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Sisters of Mersey review – bawdy nun farce requires saintly forgiveness

Set in a covent and a prison, Jonathan Harvey’s knockabout new play is full of sledgehammer innuendo

The Guardian - UK

Closer to Heaven review – Pet Shop Boys musical is still hellish

Adequate songs are not enough to fill out Jonathan Harvey’s flimsy clubbers’ romance, though Frances Ruffelle provides some welcome razzle dazzle

The Guardian - UK

‘We still haven’t cracked it!’ How much does a play change during previews?

It is a fraught time of cuts, rewrites – and alcohol. Our writer goes behind the scenes at The Divine Mrs S just as the official opening night looms and not everyone’s ready to face the music

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Count Binface unveils manifesto for London Mayoral election including Thames Water pledge

The satirical political candidate has unveiled a list of 24 policies - with some more extreme than others

Evening Standard

Cranbrook school principal resigns over allegations he knew about teacher’s ‘extremely concerning past conduct’

School council says Nicholas Sampson resigned following ‘an irrevocable breakdown of trust’

The Guardian - AU

Coronation Street fans turned off by 'cringe' saucy scenes!

Coronation Street viewers did not enjoy the sexy talk!

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Jonathan Harvey obituary

Other lives: Co-founder and former chief executive of Acme Studios, a provider of affordable spaces for artists

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Beautiful Thing review – 90s teens navigating tough times in a tender-hearted triumph

Jonathan Harvey’s breakthrough play still blazes with a stubborn utopian impulse thanks to finely pitched performances and delicately balanced banter

The Guardian - UK

Beautiful Thing at Theatre Royal Stratford East review: gleefully of its time but more timeless than ever

It is, indeed, a rather beautiful thing

Evening Standard

‘I had a panic the night my mum came to see it’: Jonathan Harvey on writing Beautiful Thing

‘I wanted to write a play about two boys falling in love and give it a happy ending. During the Aids crisis, it was unusual for a gay character to be alive at the end of a drama’

The Guardian - UK

Real life of Coronation Street's Bernie Winter actress Jane Hazlegrove - Emmerdale star wife, heartbreaking loss, forgotten role and doppelganger

Jane took on the role of Bernie in 2019 and has cemented herself as among Corrie fans' favourite characters

Manchester Evening News

A Thong for Europe review – hilariously subversive Eurovision celebration

An inspired parody of coming-out dramas meets a deliciously daft plot involving Sonia in Jonathan Harvey’s comedy

The Guardian - UK

Mother Goose review: Ian McKellen shines as new pantomime spares no remorse for Tory Britain

The production proved pantomimes don't have to be just for Christmas

Bristol Post

Corrie legend makes rare appearance and on-screen siblings cuddle up on the red carpet as ITV soap stars head out in force

William Roache made a rare red carpet appearance as he joined a whole host of his current and former co-stars at The Lowry

Manchester Evening News

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Daily Mirror

Coronation Street fans thrilled as soap legend announces cobbles return after three years

Corrie soap writer Jonathan Harvey walked back along the cobbles after he had been prevented from doing so in recent years due to Covid

The Independent UK

‘If you can get it right it is magical’: Sir Ian McKellen to star in touring panto production of Mother Goose

Show has been written by ‘Coronation Street’’s Jonathan Harvey and is directed by Cal McCrystal

The Independent UK

Sir Ian McKellen to star in touring panto production of Mother Goose

The show has been written by Coronation Street’s Jonathan Harvey and is directed by Cal McCrystal.

Daily Mirror

Corrie favourite Gabrielle Glaister to return to cobbles in new doppelganger storyline

The doppelganger plotline is set to kick off on August 26 following a mix-up about a parcel collection as Gabrielle Glaister returns to Coronation Street - but not as Debs Brownlow

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Manchester Evening News

ITV Corrie fans seeing double when Bernie Winter meets her doppleganger - and she's been in the soap before

It's a case of double trouble on Coronation Street

Liverpool Echo

Coronation Street star confirms comeback as a brand new character

Gabrielle Glaister played the sister of Denise Welch's character, Natalie Barnes, for 75 episodes

Daily Mirror

Corrie’s Gabrielle Glaister returns to soap but not as Debs amid Bernie double trouble plot

Coronation Street has signed Gabrielle Glaister up to the ITV soap to play Bernie Winter's doppelganger in a doppelganger storyline hatched by actress Jane Hazlegrove

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