NW Productions

Published: 11 May 2014
Reporter: David Upton

Oliver Johnstone and Aoife Duffin in Spring Awakening for Headlong Credit: Tristram Kenton
Killing Roger Credit: Idil Sukan
The It's Not Fair

Following last year’s hit production of 1984, Headlong return to Liverpool Playhouse with a radical new version of Frank Wedekind’s ‘children’s tragedy’ Spring Awakening from May 13-17.

The Grumpy Old Women brings their 50 Shades of Beige tour to the region over the next few days, including Blackpool Grand on Tuesday and next Saturday at the Lowry in Salford.

Life-sized puppetry and live music help tell the story of two unlikely friends at opposite ends of their lives at The Dukes in Lancaster next Thursday. Killing Roger will be performed as part of a national tour and following five-star runs in London and at Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Hundreds of the region’s most talented young dancers—from Preston, Lancaster, Blackpool and several other areas—are involved in the Lancashire Youth Dance Festival at the Dukes in Lancaster next Friday and Saturday.

A major new production of the Tony Award-winning version of Irving Berlin's classic musical Annie Get Your Gun launches at the Opera House, Manchester starring Jason Donovan, Emma Williams and Norman Pace.

The Octagon Theatre in Bolton hosts one of the UK’s best-loved comedy dramas: Brassed Off, at the end of its national tour. It runs from next Thursday to June 14.

Manchester theatregoers will be confronted with £10,000 in real pound coins on stage as part of Money The Game Show—a new show about the madness of the financial system—which comes to The Studio at the Royal Exchange Theatre from next Thursday to Saturday as part of a national tour.

The lives and loves of a group of young bohemians in Paris return to The Lowry in Salford in Opera North’s blockbuster production of La Bohème; one of the most popular and heartbreaking operas of all time.

Award-winning theatre production company Organised Chaos Productions brings its latest collaboration, Boy On A Bed by Edwin Preece, to the Lowry Studio in Salford next Thursday and Friday.

The It’s Not Fair, written by Mike Peacock, a Manchester writer, actor and director, is at Altrincham Methodist Church next Friday. It’s a collection of tales of human trafficking taken from all over the world.

The Future is Unwritten comes to The Met in Bury next Wednesday with a brand new comedy about passion, patriotism, football and Englishness: England Away.

In November 1978, 918 US citizens committed mass suicide in a secluded settlement in the Guyanese rainforest. White Night is a documentary play by Nick Birchill attempting to retell the ‘whole story’ at Waterside Arts Centre in Sale from next Thursday to Saturday.

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