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  • Manchester Theatre - The Phantom of the Opera - Photo Johan Persson
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    The Phantom of the Opera returning to the Palace Theatre Manchester

    ByMichelle Swift

    The Phantom of the Opera is returning to the Palace Theatre, Manchester, for a nine week run opening in March 2020. The production is now in to its 33rd year in the West End and is widely considered one of the most beautiful and spectacular productions in history. The Phantom of the Opera tells the…

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  • Incoming Festival at Home Manchester
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    Incoming Festival heading to HOME Manchester

    ByMichelle Swift

    Incoming Festival will return to HOME Manchester this month, following its debut at the venue in 2018. The annual festival is now in its sixth year and marks a partnership between A Younger Theater, New Diorama Theatre and HOME Manchester.  Incoming Festival will be presented simultaneously at the New Diorama Theatre in London as HOME…

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  • Home Manchester will host Nassim - image courtesy David Monteith-Hodge
    theatre, stage and film

    Where the actor doesn’t know the play …

    ByMichelle Swift

    Iranian playwright Nassim Soleimanpour brings his theatrical experiment of a play being performed by an actor who doesn’t know it to HOME Manchester. Soleimanpour’s work requires no rehearsals and no preparation – just a sealed envelope and a different actor each night to read the script for the first time. Over three performances at HOME,…

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  • Lydia Higginson, Josie Dale-Jones, Imogen Mahdavi and Olivia Norris in dressed at HOME Manchester
    theatre, stage and film

    Previewed: dressed. at Home Manchester

    ByMichelle Swift

    ThisEgg bring their Edinburgh Festival Fringe-First winner dressed. to HOME Manchester looking at trauma, and celebrating the healing power of clothes and friendship. They will deliver five performances of the production with each one caption subtitled. After being stripped at gunpoint in 2012, Lydia Higginson sought to redress herself by creating her entire wardrobe from…

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  • Miss Julie runs at Manchesters Hope Mill Theatre
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    Previewed: Miss Julie at Hope Mill Theatre

    ByMichelle Swift

    Elysium Theatre Company and Queen’s Hall Arts Centre are bringing August Strindberg’s Miss Julie to Manchester’s Hope Mill Theatre. Following sold out shows at Home Manchester, where they presented Jesus Hopped The A Train, Elysium Theatre Company are returning to Manchester.  This time they are bringing their critically acclaimed production of Strindberg’s Miss Julie. What…

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  • Hofesh Shechter's Grand Finale returns to Home Manchester - image courtesy Rahi Rezvani
    theatre, stage and film

    Hofesh Shechter Company returning to Home Manchester with Grande Finale

    ByMichelle Swift

    The Hofesh Shechter Company is returning to Home Manchester for a second run of Grand Finale, the ambitious piece which ran at the venue in January 2018. The Hofesh Shechter Company’s production of Grand Finale features 10 dancers and six musicians in a bold and ambitious piece.  Live music is performed on stage by the…

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  • Club Tropicana will run at Manchester Opera House
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    Previewed: Club Tropicana at Manchester Opera House

    ByMichelle Swift

    Big hair.  Shoulder pads.  Mobile phones which looked (and weighed) like bricks.  .. and smash hit pop classics.  Club Tropicana The Musical is set to take Manchester Opera House back to the 80’s. The ultimate 80’s summer adventure of love in the sun to a soundtrack of smash-hit pop classics all performed live on stage…

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  • Diana Vickers and Sara Crowe will star in The Entertainer at Manchester Opera House
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    Diana Vickers and Sara Crowe join the UK tour of The Entertainer

    ByMichelle Swift

    Diana Vickers and Sara Crowe have joined the UK tour of The Entertainer with Shane Richie, which comes to Manchester Opera House in October. The funny and heartbreaking John Osborne play will feature Sara Crowe as Phoebe Rice and Diana Vickers as Jean Rice.  Shane Richie plays the role of Archie Rice. Director Sean O’Connor,…

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  • The Book of Mormon - image courtesy Juliete Cervantes
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    The Book of Mormon extends Manchester Palace Theatre run

    ByMichelle Swift

    Due to incredible demand, ahead of opening its run at Manchester’s Palace Theatre, The Book of Mormon is extending its season at the venue. The Tony, Olivier and Grammy Award winning show opens at Manchester’s Palace Theatre on 6 June.  It will now run until Saturday 10 August. The cast of The Book of Mormon…

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  • Manchester theatre - One will run at Home Manchester
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    Previewed: One at Home Manchester

    ByMark Kelly

    Bertrand Lesca and Nasi Voutsas return to HOME Manchester with One, the third production in their trilogy of shows on contemporary political questions. The production of One follows their shows Eurohouse and Palmyra at Home Manchester’s 2017 Orbit Festival. One looks at the polarisation of politics today in an immediate, accessible form.  Beginning amid the ruins…

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