BAFTA nominated actor Joe McFadden is set to star in the world premiere production of The House On Cold Hill, coming to Manchester Opera House. Adapted from Peter James’ best-selling 2015 novel and based on the author’s own real-life experience in a haunted house, the play will star Joe McFadden as Ollie Harcourt, husband to Caro…
Manchester-based genre film festival Grimmfest has revealed the first details of its upcoming 10th anniversary event programme. The organisers of the festival have announced the first three of many UK premieres lined up for the event. Whilst the full Grimmfest programme is set to be revealed on 3 September, an early sneak preview of three…
Manchester dance company, Company Chameleon, will perform a trio of pop-up dance performances in Manchester City Centre on Thursday 13 and Saturday 15 September. The trio of shows will include the UK premiere of a new male and female duet and will include a performance in The Foundation Coffee House as well as outside HOME…
Home, Manchester, will host the UK premiere of Mike Leigh’s Peterloo in October, with director Mike Leigh himself and members of the cast in attendance. The premiere will be followed by a Q&A with the director. The film tells the story of the Peterloo Massacre which took place 199 years ago today. Produced by Thin…
Danielle Hope and Sam Ferriday have been announced to join the cast of the award-winning musical Rock of Ages which comes to Manchester Opera House in September. Danielle Hope is perhaps best-known for having won BBC One’s Over the Rainbow, which lead to her professional debut in the lead role of Dorothy in Andrew Lloyd…
Manchester Opera House has announced that John Stahl and Cathy Tyson will join Charles Lawson the cast of Rebus: Long Shadows at Manchester Opera House. Rebus: Long Shadows is a brand new Rebus story written exclusively for the stage by the author of the original novels, Ian Rankin, mand playwright Rona Munro. What is Rebus:…
The first cast members have been announced for the UK and Ireland tour of the award-winning musical Rock of Ages which will run at Manchester Opera House. The initial cast announcement confirmed the involvement of Kevin Kennedy who will play ‘Dennis’, Zoe Birkett ‘Justice’, Jodie Steele ‘Sherrie’, Luke Walsh ‘Drew’, Lucas Rush ‘Lonny’, Andrew Carthy ‘Franz’,…
Horror maestro John Carpenter returns to the UK this October to perform his infamous soundtracks and original compositions with a show set for Manchester’s Albert Hall. John Carpenter is responsible for much of the horror genres and cult films’ most striking soundtrack work in movies such as Dark Star (1974), Assault on Precinct 13 (1976),…
Home, Manchester, presents the world premiere production of The Fishermen by Nottingham-based theatre company New Perspectives. The production will run for 9 shows in Manchester before travelling to the Edinburgh Festival, followed by a UK tour. What is The Fishermen about? Adapted by Edinburgh Festival Fringe First-winning playwright Gbolahan Obisesan, The Fishermen is a tense…
Hazel O’Connor will appear at Manchester’s Royal Northern College of Music for a special screening of the digitally re-master uncut version of the film Breaking Glass. The screening will be followed by an intimate Q&A and live performance of some of the film’s best loved songs. Striding into the spotlight and catapulted into fame in…
