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Author: Michelle Swift

  • SWIM at Home Manchester
    theatre, stage and film

    Previewed: SWIM at Home Manchester

    ByMichelle Swift

    Home Manchester will host a run of Liz Richardson’s SWIM ahead of a stint at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Theatre maker Liz Richardon has collaborated with fellow performers Josie Dale-Jones (who returns to Home Manchester following the recent production of .dressed) and Sam Ward to create Swim, a moving, yet humourous, account of one woman’s…

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  • One Night in Miami image courtesy Richard Hubert Smith
    theatre, stage and film

    Previewed: One Night In Miami at Home Manchester

    ByMichelle Swift

    Home Manchester hosts a fictional account based on true events imagining what happened when Cassius Clay, Malcolm X, Jim Brown and Sam Cooke were in the same hotel room. One Night In Miami is presented by Nottingham Playhouse Theatre Company by arrangement with ABKCO.  The production focuses on four friends, all on the cusp of…

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  • Manchester Theatre - The Phantom of the Opera - Photo Johan Persson
    theatre, stage and film

    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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  • Amelie The Musical comes to Manchester Opera House - image courtesy Pamela Raith Photography
    theatre, stage and film

    Full casting announced for Amelie The Musical at Manchester Opera House

    ByMichelle Swift

    Full casting has now been announced for Amelie The Musical as the critically acclaimed production comes to Manchester Opera House in August. Audrey Brisson had previously been announced for the title role of Amelie Poulain.  Now West End performer, Strictly Come Dancing contestant and television actor Danny Mac has joined the production. This beloved story…

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  • Incoming Festival at Home Manchester
    theatre, stage and film

    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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  • Louise Redknapp and Amber Davies will star in 9 to 5 The Musical at the Palace Theatre
    theatre, stage and film

    Louise Redknapp and Amber Davies to star in 9 to 5 The Musical

    ByMichelle Swift

    Louise Redknapp and Amber Davies have been confirmed to star in 9 to 5 The Musical, which comes to Manchester’s Palace Theatre in September.

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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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  • The Haunting of Blaine Manor
    theatre, stage and film

    The Haunting of Blaine Manor to take in haunted theatres

    ByMichelle Swift

    Joe O’Byrne’s award winning play The Haunting of Blaine Manor is set to begin a 2019 theatre tour taking in some of the most beautiful, and haunted, theatres in England. The Bolton writer/director will bring the production to a series of theatres across the region including The Garrick in Stockport, The Waterside in Sale, Bolton’s…

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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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  • Rip It Up The 70s - Melody Thorton - Louis Smith - Rachel Stevens
    theatre, stage and film

    Rip It Up The 70s featuring Louis Smith, Rachel Stevens and Melody Thornton coming to Manchester

    ByMichelle Swift

    Rachel Stevens, Louis Smith and Melody Thornton will bring Rip It Up The 70s to Manchester Opera House in October. The show is put together by the producers of Rip It Up The 50s and Rip It Up The 60s which sold more than 100,000 tickets and enjoyed a four month run in London’s West…

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