Can you teach a dolphin English? And what happens when you inject one with LSD? Breach Theatre are to return to Home Manchester with Edinburgh Festival 2016 Fringe First Winner Tank. Running for three nights at Home, Tank is Breach Theatre’s follow-up to their debut...
Manchester's Albert Hall is set to be taken over by masked Mexican wrestlers this summer as "The Greatest Spectacle of Lucha Libre" comes to the UK. The Lucha Libre Mexican style of professional wrestling has become one of the country's biggest sports, drawing...
Take That's musical production takes £2 million at box office in two hours The UK tour of David Push & Dafydd Rogers and Take That's production of Time Firth's new musical The Band has become the fastest selling theatre tour ever, taking £2 million in the first...
New musical to feature the music of Take That David Pugh, Dayfdd Rogers and Take That have announced that the UK Tour of Tim Firth’s new musical The Band, featuring the music of Take That, will have a major UK tour, launching at Manchester Opera House on 8 September...
Academy Award nominee Dame Janet Suzman to star in major UK revival Home has announced the first UK revival of Martin Sherman’s Rose. The award-winning play premiered at the National Theatre in London in 1999. From her home in Miami, USA, eighty-year-old Rose takes...
Coronation Street legend, Kevin Kennedy, is to star as Jimmy’s Da in the UK tour of the critically acclaimed musical The Commitments written by Roddy Doyle, which comes to the Palace Theatre, Manchester, from Monday 27 March to Saturday 8 April 2017. The UK tour will...
Manchester run extended by three weeks The Manchester Opera House run of Jim Steinman’s Bat Out Of Hell – The Musical has been extended by three weeks, now running until 29 April 2017. The additional run of dates follows overwhelming public demand for the show,...
The Royal Exchange’s spring/summer 2017 season marks the second half of the theatre’s anniversary and sees the company taking inspiration from its own beginnings. In 1976, during a time of huge social and political upheaval, from the advent of Punk and the...
Shakespeare’s whirldwind comedy Twelfy Night comes to Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre in April and May, directed by award-winning Jo Davies, making her Royal Exchange debut. With credits including Don Carlo, Kiss Me, Kate, The Marriage of Fagaro and Carousel, Jo...
The Royal Exchange Theatre is set to host one of the world’s oldest dramas, Aeschylus’ The Suppliant Women. The new version by award-winning writer David Greig will be performed at the Royal Exchange from 10 March, running until 1 April, directed by Ramin Gray....
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...
Salford born actor, writer, musician and UK national poetry slam champion Tom Gill brings his award-winning debut show to Manchester's Royal Exchange following a sell-out run at Edinburgh Festival. Commissioned by Battersea Arts Centre, Growing Pains opens in The...
After tackling sex, climate change and homelessness the award winning Contact Young Company take on cancer. Directed by award winning artist Adura Onashile (HeLa; Expensive Sh*t) There is a Light: Brightlight will premiere at Contact, commissioned as part of SICK!...
A multi-sensory, immersive theatre show for audiences with Profound and Multiple Learning Disabilities is coming to The Lowry as part of a 59 date tour. The production, Home, has been devised by Frozen Light theatre company specifically for teenage and adult audiences...
Proto-type Theater's latest production A Machine They're Secretly Building comes to The Lowry for one night on 1 March as part of a national tour. Taking inspiration from a quote by Edward Snowden, the company have combined original text and classified intelligence...