NW Productions

Published: 16 October 2016
Reporter: David Upton

Uchenna Dance's The Head Wrap Diaries at The Lowry Credit: Foteini Christofilopolou
Michael Clark Company at The Lowry

Michael Clark Company returns to The Lowry with a new work to a simple, rock ’n’ roll... song.—the third act of which is set to the music of David Bowie, including the title track from his final album, Blackstar.

Playwright Alan Ayckbourn’s first great West End success, Relatively Speaking, is revived at The Lowry in Salford, starring stage and TV actors Robert Powell and Liza Goddard.

Seven provocative new plays and four debates are at the heart of the Royal Exchange Theatre’s B!RTH, an international theatre festival designed to generate debate on the vast inequality in healthcare across the world.

Internationally-acclaimed physical theatre company Gecko comes to Manchester’s HOME with Institute, an intimate exploration of what it means to care.

Bolton’s Octagon Theatre Bolton and its university present Shakespeare’s epic Winter’s Tale, marking the 400th anniversary of the writer’s death.

Uchenna Dance's The Head Wrap Diaries at The Lowry in Salford on Tuesday is a 60-minute dance theatre production, told through the eyes of a black woman.

Death By Pie presents The House On Hallowed Ground at The King’s Arms, Salford from next Thursday to Saturday.

A stage play about the life of acclaimed author Helen Forrester heads to Preston Charter Theatre as part of a new tour. Twopence to Cross the Mersey runs from Wednesday to Saturday, including two matinées.

There may be no more Shakespeare productions to haunt Lancaster Castle but that doesn’t stop the eighth annual Ghostly Tales being held there next Friday and Saturday.

A tribute act that has been given its own tribute at a national music awards ceremony, comes to Blackpool Grand Theatre. Walk Like A Man charts the musical journey of Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons.

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