Present Laughter

Noël Coward

Little Miss Sunshine

James Lapine and William Finn

Stones in His Pockets

Marie Jones

Cash Cow

Oli Forsyth

Summer Rolls

Tuyen Do

Hänsel & Gretel

Engelbert Humperdinck

After Dark; or, a Drama of London Life

Dion Boucicault, Based on Les Oiseaux de Proie by Eugène Grangé and Adolphe d...

The Mob Reformers

Omar El-Khairy

Don Carlos

Verdi

Yellow is the Colour of Sunshine

Brendan Murray

The Mother

Based on a story by Hans Christian Andersen, choreography / director Arthur Pita

Much Ado About Not(h)ing

William Shakespeare

Yvonne Arnaud Youth Theatre performs in community

Members of the Yvonne Arnaud Youth Theatre's production group performed at the Pilgrim Wood Residential and Dementia Care Home.

Billy Zane narrates film of WWI avante-garde theatre piece

Hollywood superstar Billy Zane will narrate a 50-minute arthouse production of Vernon Lee and Maxwell Armfield's The Ballet of Nations: A Present-Day Morality from 1915.

Wind In The Willows on tour

Stolen Thread CIC's open-air rendition of The Wind in the Willows is on tour from July 23.

Mum's first play—performed by daughter

Best Girl is a new one-woman play written for this year’s GMFringe.

Diva delights for Manchester fringe

Anita Giovannini brings her show Anita Luna The Diva to Greater Manchester Fringe.

Once upon a Lowry time

Broadway and West End musical Once comes to The Lowry next year.

String-driven Washing Machine takes a spin

SLAM Theatre's How to Use a Washing Machine is on tour for the summer.

Jackie Kay memoir for Manchester

The National Theatre of Scotland and HOME in Manchester present the soul-searching memoir Red Dust Road by Jackie Kay.

Karen O'Neill takes on Dukes director role

Karen O’Neill will become director at the Dukes Theatre in Lancaster.

Two versions of story for Studio Creole

Irish film and theatre actor Lisa Dwan stars in Studio Créole for the Manchester International Festival, a performance piece that reinvents the language lab.

Getting creative about the Future

HOME in Manchester has launched Future 20, its second year-long artist residency and training programme for emerging artists aged 18–25.

Teenage take on Cinderella

PROM! The Musical is at Oldham Coliseum, July 24–27.

Touring News – May 2019

Sandra Giorgetti looks at the tours that take to the road next month including the inaugural tour of Wildcard with Electrolyte, The Tiger Lillies' 30th anniversary tour with Devil’s Fairground and Jonny Cotsen's Louder Is Not Always Clearer about how he negotiates life as a deaf man in a hearing world.

Michael Longhurst’s first press briefing at the Donmar Warehouse

Donmar Warehouse incoming Artistic Director Michael Longhurst announces an exciting opening season.

Touring News: April 2019

Sandra Giorgetti looks at the tours that take to the road next month including a circus in miniature for babies aged 0-18 Inside Little Top and the comically gothic poem The Mystery of the Raddlesham Mumps from poet and performer Murray Lachlan Young, for those enjoying Easter school holidays.

Easter shows for kids across the North East

19 North East theatres are presenting over 30 children’s shows over Easter

Touring News – March 2019

Sandra Giorgetti looks at the tours that take to the road next month and sees that themes of identity and finding oneself run through many shows including Papatango Prize winning The Funeral Director, Chris Thorpe's Status, The Picture of Dorian Gray and even Passionate Machine in which the first female time travelling doctor gets stuck in the past.

Man of La Mancha Launch at the London Coliseum

The latest ENO musical launched at the London Coliseum with a panel discussion between Matt Wolf, producer Michael Linnit and four of the show's stars, Kelsey Grammer, Danielle de Niese Nicholas Lyndhurst and Cassidy Janson