Thu 29 Jan, 8pm. £15/10. Over 15s. Post-show talk. BSL Interpreted. Tim Crouch and Andy Smith: what happens to the hope at the end of the evening A story about this evening, one evening and every evening; a story of two men meeting in the middle of their lives, and at the outer edges of…
The Royal Exchange Theatre’s production of 1950’s musical sci-fi spoot Little Shop of Horrors hits the stage – and it’s a winner.
As the opening of Manchester’s Home (formed by the merger of the Library Theatre Company and Cornerhouse) creeps ever closer, the final event in the series leading up to the launch of the new theatre and cinema complex has been announced – the Re:play Festival 2015, which will take place in a pop-up theatre at…
If you enjoy an evening of theatre that is full of hilarity, provocation and surprises, you should definitely snap up a ticket to Crocodiles.
The Family Arts Festival is coming to Manchester this October for two weeks of theatre and performance art for parents, carers, children and young people – all at pocket-friendly prices.
Ayub Khan Din’s hugely successful feature film East is East (originally his first play) is set to take to the stage in Manchester this coming January as part of a three week UK tour. As part of Artistic Director Jamie Lloyd’s second Trafalgar Transformed season at the Trafalgar Studios, East is East starts previewing in…
Last night we had the pleasure of going to watch one of Shakespeare’s most infamous plays of tragedy, loyalty, love, betrayal, murder and madness – Hamlet. In a production that would, in Shakespeare’s day, have been performed by an all-male cast, Maxine Peake gave an outstanding and impassioned performance in her title role, keeping alive…
This October, you can catch the 1956 Theatre Company at the Salford Arts Theatre where they will be performing a different play each week as part of ‘Manchester Rep Season’. The company are based in Manchester (the heart of the North!) and formed in May 2013, their name taking inspiration from the wave of change…
Spring 2015 will see the Cornerhouse and Manchester’s Library Theatre Company merge to form HOME – a new purpose-built centre at No.1 First Street, for international contemporary art, theatre, film and books. In the run up to the opening of the new £25m development, HOME have already run one critically acclaimed, site-specific production of Angel…
Dark new play Crocodiles is set to have its world premiere at the Royal Exchange Theatre on Wednesday 1st October. Written by Lee Mattinson (who has story-lined for Coronation Street as well as having written for a host of other productions including the Bush Theatre, Soho Theatre, The National Theatre, Paines Plough and BBC 3),…
