NW Productions

Published: 17 May 2015
Reporter: David Upton

Jarreau Benjamin as Len Johnson Credit: Shay Rowan
Cuddles Credit: Alex Beckett

A young actress who first fell in love with theatre at the Dukes in Lancaster returns the compliment when she comes back to play Juliet in a professional Shakespeare production.

Regent Park Open Air Theatre’s acclaimed production of Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel To Kill A Mockingbird comes to The Lowry in Salford.

Cuddles, at the Royal Exchange in Manchester, was created in the wake of the London riots and is a damning look at how society teaches us that what we consume dictates our identity.

Manchester-born Danny Boyle, the 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony supremo, will launch a funfair-themed Bank Holiday weekend celebration of Manchester's new centre for international contemporary art, theatre and film: HOME.

The critically-acclaimed Best New Musical of 2014, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, returns to Manchester Opera House.

Benedict Power Productions perform Spring Reign at The Lowry in Salford. Written by award-winning playwright Rob Johnston, the play focuses on the experiences of an ordinary Syrian family as their country descends into war.

Award-winning play Len Johnson Fighter is at The Octagon Theatre Bolton on Wednesday and Thursday. The play tells the story of the greatest British middleweight boxer never to be champion.

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