Rochdale Feel Good Festival is set to take over the town this Friday 29th August and Saturday 30th August. The Festival, which is funded by Rochdale Borough Council, attracted crowds of 10,000 in 2013 and is expected to exceed that this year as Rochdale Town Hall Square is given over to food, entertainment and music….
In a bold re-imagining of Shakespeare’s most iconic work, Hamlet will open the Autumn/Winter 14/15 season on Thursday 11th September 2014. BAFTA nominated Maxine Peake (The Village, Hancock and Joan) will lead the cast in this stripped back, fresh and fast-paced production which reunites her with Royal Exchange Artistic Director Sarah Frankcom. Having had huge…
The schedule for Grimmfest 2014 (International Festival of Horror and Cult Film) has just been announced, with tickets already on sale. Hosted by the Dancehouse (Oxford Road), this year’s line-up promises to be the biggest and best Grimmfest yet! Grimmfest is an annual film screening festival organised by Grimm Up North, a talented group of…
This Saturday (9th August) sees the launch of the Spinningfields Family Film Club in association with Disney On Ice Celebrates 100 Years of Magic. Music, face painters and balloon modellers will be entertaining families on The Lawns from 10:15am before the showing of Disney/Pixar’s Toy Story on the big screen. There will be a chance…
The Contact Theatre has just released the full listings for their Autumn 2014 season and tickets are now on sale for all events. The coming season will feature major names, radical international work as well as a host of up and coming companies. As well as Mark Bruce Company’s critically acclaimed production of Dracula, which…
Summer holiday workshops are nearly full but it’s not too late to get involved. It’s free to take part if you’re a Bright Sparks Member, signing up costs just £10 for the year for all the family. Today it is Raining Fri 1, 8, 15 Aug, 10am-12pm You and your child are invited to come and…
As the British Film Institute (BFI) recently announced a three month long celebration of the Sci-Fi genre in film and television, Film Hub North West Central has announced that it will receive a £51,100 grant from the BFI Programming Development Fund to take part in the BFI Sci-Fi ‘Days of Fear and Wonder’ season which…
Manchester’s Royal Northern College of Music will perform its first musical theatre piece in 14 years – Stephen Sondheim’s Company.
In collaboration with renowned director Mark Storer, who also worked on the Roundhouse’s groundbreaking production The Fat Girl Gets a Haircut And Other Stories with a cast of 12-17 year olds, Puffball builds on that success with a production that has come about as the culmination of a major year-long project working with young people…
A collaboration between award-winning writer Ravi Thornton, award-winning director Benji Reid and critically acclaimed composer Minute Taker, brings us the hard-hitting and heartbreaking musical HOAX My Lonely Heart. HOAX is one of hundreds of poems that were written by Roabbi (Rob), the younger brother of Ravi Thornton. Sadly, in 2008, after a long battle with…
