Manchester’s annual Spanish and Latin American Film Festival, Viva!, is set to compete it’s three-part 2015 run in early November with a specially curated programme featuring the best in new Spanish cinema. The third (long) weekend of movies takes place at Home from Thursday 5 November until Monday 9 November, and features two UK premiers,…
Bruntwood Award-winning writer Alistair McDowall’s sinister and surreal thriller Pomona arrives at the Royal Exchange Theatre following its critically acclaimed premiere at The Orange Tree Theatre in 2014. Set on Manchester’s deserted island of Pomona, Ned Bennett directs this dystopian adventure where urban myth and reality collide. Restaged in association with the Royal Exchange Theatre…
Double session run in association with Gothic Manchester Festival Grimm Up North are set to present two classic Lovecraft movies at Manchester Metropolitan University’s Geoffrey manton Building. HP Lovecraft inspired generations of literary greats with his text, but his inspiration of 80’s horror films isn’t to be overlooked, and Grimm Up North are celebrating with…
Actress and 1956 Theatre Artistic Director Amy-Jane Ollies has released her debut play, Wolf, which was first performed by 1956 Theatre as part of their hugely successful Manchester Rep Season. Addressing the relationships between family and friends, Wolf looks at the effect of a lack of communication, honesty and lies and how these can cause events…
Classic Greek play on politics and justice Award winning leading theatre director Blanche McIntyre (pictured) is set to direct former Poet Laureate Ted Hughes’ translation of classic Greek play The Oresteia at Home from 23 October until 14 November. The play’s central themes of politics and justice alongside its visceral text will be played out…
Next week, Thursday 22 October sees the première of the achingly beautiful, seamless dreamscape of imagery that is Darren Pritchard’s Body of Light, coming to the STUN Studio at Z-arts as part of the Black Gold Arts Festival (22-24 October). Co-presented by STUN and Word of Warning, and created using no more than a games…
Award winning actor Don Warrington, currently to be seen in BBC’s hugely successful series Death in Paradise, has been announced to take the role of Lear in a Royal Exchange Theatre and Talawa Theatre Company co-production of King Lear. Don Warrington has had a long standing relationship with Talawa Theatre Company and commented on the…
Award winning production comes to Home The multi-award winning theatre company 1927 is set to bring their critically acclaimed production Golem to Manchester’s Home. The performance follows a sold-out and extended run at Christmas at the Young Vic in London, following which it received a West End transfer to Trafalgar Studios and performances in Salzburg,…
The first ever UK and Ireland tour of Billy Elliot the Musical has been announced and is set to call in at Manchester’s Palace Theatre for a run of dates from 29 November 2016 – 18 January 2017. Based on the highly successful film, the show is set in a northern mining town against the…
With worldwide smash hit musical Footloose set to burst back on to the stage in 2016 (including a run at Manchester Palace Theatre from 14 – 19 March), Gareth Gates has been named in the role of Willard. Based on the 1984 screen sensation starring Kevin Bacon, Footloose: The Musical tells the story of city boy…
