A UK tour of Horrible Histories: Barmy Britain will open in Manchester at the AJ Bell Stadium in April. The drive in production will hold two performances in Manchester before touring the UK. [adrotate banner=”3″] Having staged the unique production over the past summer and then performing to thousands of families across Christmas with Horrible…
[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”3.22″][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.25″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.27.4″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”]A Drive In Theatre Tina Turner tribute is coming to Manchester’s Trafford Centre in April. The production will star Justine Riddoch as the award-winning Tina Turner. [adrotate banner=”3″] Totally Tina is a recreation of a live TIna Turner concert, celebrating the…
Following the recent announcement of a further national lockdown, Hope Mill Theatre have confirmed that Turn On Fest 2021 has been postponed. Rescheduled dates are to be announced in due course. [adrotate banner=”3″] In a statement from Hope Mill Theatre, the venue thanked everybody who had been working to make the event happen, including partners,…
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…
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…
Manchester’s Contact Theatre has launched a £20,000 fundraising campaign to buy essential equipment and outfit creative spaces for music, drama and leadership projects. The campaign follows the construction phase of the £6.75 million project to extend and refurbish the iconic Contact Theatre. Now, the organisation has now launched the ambitious, urgent fundraiser to kit out…
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…
Hope Mill Theatre is set to live stream the UK premiere of a new documentary celebrating the career of Oscar-winning icon Olympia Dukakis. Olympia, directed by Harry Mavromichalis, will be streamed free of charge on Hope Mill Theatre’s facebook page at 6pm on Friday 10 July, although Hope Mill Theatre is asking for donations from…
