Award winning comedian Jason Manford is set to star in a UK Tour of The Producers, coming to Manchester’s Palace Theatre from 16th to 21st March 2015. The musical comedy is based on Mel Brooks’ highly acclaimed, Academy Award winning movie of the same name, telling the hilarious story of New York producer Max Bialystock…
Sunday 26 October: Bridgewater Hall – London Concert Orchestra presents Bond and Beyond. Spy kits, vodka martinis and tuxedos at the ready for this afternoon concert as the London Concert Orchestra performs iconic songs and music from 50 years’ of Bond movies alongside a tribute to other spies and detectives including the likes of The…
Internationally acclaimed blue-rock hero Simon McBridge is set to round off his year with a short UK Tour which is seeing him stop off in Manchester at Band On The Wall on 28th October. It marks the end of what has been quite a year for the former Young Guitarist of the Year who has…
Chetham’s Symphony Orchestra, one of the finest youth orchestras in the world is set to perform a programme of musical drama featuring the works of Bernstein, Tchaikovsky and Prokofiev at the Royal Northern College of Music on Thursday 23rd October. Bringing together over one hundred musicians aged 14-18, the orchestra is a regular at major…
Grimmfest have announced a Halloween takeover as part of the BFI UK-wide season ‘Days of Fear and Wonder’ and the Manchester Science Festival, which will see them presenting three iconic science fiction double bills by three of the most famed directors of the genre – Terry Gilliam, Paul Verhoeven and Ridley Scott. The event will…
It’s a decade since Sebastien Grainger (drums and vocals) and Jessie Keeler (bass and synth), collectively known as Death From Above 1979, burst on to the scene with an aggressive dance-punk which saw them propelled quickly on to tours with Nine Inch Nails and Queens of the Stone Age. But almost as quickly as their…
Some five months after their stunning gig at Manchester’s Deaf Institute, Teleman are back in town to perform at Gorilla. That gig came just a few weeks before their debut album Breakfast hit shelves (and hard drives) and quickly became a fan favourite. The fact that their gig sold out and that they held the…
Sunday 19 October: Bridgewater Hall – The Halle. Sir Mark Elder conducts and Paul Lewis is featured on piano as The Halle performs Brahms’ Piano Concerto No 1 and Dvorak’s Symphony No 8. Tickets £39-13. 7.30pm Tuesday 21 October: Royal Northern College of Music – The Stars of St Petersburg Showcase. Continuing the current…
Manchester’s Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama is set to run an evening of traditional Japanese silent films accompanied by ‘benshi’ (narrators). The concept is a throwback to classic 1920s silent movies in Japan which were accompanied by narrators (Katsudo benshi) who were, in effect, the stars of the movie, appearing live to accompany…
George Brant’s award winning play Grounded has been announced for a run of shows at the Royal Exchange Theatre from 4th November to 8th November as part of a national tour, following the success of sell out performances at the Edinburgh Festival and Gate Theatre as well as a series of dates at Studio Theatre…
