NW Productions

Published: 19 October 2014
Reporter: David Upton

Twelfth Night from English Touring Theatre at Blackpook Grand Credit: Mark Douet
Matt Lapinskas as Pharaoh, Lloyd Daniels as Joseph and Danielle Hope as Narrator in Joseph at the Palace Credit: Darren Bell
Horizontal Collaboration at The Dukes

Spend an entertaining evening with the Bard in Blackpool as English Touring Theatre brings William Shakespeare’s witty Twelfth Night to The Grand from Tuesday to Saturday.

The Royal Shakespeare Company returns to Salford’s Lowry arts centre next week with Henry IV Parts I and II, starring Jasper Britton and Antony Sher.

An all-star cast including Greater Manchester's own West End star Danielle Hope—winner of BBC's Over the Rainbow search for Dorothy TV show—will be appearing in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at the Palace Theatre next week.

Manchester-based writer, performance artist—and Intensive Care specialist—Dr Tuheen Huda returns to The Lowry Studio next Thursday and Friday with his new production Transmissions.

Fresh from the Lyric Hammersmith and Edinburgh Festival, Secret Theatre—which features four new plays from four of the UK’s most exciting playwrights—arrives at Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre from Tuesday to November 1.

Vertigo Theatre Productions stages the new play Watching Goldfish Suffocate at the new Great Northern Playhouse in Manchester.

Moscow Ballet La Classique returns to Preston Charter Theatre next Wednesday with the most popular of all classical ballets: Swan Lake.

A one-off theatre experience for both cast and audience comes to The Dukes in Lancaster next Friday. Written and directed by the multi-award winning ‘maverick’ David Leddy, Horizontal Collaboration is brought to The Dukes by Lancaster University arts organisation Live at LICA.

1956 Theatre will present its physical comedy adaptation of Hitchcock's classic silent thriller The Lodger as part of its Manchester rep season at Salford Arts Theatre from 23 to 25 October.

DV8 Physical Theatre brings its new verbatim dance-theatre work by Lloyd Newson, John, to Liverpool Playhouse on 23 and 24 October.

It's strictly adults only at Journey into Hell, based on Dante's Inferno, at Liverpool's St George's Hall, which runs from 23 to 25 and 29 to 31 October as part of Liverpool Shocktober.

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