REVIEW - See How They Run, Royal Exchange

11:24am Thursday 18th December 2008

PHILIP King’s farce See How They Run sort of runs out of steam near the end of act two, but the first half of the evening is a real hoot.

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REVIEW - Peter Pan, Opera House

11:11am Thursday 18th December 2008

GARY Wilmot steals the show in Peter Pan, the sparkling and thoroughly entertaining panto being staged at the Opera House.

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REVIEW - 'Allo 'Allo

4:15pm Wednesday 17th December 2008

STAR RATING ** There can be few people who have missed out on the BBC comedy ‘Allo ‘Allo!. For more than a decade, the David Croft and Jeremy Lloyd penned sit com was a permanent small screen fixture, providing half hour slices of daft, somewhat predictable, silliness.

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REVIEW - Great Expectations - An alternative to the pantomime

1:49pm Wednesday 17th December 2008

IT’S Christmas time, and there’s no need to be afraid - not every theatre in Manchester is showing a pantomime.

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The Mandigans - The next big thing

1:13pm Wednesday 17th December 2008

A TEENAGE band from Altrincham, described as one of the best young acts in the country by Radio 1, are to give their fans an early Christmas present.

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REVIEW - Mary Poppins - Practically perfect in every way

1:35pm Wednesday 17th December 2008

MARY Poppins is the best musical to come to Manchester in the last 10 years. It’s simply sensational.

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ARTHUR BOSTROM - It's a farce

12:02pm Thursday 18th December 2008

PERSONALLY, I’ve never understood the huge appeal of farces, for the simple reason you can see the verbal and visual jokes coming a mile off.

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Rising to the challenge

10:07am Wednesday 3rd December 2008

I HAVE had a rubbish week, the commute from hell followed by the indignity of slipping on ice outside my son's school.

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