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.
Manchester and Durham based Elysium Theatre Company will stream its latest production to a worldwide audience. Only four years ago the company was putting on its first play in front of just dozens of people at the Assembly Rooms, Durham. Now Elysium has bases in...
Manchester based Elysium Theatre Company has been recognised with the prestigious Olwen Wymark Award by the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain.
Waterside in Sale has announced it is re-opening its doors from Monday 17 May 2021 and confirmed details of its summer and autumn plans. The arts venue has announced a programme of live music, theatre, visual arts, comedy, dance and spoken word. One of highlights...
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...
HOME Manchester has announced the launch of a brand-new temporary outdoor venue on First Street - Homeground. Homeground will feature live entertainment across two stages, with a 400-seat socially distanced outdoor theatre and second stage featuring free live...
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...
With a programme including Sir Lenny Henry, Sir Ranulph Fiennes, Space and The Christians, new live events venue The Bowdon rooms is wasting no time in making its mark. The Bowdon Rooms in Altrincham is set to welcome audiences and visitors back this Summer, subject...
A new artist film commissioned by HOME Manchester is set to be released to mark the 10th anniversary of the Great East Japan disaster. The production by visual artist Clara Casian addresses one of the most powerful earthquake and tsunami ever recorded. [adrotate...
Manchester's Hope Mill Theatre has announced that it will launch a Community Hub and also the Hope Mill Theatre School. The Community Hub and small studio theatre will be based on Pollard Street next to Hope Mill Theatre and include a large studio space and more...
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...
A Drive In Theatre Tina Turner tribute is coming to Manchester's Trafford Centre in April. The production will star Justine Riddoch as the award-winning Tina Turner. [adrotate banner="3"] Totally Tina is a recreation of a live TIna Turner concert, celebrating the...
Aljaz Skorjanec and Janette Manrara are set to star in a streamed performance of their new dance spectacular Remembering the Oscars. The limited three-week run of the one hour show will open on Saturday 27 March. [adrotate banner="3"] The show will celebrate the...