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…
Remix, imitating the dog and Leeds Playhouse are bringing the raucous and dark outdoor production Dr Blood’s Old Travelling Show to The Lowry. The performance follows the success of their critically acclaimed stage recreation of George A. Romero’s zombie classic Night Of The Living Dead at HOME Manchester. [adrotate banner=”3″] The 30 minute production is…
The first live event since March will take place at HOME Manchester’s theatre when poetry and spoken word collective Young Identity launch their new book. HOME’s Resident Artists Young Identity will be launching their new book, Working From HOME, with an evening of emceeing, poetry and performance as they showcase their creative responses to work…
Five new online works have been released this week via the HOME Manchester website, the latest in the venue’s series of digital works, Homemakers. The new Homemakers commissions include a story told through blog posts and instagram, an animated spoken word slam, a live adaptation of Luis Borges’ The Book of Imaginary Beings, an audio-visual…
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…
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…
