NW Productions

Published: 10 February 2013
Reporter: David Upton

Mark Benton, Lucy Benjamin, Freya Sutton, Marcus Collins, Sandra Marvin Credit: Ben Blackall
Company Chameleon: Pictures we Make
Me, as a Penguin rehearsal

Mark Benton, Lucy Benjamin, Marcus Collins and newcomer Freya Sutton lead the cast of the smash hit musical Hairspray, when it comes to the The Lowry, in Salford this week.

Hairspray runs from Monday to February 23.

The UK tour of international smash hit musical Priscilla Queen Of The Desert opens at Manchester Opera House tomorrow and runs to February 23.

Jason Donovan will reprise the role of Tick, the part he played when the show originally opened in the West End.

Teenagers from Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre Young Company are set to perform a challenging new play as part of NT Connections—a nationwide festival of new writing and young theatre talent.

I’m Spilling My Heart Out Here by Stacey Gregg is in The Studio at the Exchange from February 14-16.

Manchester duo, Company Chameleon, join forces with Goddard Nixon for the world première of Pictures We Make, commissioned by The Lowry, in Salford, next Thursday.

Me, as a Penguin launches a season of productions at Manchester’s newest fringe venue, the Houldsworth Rep in Little Lever Street.

The theatre is a brand-new 50-seat fringe venue in the Northern Quarter, run by Sally Lawton.

Tuesday evening sees Preston officially welcome in the Chinese New Year—of the Snake—with an evening of music, opera and dance, featuring the Sichuan Song & Dance Troupe at the city’s Charter Theatre.

The chilling facts and personal stories behind the work of the nation’s hangmen and those they executed are on exhibition at The Dukes gallery in Lancaster to coincide with the run of the theatre’s co-production of Pierrepoint—The Hangman’s Tale.

Following an acclaimed theatre debut with Ten, visual artist Hetain Patel returns to Lancaster University’s Nuffield stage in collaboration with dancer Yuyu Rau and digital artist Barret Hodgson on Tuesday night.

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