After the launch of Grimmfest TV, more titles are being added to the channel every week, with two award-winning shorts landing today. The new online TV channel dedicated to horror films of all types has been launched by Manchester’s Grimmfest, one of Europe’s most prestigious genre film festivals. The channel includes features and shorts from…
Grimmfest, the Manchester based genre film festival, has announced the launch of Grimmfest TV, bringing horror films of all types to viewers during lockdown. The prestigious genre film festival has launched a free channel during lockdown which will feature feature length films, shot films and additional features at Grimmfest.com/TV. [adrotate banner=”3″] Speaking about the launch…
The Scottish archive film from director Virginia Heath From Scotland With Love is coming to Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall with a live musical score from King Creosote. From Scotland With Love was last performed to huge acclaim at the Edinburgh International Festival in Summer 2015. The 75-minute film is made entirely of Scottish film archive by…
Lesley Joseph has joined the cast of Sister Act for the UK and Ireland tour which comes to Manchester Opera House in June. Sister Act producers Jamie Wilson and Whoopi Goldberg have confirmed that Lesley Joseph will play Mother Superior in the smash hit musical. She is set to star alongside the previously announced Brenda…
Diversity have announced the Connected Tour for 2021, which will include three shows at Manchester’s Palace Theatre. After nine sell out UK tours, Diversity have announced one of their biggest UK runs to date. Diversity have now been performing to audiences around the world for 10 years, since winning the third series of Britain’s Got…
HOME Manchester is celebrating International Women’s Day with a series of film screenings, gallery tours, workshops and theatre shows. Across the weekend, HOME Manchester is offering a tour of the Manchester Open Exhibition, a workshop on production and beat-making, short films from contemporary Spanish female filmmakers, the UK premiere of Sabrina Blanco’s first film, and…
Award winning comic Tiff Stevenson has announced a string of dates as she takes her Mother show on tour including The Lowry. The show premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival’s Monkey Barrell last August to great critical acclaim, before heading to the USA for several sell-out shows in Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco….
School of Rock – The Musical is set to come to Manchester’s Palace Theatre in 2021 as the award-winning West End show goes on a major UK tour. Based on the hit movie starring Jack Black, School of Rock – The Musical centres around Dewey Finn, a failed, wannabe rock star. Finn tries to earn…
Theatre company Figs in Wigs are returning to HOME Manchester to present the live art feminist adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women. The production, Little Wimmin, examines how the past is thought of, what’s wrong with the present, and what we’re going to do about the future … and even … whether there is…
George A Romero’s 1968 cult classic Night Of The Living Dead will be recreated shot-for-shot at HOME Manchester in a co-production between imitating the dog and Leeds Playhouse. The movie, a low-budget independent zombie horror film telling the story of seven strangers taking refuge from flesh-eating ghouls in a deserted farmhouse, has become one of…
