NW productions

Published: 21 May 2017
Reporter: David Upton

Bill Ward and Laura Whitmore star in Not Dead Enough by Peter James Credit: Helen Maybanks
Joanne Clifton in Thoroughly Modern Millie Credit: Darren Bell
Soweto Skeleton Movers at Breakin' Convention, Blackpool Grand Theatre Credit: Paul Hampartsoumian

Murder by Gaslight, at Preston Guild Hall’s Lancaster Suite venue next Thursday afternoon is an intimate audience with two of the most infamous poisoners in British history.

HOME in Manchester next week stages a major UK revival of a critically-acclaimed play Rose, starring Academy Award nominee Dame Janet Suzman.

Actor Bill Ward, who made a murderous exit from ITV’s Coronation Street, makes an equally dramatic return to the stage of Manchester Opera House next week in an adaptation of multi-million selling author Peter James’s Not Dead Enough.

Jeff James, one of the UK’s most original young theatre makers, adapts and directs a bold retelling of Jane Austen’s final masterpiece Persuasion at the Royal Exchange in Manchester from next week.

Strictly Come Dancing’s Joanne Clifton heads to the Palace Theatre, Manchester, next week to star in the lead role in hit musical Thoroughly Modern Millie.

Reckless Sleepers’ revival of its production Schrödinger at Contact in Manchester next week finds relevance in today’s political and social climate.

Theatre Témoin’s The Marked is on a UK tour of regional homeless ‘hotspots’, using mask, puppetry and physical theatre to navigate real-life stories of homelessness. It will be at The Lowry in Salford on Saturday and The Hub, also in Salford, on Sunday June 4.

Scamp Theatre will visit Waterside Arts Centre in Sale with its adaptation of The Scarecrows' Wedding by Gruffalo creators Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler from May 26 to 28.

International hip hop dance theatre crews will descend on Blackpool's Grand Theatre for Breakin' Convention from Sadler's Wells on Saturday 27 May.

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