NW Productions

Published: 17 March 2013
Reporter: David Upton

Thick As Thieves from AxsysTheatre at the King's Arms
Declan Wilson as Frank in Thrasher at New Continental
NVA's Speed of Light Credit: Amano Studio

AxsysTheatre stages Thick as Thieves, by Oldham-based writer Mark Whiteley at the King's Arms in Salford from Thursday to Saturday. It’s a comedy about two men who break into someone's house, and it all goes a bit wrong...

David Crowley and Matthew Lanigan will be performing the piece, directed by Ian Curley.

Preston Opera takes over the city’s Charter Theatre from Wednesday to Saturday with its production of Verdi’s La Traviata.

A white knuckle ride of betrayal, debt, and lost innocence is promised, when Conor McKee’s 2011 sell-out smash Thrasher heads to the Continental in Preston next Thursday.

New Jersey Nights at Manchester Opera House from Tuesday to Saturday, celebrates the greatest hits of the internationally-successful American band The Four Seasons—fronted by Frankie Valli—who shot to worldwide fame in the mid-1960s.

Hundreds of runners will create a human work of art, illuminating The Quays in Salford over three nights next week, in a series of performances to bring the former industrial docklands to life in a celebration of movement, light and sound.

Details: www.nvaspeedoflight.org.uk

Vada, the UK’s only LGBTQ Community Theatre Company based in Manchester, presents Love + Other Calculations, which celebrates the theme of this year’s LGBT History Month next Monday, Wednesday and Thursday.

Richard Alston Dance Company brings a triple-bill to The Lowry on Tuesday night, including the brand new choreography, Shimmer, with costumes by fashion designer Julien Macdonald, and The Devil in the Detail inspired by King of Ragtime Scott Joplin.

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