Images have been released giving a first look at the world premiere production of An Officer and a Gentleman which comes to Manchester Opera House in August as part of a UK and Ireland tour. This brand-new musical is based on the 1982 Oscar-winning film starring Richard Gere which tells the story of Zack Mayo…
The Opera House Manchester hosts the English National Ballet and English National Ballet School’s My First Ballet series in April. The show gives young audiences a chance to see Swan Lake. Created especially for children as young as three and adapted to an hour in length with a narrator to help young audiences follow the…
Grimmfest, the Manchester based genre film festival, has announced the first ever Grimmfest Awards to celebrate its 10th anniversary. The new scheme will celebrate the very best genre titles selected for the annual festival as well as the creative teams behind them. The announcement comes as the build up towards during the submission period for…
Home Manchester presents the world premiere of Corrido de la Sangre by Olivier Award-winning and Grammy-nominated cult British music trio The Tiger Lillies. Filled with stunning visuals and original music, together with projected sets, Corrido de la Sangre forms part of Home’s ¡Viva! Spanish and Latin American Festival 2018. Corrido de la Sangre is the…
Multi-award winning Jess Robinson comes to The Lowry on her debut 28-date UK tour with her comedy impression and vocal gymnastics show Here Come The Girls. For Here Come The Girls, the classically trained Jess Robinson channels celebrities and singers to navigate her way through life’s highs and lows. Like a wonderfully malfunctioning jukebox, Jess…
One of comedy’s fastest rising stars, Mo Gilligan, is set to perform two Manchester shows at the Dancehouse Theatre and Manchester Academy. Fresh from recording his own huge Friday night entertainment show with Big Narstie for Channel 4 and racking up over 11 million hits to date of his set on The Russell Howard Hour…
The smash hit show Let It Be is bringing Beatlemania back to Manchester for a an eight show run at Manchester Opera House. Producers of the acclaimed show, featuring some of The Beatles best loved songs, have announced that Let It Be will be heading to venues across the UK – including Manchester – before…
As Cameron Mackintosh’s epic Miss Saigon arrives in Manchester for an eight week run at the Palace Theatre, we pick out ten things you may not know about one of the largest tour productions around. In fact, it features a cast of 38, orchestra of 15 and a technical team of 32 who bring the…
Motown The Musical will embark on a major UK and Ireland tour, stopping in Manchester for a run at Manchester Opera House in February 2019. Whilst the London production of Motown the Musical continues to run at the Shaftesbury Theatre, where it will shortly enter its third year, the producers behind the show are set…
Home Manchester hosts a brief production of Argentinean director Lola Arias’ Minefield as part of the venue’s 24th annual !Viva! Festival, celebrating theatre, film and contemporary visual art from Spain and Latin America. Playing for three performances, Minefield sees six real-life Falklands/Malvinas war veterans, who once faced each other across a battlefield, now face each…
