Z-arts, alongside Manchester International Festival, Theatre-Rites and Ruhrtrieniale Festival of the Arts have commissioned a new production, The Welcoming Party. The Welcoming Party, which will be performed at the 1830 Warehouse of the museum of Science and Industry in July, will be a site-specific mix of installation, live music, puppetry and dance for families and…
With the ¡Viva! 2017 Festival now in full swing at home, we take a look as some of the theatre shows coming up: Birdie Thursday 6 and Friday 7 April – UK Premiere Presented by Agrupación Señor Serrano Birdie is a multimedia performance with live video, objects, Hitchcock’s The Birds revisited, scale models, 2000 mini…
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 The Beanfield, which ran at Home in 2016. Tank won…
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 thousands of people every week to wrestling arenas across the country. Featuring…
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 two hours. The incredible sales come after yesterday’s…
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 2017. The Band is a new…
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 us on a journey through her long and tumultuous life, a…
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 also feature many of the cast from the record…
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, directed by award-winning theatre and opera director Jay Scheib. Jim…
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 uncompromising activism of art, a radical group of theatre makers reclaimed Manchester’s vast,…
