Manchester Opera House will host a run of the pantomime Sleeping Beauty as it reopens for Christmas. And all tickets for the first performance will be gifted to NHS workers and their families. [adrotate banner=”3″] Sleeping Beauty will run at Manchester Opera House for three weeks and star Jason Manford and Jodie Prenger. Also joining…
Grimmfest are embracing a different Christmas this year by screening two Christmas Horror Nights. The team over at Manchester’s Grimmfest are presenting two nights of festive frights, seasonal shockers and mean-spiritedness delivered into your homes. [adrotate banner=”3″] Fearsome feature films, eerie extras, cast and crew Q&A,s Christmas competitions and other goodies will also feature over…
Contact Theatre has appointed Junior Akinola as the Chair of their Board of Trustees. The former Contact alumni, writer and BBC Assistant Content Producer becomes the first chair under the age of 30 to lead the board of a major performing arts venue in the UK. He will work alongside the current Chair Steven Lindsay for…
HOME Manchester has announced that all of November’s theatre shows will be live streamed during lockdown. The culture venue will make tickets for the shows streaming from the Theatre 1 stage available on a pay-what-you-decide basis. [adrotate banner=”3″] Following news of the new lockdown, HOME Manchester put their plans in motion straight away to switch…
After a successful debut in 2020, Turn On Fest is returning to Hope Mill Theatre in 2021 with a programme filled with live and digital events. The festival aims to develop and celebrate LGBTQIA+ local artists in Manchester, running for two weeks in January 2021. [adrotate banner=”3″] The 2021 Turn On Fest is set to…
John Cooper Clarke has announced a UK tour for May/June 2021, celebrating his new autobiography I Wanna Be Yours. The tour opens on 15th May 2021 at Leicester’s De Montfort Hall and culminates in a home town performance at Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall. The tour also includes a show at Liverpool’s Mountford Hall. [adrotate banner=”3″] The…
A walking theatre production, Beyond Chinatown: A British East and South East Asian Guide to Manchester’s Past, Present and Future will take place in Manchester this month. The production is presented by Yellow Earth Theatre as part of Signal Fires, a series of events being presented nationwide this Autumn by the UK’s leading touring theatre…
Alty Fringe has revealed its festival programme and extended the event by an extra week with more shows to be announced. Following this week’s announcement of the festival at Altrincham Garrick Playhouse and news that Odyssey will be performing, a string of other shows have now been confirmed. Alty Fringe will now run from 23…
The schedule for FilmFear 2020 at HOME Manchester has been revealed, with a programme curated by Film 4’s David Cox and HOME’s Jason Wood. The lineup for 2020 is set to include Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Candyman, Wes Craven’s The People Under The Stairs and Jennifer’s Body amongst a host of horror and genre…
New festival Alty Fringe is helping bring live theatre back to Manchester with a one week event at Altrincham’s Garrick Theatre. The #AltyFringe will bring live theatre, dance, comedy and music to the venue in November, showcasing talent from around the region and beyond. [adrotate banner=”3″] Running Monday 23 to Sunday 29 November, the week…
