , Pontus Lidberg, Raúl Reinoso and Maria Rovira

Acosta Danza

The Lowry, Salford

22–23 February 2022

Tomorrow Is Not Promised

Tian Glasgow

New Slang Productions, The Lowry and Sustained Theatre Up North

The Lowry, Salford

18–19 February 2022

Private Lives

Noël Coward

The Nigel Havers Theatre Company

The Lowry, Salford

15–19 February 2022

Features

Global Community

30 April 2020

David Cunningham looks at the online offerings from Shakespeare's Globe and compares them with his visits to the venue soon after it opened.

A messianic David Tennant as Richard II in 2013

‘King & Country’ and other epics

18 April 2020

David Cunningham hopes, when the theatres reopen, that their response will be some epic drama of substance in reaction to the trauma that we have all experienced.

Ain't nothing like the real thing

6 April 2020

David Cunningham explains why the online world can never make up for what he personally is currently missing from live theatre.

Gabriela Garcia (Maria) and Andy Coxon (Tony) in West Side Story at the Royal Exchange

2019: musicals trump serious drama in Manchester

3 January 2020

Manchester reviewer David Cunningham gives a detailed account of his top theatre visits of 2019, with some comments about the intrusive security policies of some theatres.