Kill The Beast, The Lowry’s Associate Artists, returns to its home venue for an in-demand encore of He Had Hairy Hands, inspired by Hammer Horror and Scooby Doo. The première wowed Salford audiences in The Lowry’s Studio last year and saw the Manchester-based company Kill The Beast scoop the 2014 Manchester Theatre Award for Best Studio Production. Catch it next Friday and Saturday.
English Touring Opera is returning to Blackpool from Monday to Tuesday for a season of Italian opera at The Grand Theatre. It's their first performance in Lancashire for more than five years, and the first in Blackpool for a decade.
A dynamic new dance show performed by an all-male cast struts its way on to The Dukes stage in Lancaster next Wednesday. The many faces of man will be revealed through dance in Beauty of the Beast, a funny yet moving show performed with style by six outstanding male dancers from the award-winning Manchester-based Company Chameleon.
Young people from across the county and beyond will be dancing in the streets of Lancaster during Lancashire Youth Dance Festival from May 15-16. The Dukes and Ludus Dance have joined forces again for the seventh annual showcase at the city centre theatre.
The Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester and Told by an Idiot continue their collaboration with a new production of Arnold Ridley’s The Ghost Train—they previously worked together on You Can’t Take It With You and Too Clever By Half. The production opens on May 19, with previews from May 14, and runs until June 20.
The creative team behind last year’s acclaimed Romeo & Juliet in Manchester reunites for the city’s debut production in its new £25m city centre HOME venue. Double Olivier Award-winner Simon Stephens relocates The Funfair from the 1929 Oktoberfest to north west England and draws striking parallels with the political tensions and social uncertainties of early 21st century Great Britain.
So It Goes, the critically-acclaimed debut from On The Run theatre company, was made seven years after co-creator Hannah Moss lost her own father to cancer. The hour-long show is suitable for ages 12+ and can be seen at The Lowry in Salford next Friday.
Small Things Theatre Company stages a performance-lecture How Do you See Me? at Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal next Thursday. In an age when culture is obsessed with youth, how does a person’s sense of their own identity change as they get older?