Manchester’s Contact Theatre has launched a £20,000 fundraising campaign to buy essential equipment and outfit creative spaces for music, drama and leadership projects. The campaign follows the construction phase of the £6.75 million project to extend and refurbish the iconic Contact Theatre. Now, the organisation has now launched the ambitious, urgent fundraiser to kit out…
The organisers of Grimmfest have revealed further details of the line up for their 2020 online festival including world premieres and special guests. The online edition of Grimmfest this year features over 20 feature films, two short film showcases, Q&As, seminars an audience with Mick Garris and a string of exclusive content. [adrotate banner=”3″] Running…
Hope Mill Theatre is set to live stream the UK premiere of a new documentary celebrating the career of Oscar-winning icon Olympia Dukakis. Olympia, directed by Harry Mavromichalis, will be streamed free of charge on Hope Mill Theatre’s facebook page at 6pm on Friday 10 July, although Hope Mill Theatre is asking for donations from…
HOME Manchester is targeting a reopening date of 4 September 2020 for its cinemas, bars and restaurant followed later in the month by a reopening of the gallery and theatre space. The new comes following Government guidance on the re-opening of venues, with HOME aiming to restart theatre and gallery programmes later in the Autumn…
HOME Manchester has announced five new Homemaker productions, a series of works challenging artists to create in lockdown for an audience to enjoy at home. The latest works to be made available include James Monaghan’s sunset to sunrise online performance, Let’s Spend the Night Together, Ugly Bucket’s short film ABC (Anything But Covid), both commissioned…
Grimmfest, the Manchester based genre film festival, has announced the launch of Grimmfest TV, bringing horror films of all types to viewers during lockdown. The prestigious genre film festival has launched a free channel during lockdown which will feature feature length films, shot films and additional features at Grimmfest.com/TV. [adrotate banner=”3″] Speaking about the launch…
Lesley Joseph has joined the cast of Sister Act for the UK and Ireland tour which comes to Manchester Opera House in June. Sister Act producers Jamie Wilson and Whoopi Goldberg have confirmed that Lesley Joseph will play Mother Superior in the smash hit musical. She is set to star alongside the previously announced Brenda…
Diversity have announced the Connected Tour for 2021, which will include three shows at Manchester’s Palace Theatre. After nine sell out UK tours, Diversity have announced one of their biggest UK runs to date. Diversity have now been performing to audiences around the world for 10 years, since winning the third series of Britain’s Got…
HOME Manchester is celebrating International Women’s Day with a series of film screenings, gallery tours, workshops and theatre shows. Across the weekend, HOME Manchester is offering a tour of the Manchester Open Exhibition, a workshop on production and beat-making, short films from contemporary Spanish female filmmakers, the UK premiere of Sabrina Blanco’s first film, and…
School of Rock – The Musical is set to come to Manchester’s Palace Theatre in 2021 as the award-winning West End show goes on a major UK tour. Based on the hit movie starring Jack Black, School of Rock – The Musical centres around Dewey Finn, a failed, wannabe rock star. Finn tries to earn…
