New festival Alty Fringe is helping bring live theatre back to Manchester with a one week event at Altrincham’s Garrick Theatre. The #AltyFringe will bring live theatre, dance, comedy and music to the venue in November, showcasing talent from around the region and beyond. [adrotate banner=”3″] Running Monday 23 to Sunday 29 November, the week…
Remix, imitating the dog and Leeds Playhouse are bringing the raucous and dark outdoor production Dr Blood’s Old Travelling Show to The Lowry. The performance follows the success of their critically acclaimed stage recreation of George A. Romero’s zombie classic Night Of The Living Dead at HOME Manchester. [adrotate banner=”3″] The 30 minute production is…
The first live event since March will take place at HOME Manchester’s theatre when poetry and spoken word collective Young Identity launch their new book. HOME’s Resident Artists Young Identity will be launching their new book, Working From HOME, with an evening of emceeing, poetry and performance as they showcase their creative responses to work…
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…
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 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…
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…
