Wendi Peters leads cast in satirical war musical War timed based musical Oh What a Lovely War is set to be performed at Manchester Opera House from Tuesday 24th until Saturday 28th February 2015. The production, directed by multiple Olivier Award-winner Terry Johnson, is now on a national tour, just over 100 years since the…
Event forms part of Get Creative – major celebration of the nation’s arts, culture and creativity The Royal Exchange Theatre is to stage a discussion about the value of arts, culture and creativity in Greater Manchester. The event, dubbed Creativity Counts, will explore the value of creative and cultural experiences to the region and asks…
Back to Back Movies at Gorilla Grimm Up North are set to hold a slash double-bill on Friday 13th March. The event, hosted at Manchester’s Gorilla, is set to feature two classic ’80s slash movies – the iconic Friday The 13th and Prom Night. Friday The 13th (1980), which spawned numerous sequels and remakes, sees the hapless…
Olivier Award winning musical a hit in Manchester Triple Olivier Award winning musical Top Hat, featuring the classic songs of Irving Berlin and based on the much loved film starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers has arrived in Manchester. And in the lead roles of Jerry Travers and Dale Tremont, Alan Burkitt and Charlotte Gooch…
As well as longer runs of shows at the Palace Theatre and Opera House, they are both set to host some fantastic one-off productions over the next few months. So what’s on offer? We take a quick look at some of the blink and you’ll miss them shows coming up. Mercury – the Ultimate Queen…
The Dancehouse Theatre presents a range of comedy, film and cabaret this month including classic movies such as Carrie, local favourites Terry Christian, Badly Drawn Boy and Aziz Ibrahim in a Mad Manc Cabaret and an alternative Valentines! As Water Reflects the Face – Wednesday 4th February Brought to you by The Osonó Theatre from Saint George,…
This year’s Re:play 2015 Festival is set to launch today at Home. Brought on by the merger of the Library Theatre Company and the Cornerhouse, Home is destined to be the UK’s largest arts centre outside of London when it is finished this spring. For now, the festival will take place in the pop-up venue…
Latest Monty Python Spamalot tour launches in Manchester Monty Python’s Spamalot is returning to Manchester’s Opera House for the launch of an all new UK tour, featuring Joe Pasquale as the legendary King Arthur, Bonnie Langford as The Lady of The Lake and Todd Carty as Patsy. Producer by Howard Panter, the show is lovingly…
Liverpool’s Tmesis Theatre’s latest production That’s Amore has been announced for a debut run, which will see a performance of the love filled show taking place at Bury’s The Met on Thursday 12th February. Billed as a hilarious, fast paced, passionate and emotional piece of physical theatre which explores the vast world of culture and…
The story of Manchester’s original gangs Award-winning playwright Rona Munro’s new play Scuttlers is set to receive its world premiere at Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre. Inspired by the Manchester riots of 2011 and stores of all the Manchester gangs from the nineteenth century through to modern times, Scuttlers is set in 1885, but pitched against…
