Previewed: A Home for Grief at Contact Manchester
A new outdoor production is opening outside Contact Theatre’s newly refurbished building on Oxford Road.
A new outdoor production is opening outside Contact Theatre’s newly refurbished building on Oxford Road.
Waterside Arts is set to feature a series of free shows as part of its annual Summer Arts Festival Refract.
Manchester based Elysium Theatre Company has been recognised with the prestigious Olwen Wymark Award by the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain.
Queer Contact will return in just a few weeks, featuring TV writer Russell T Davies, It’s A Sin actor Nathaniel Hall, interactive cabaret and more.
Hope Mill Theatre has confirmed that it will stage a new UK production of The Wiz: The Super Soul Musical "Wonderful Wizard of Oz" this Christmas. The production features music and lyrics by Charlie Smalls, based on the book by William F Brown and original...
Hope Mill Theatre has announced that its production of the classic rock musical Rent will open on 6 August. The production returns after only being able to perform 5 live shows last autumn prior to lockdown. [adrotate banner="3"] Rent will open for a limited season...
Hope Mill Theatre's Play Reading Club has celebrated its third birthday, with the event thriving during the pandemic. Established in early 2017 the drop-in group, which meets from 11am to 1pm on the last Friday of every month, now has over 40 participants, who enjoy...
A UK tour of Horrible Histories: Barmy Britain will open in Manchester at the AJ Bell Stadium in April. The drive in production will hold two performances in Manchester before touring the UK. [adrotate banner="3"] Having staged the unique production over the past...
Two new digital works are coming to Home Manchester's website this week as part of their Homemakers series. Homemakers was launched in April last year to commission theatre and live art makers to create work at home, for audiences who are also at home. The series...
The first works have been announced for this year's Push Festival at HOME Manchester which will be spread across 2021 to allow work to be seen live and digitally. The initial series of works confirmed include brand-new commissions and an experimental video game....
Jennifer Saunders will reprise her role as Mother Superior in the UK tour of Sister Act The Musical which comes to the Palace Theatre in September 2021. The previously announced Brenda Edwards and Clive Rowe will play Deloris Van Cartier and Eddie Souther. [adrotate...
Contact Theatre has appointed Junior Akinola as the Chair of their Board of Trustees. The former Contact alumni, writer and BBC Assistant Content Producer becomes the first chair under the age of 30 to lead the board of a major performing arts venue in the UK. He...
HOME Manchester has announced that all of November's theatre shows will be live streamed during lockdown. The culture venue will make tickets for the shows streaming from the Theatre 1 stage available on a pay-what-you-decide basis. [adrotate banner="3"] Following...
John Cooper Clarke has announced a UK tour for May/June 2021, celebrating his new autobiography I Wanna Be Yours. The tour opens on 15th May 2021 at Leicester's De Montfort Hall and culminates in a home town performance at Manchester's Bridgewater Hall. The tour also...
A walking theatre production, Beyond Chinatown: A British East and South East Asian Guide to Manchester’s Past, Present and Future will take place in Manchester this month. The production is presented by Yellow Earth Theatre as part of Signal Fires, a series of events...