NW Productions

Published: 5 March 2017
Reporter: David Upton

Borderland at Oldham Coliseum
Luke Wright at The Edge Credit: Idil Sukan

The team behind 2015's Oldham-based musical Dreamers return to Oldham Coliseum Theatre with another brand new musical. Meat Pie, Sausage Roll runs to March 25.

Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre stages The Suppliant Women by Aeschylus, in a new version featuring, at its heart, a chorus of 40 women and men from across Greater Manchester. It runs from March 10 to April 1.

An all-new tour of the musical Grease opens at the Palace Theatre, Manchester with an all-star cast.

Original cast members Linda Bassett, Deborah Findlay, Kika Markham, and June Watson, from last year’s sell-out run at London’s Royal Court star in Caryl Churchill’s Escaped Alone when it comes to The Lowry in Salford.

A 12-stong cast stage the international première of wartime love story Yank! which opens in Manchester at Hope Mill Theatre.

Manchester’s award-winning Contact Young Company take on cancer when There is a Light: Brightlight will première at Contact, commissioned as part of the SICK! Festival before embarking on two national tours.

Public Burning Theatre comes to Oldham Coliseum Theatre Studio next Thursday and Friday with Borderland, a story of race, sexuality and power set in Oldham.

After the success of his first stage play, What I Learned From Johnny Bevan, poet Luke Wright returns to his performing poems from his new book The Toll at Manchester’s The Edge next Friday.

Storyteller Ursula Holden Gill will host Happily Ever After: Exploring Fairy Tales at The Lowry next Sunday. Inspired by Opera North’s Fairy Tale Season, it should appeal to children from 4 to 7.

Comedian, actor and writer Ruby Wax brings her Frazzled show to Preston Charter Theatre on Monday night.

David Walliams’s Gangsta Granny steals her way into Preston Charter Theatre next Wednesday night appearances all the way through to Sunday.

Coronation Street and Dinner Ladies actress Shobna Gulati stars as Daljit in a new tour of Anita And Me, which comes to the Grand in Blackpool from Thursday to Saturday.

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