The Spooky cabaret coming to Manchester
Rocky’s Shop of Horrors will take place at Manchester’s Sonata Piano and Cabaret Lounge, featuring storytelling, drag, music and poetry.
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Contact to celebrate 50th birthday with The Big Banquet
Contact has announced its final 50th birthday celebration, The Big Banquet, featuring an array of events, parties and workshops across one weekend.
Refract: 22 set to launch at Waterside
Waterside’s annual, experimental summer festival returns later this month for ten days of performance, music and events.
Previewed: The House with Chicken Legs at HOME Mcr
HOME and Les Enfants Terribles will present the theatrical debut of Sophie Anderson’s The House With Chicken Legs.
What’s Love Got To Do With It? Tour coming to Manchester
The huge UK tour What’s Love Got To Do With It? celebrating the music of Tina Turner will head to Manchester.
Toxic – A men’s mental health play to feature at Greater Manchester Fringe
A new play from Dan Lovatt aims to shine a light on men’s mental health when it features at Greater Manchester Fringe Festival.
Elysium Theatre Company to stream latest production
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...
School of Rock heading to Manchester’s Palace Theatre
The smash hit, award-winning West End show School of Rock - The Musical has confirmed a UK and Ireland tour including Manchester's Palace Theatre. Auditions are currently in full flow, with casting due to be announced later this summer for the stage production of the...
HOME launch temporary outdoor theatre venue
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...
Rent set to open at Hope Mill Theatre in August
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...
Drive in Horrible Histories opening in Manchester
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...
Drive in Tina Turner tribute coming to Manchester’s Trafford Centre
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...
Hope Mill Theatre’s Turn On Fest 2021 postponed
Following the recent announcement of a further national lockdown, Hope Mill Theatre have confirmed that Turn On Fest 2021 has been postponed. Rescheduled dates are to be announced in due course. [adrotate banner="3"] In a statement from Hope Mill Theatre, the venue...
Contact Theatre appoint UK’s first chair under the age of 30 at major performing arts venue
Contact Theatre has appointed Junior Akinola as the Chair of their Board of Trustees. The former Contact alumni, writer and BBC Assistant Content Producer becomes the first chair under the age of 30 to lead the board of a major performing arts venue in the UK. He...
HOME Manchester’s November shows to be live streamed
HOME Manchester has announced that all of November's theatre shows will be live streamed during lockdown. The culture venue will make tickets for the shows streaming from the Theatre 1 stage available on a pay-what-you-decide basis. [adrotate banner="3"] Following...