Manchester Museum will launch Frog Friday this week, presenting it live on Periscope as part of Manchester Museum in Quarantine. With the museum currently closed to the public due to the COVID-19 crisis, Manchester Museum have opened large segments of the museum online, with Manchester Museum in Quarantine continuing to offer acces to exhibitions, learning…
Manchester Museum has created a mobile friendly website to enable everyone to enjoy the museum in their own homes as part of Manchester Museum in Quarantine. With the museum closed due to COVID-19, the museum has uploaded some of its most engaging digital content on to a mobile website, helping to entertain and educate until…
Lesley Joseph has joined the cast of Sister Act for the UK and Ireland tour which comes to Manchester Opera House in June. Sister Act producers Jamie Wilson and Whoopi Goldberg have confirmed that Lesley Joseph will play Mother Superior in the smash hit musical. She is set to star alongside the previously announced Brenda…
Diversity have announced the Connected Tour for 2021, which will include three shows at Manchester’s Palace Theatre. After nine sell out UK tours, Diversity have announced one of their biggest UK runs to date. Diversity have now been performing to audiences around the world for 10 years, since winning the third series of Britain’s Got…
Award winning comic Tiff Stevenson has announced a string of dates as she takes her Mother show on tour including The Lowry. The show premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival’s Monkey Barrell last August to great critical acclaim, before heading to the USA for several sell-out shows in Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco….
Theatre company Figs in Wigs are returning to HOME Manchester to present the live art feminist adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women. The production, Little Wimmin, examines how the past is thought of, what’s wrong with the present, and what we’re going to do about the future … and even … whether there is…
George A Romero’s 1968 cult classic Night Of The Living Dead will be recreated shot-for-shot at HOME Manchester in a co-production between imitating the dog and Leeds Playhouse. The movie, a low-budget independent zombie horror film telling the story of seven strangers taking refuge from flesh-eating ghouls in a deserted farmhouse, has become one of…
Manchester Jewish Museum is set to present its first ever Festival of Belonging at venues across the city including Central Library and The Lowry. The one week event will feature nights of comedy, theatre, storytelling, films and visual arts. The festival will include events at Manchester Central Library where the Jewish Museum is currently housed…
The first ever UK and Ireland tour of the smash hit Broadway and West End musical Waitress will come to Manchester Opera House in November. Waitress tells the story of Jenna, an expert pie maker in a small town, who dreams of a way out of her loveless marriage. A baking contest in a nearby…
¡Viva! Spanish and Latin American film festival will return to HOME Manchester in Spring 2020 for its 26th appearance in Manchester. The festival will host 31 feature films and 10 short films from Spain and Spanish-speaking Latin America including 15 UK premieres. The festival will also feature six director Q&As with Belén Funes, David Romay,…
