Manchester’s Palace Theatre will host the highly anticipated English Première of the new Irish dance musical TitanicDance. The show features the three times Irish Dancing World Champion James Keegan along with a cast of 30 award-winning dancers and traditional Irish...
Manchester’s Palace Theatre and Opera House will be serving up a treat this autumn with a series of outstanding shows heading for the city. Musicals, comedy, drama, dance and pantomime are part of a packed season of productions being staged at the pair of city centre...
Michael Flatley’s Lord of the Dance: Dangerous Games has returned to the UK for a 23 city nationwide tour following the success of its 2015 tour. This run sees the show at Manchester’s Palace Theatre for five days, 11-15 April 2017. Featuring 40 outstanding...
With 14 UK premieres, 76 artists, 46 performances, 15 public space installations, five discussion events and five new commissions, SICK! Festival returns to Manchester and Salford running from 8-25 March. The three-week programme featuring some of the finest and most...
Presenting new hip hop triple bill Blak Whyte Gray The award-winning Boy Blue Entertainment, the tea behind Piped Piper and The Five and the Prophecy of Prana, make their debut at Home next week. Their new production, Blak Whyte Gray, a hip hop triple dance making...
Home has announced its spring and summer season of theatre and dance with world premieres, new productions, major revivals, international collaborations and even performances at secret locations across the city of Manchester. So what's on at Home? There's so much...
With Strictly Come Dancing recently returning to the small screen, it's perfect timing for Keep Dancing to reach the Palace Theatre. In many ways, it's taken substantial inspiration from the award winning BBC show - the staircase, the band, glitterball and the...
Fresh from winning a Silver Medal at the Rio Olympic Games, gymnast and Strictly Come Dancing champ Louis Smith is to guest star in Keep Dancing at the Palace Theatre, Manchester – a new show celebrating the world of Ballroom and Latin dance. Louis won the 2012 series...
As the Contact Theatre’s Autumn season is set to launch, we take a look at a few of the events taking place. The season will include theatre, dance, comedy and spoken work as well as an activity-packed open day for families and the return of Black Gold Arts Festival....
Manchester's Palace Theatre will host the world premiere of the English National Ballet's new production of Giselle. Co-producted by Manchester Inational Festival and Sadler's Wells, the new production will run from 27 September until 1 October before a national tour...
Diversity have announced a new tour, their seventh, for April 2017. The Genesis tour will see the group, who have sold over 300,000 tickets and made countless television appearances perform at Manchester Arena on Sunday 16 April 2017. The new tour Genesis is the...
Moscow City Ballet thrills audience After a triumphant 2014-2015 season which saw Moscow City Ballet perform the outstanding Swan Lake in Manchester, the renowned dance company returned with a captivating performance of Tchaikovsky's magnificent The Nutcracker. The...
As the Contact’s Spring and Summer Season prepares to launch, we take a look at some of the events coming up over the next few months in a programme filled with theatre, dance, wpoken word, cabaret, music and live art. The season opens with Avant Garde Dance, who,...
Renowned dance company, Moscow City Ballet, returns following a triumphant 2014-2015 season with its dramatic traditional story-telling and captivating performances, with The Nutcracker at the Palace Theatre 14 – 16 Jan. Moscow City Ballet arrives in the UK on the...
There’s a calm and quiet which falls upon the audience as the wonderful orchestra, conducted superbly by Gavin Sutherland, start to play the opening bars. The lengthy introduction is magnificent, grand and sets the scene. As the curtain rises we were introduced to...