The full cast has been announced for the tour of An Officer And A Gentleman – The Musical, which comes to Manchester Opera House in August. The show has its world premiere at Leicester’s Curve Theatre before embarking on a tour of the UK and Ireland. Four-time Laurence Olivier Award nominated actress Emma Williams will…
Kylie Minogue has announced a UK and Ireland Arena tour which includes a Manchester gig at Manchester Arena. The 13 date tour follows recent news of an intimate gig at Gorilla on 14 March. Currently on a high with her brand new track Dancing, Kylie has promised a brand new extravaganza for this production which…
Gareth Chubb, the promoter behind the hugely successful Micron and Lost In Music club nights, has joined the team at Manchester venue Joshua Brooks X Versions as a managing director. He joins as the venue reverts back to its original moniker of Joshua Brooks and once again becomes a multi-purpose venue with concerts and arts…
Moya Brennan, the First Lady of Celtic Music, is back on tour promoting her latest album Canvas with 14 UK dates including Bury’s The Met. The voice of Clannad, Moya Brennan rose to prominence with a pioneering approach to traditional music, scoring 15 million record sales worldwide and picking up a string of awards along…
Former Greater Manchester theatre company Proto-type Theater return to their roots with a performance of their new production The Audit (or Iceland, a modern myth) at The Lowry. As well as operating from the city, individual members have current links with Salford. Performer Gillian Lees and digital designer Adam York Gregory both teach at Salford…
American rock stars KISS have donated prizes to be auditioned off at the Red Sea Pedestrians 10th Anniversary Charity ball in aid of Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital at the Lowry Hotel next month. The Charity Ball will be raising funds to support the hospital’s Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) which cared for many of the…
Paloma Faith has been announced to perform at the 2018 summer season at Haydock Park Racecourse in August 2018. Paloma Faith is currently riding high in the chars following her number 1 album The Architect and scooped a BRIT Award nomination for Best British Female. Paloma Faith returned to the charts in 2017 with ‘The…
Manchester’s Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM) brings Humperdinck’s opera Hansel and Gretel to the backstreets of Manchester this spring. The RNCM turns the clock back to the 1890s for this production of the Brothers Grimm tale, where a young brother and sister run away from their poor hunger-stricken home, to the lamp lit streets…
A series of multi-coloured, rippling glass sculptures have gone in display at Manchester Craft and Design Centre featuring the determined breaths of a glassblower. Seldom included in the finished product, the newly commissioned sculptures by Manchester-based makers, Jahday Ford and Joseph Hillary use innovative digital design and traditional glassblowing techniques to visualise the blown air…
2018 Brits Critics Choice award winner Jorja Smith has announced a run of UK tour dates for October 2018, including a Manchester gig at the Albert Hall. The eight headline dates mark her biggest tour to date. The tour follows her sold-out UK tour this month, which will finish next week with two headline shows…
