Manchester International Festival has opened, with several world premières, including Kenneth Branagh’s Macbeth, the combination of gig and film in Massive Attack v Adam Curtis, Peter Sellars’s Michelangelo Sonnets with Eric Owens and Cameron Carpenter and screen star Willem Dafoe and dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov in Robert Wilson’s The Old Woman.
You can be a guest at the UK’s most notorious guesthouse when Basil, Sybil and Manuel host a Blackpool dining experience like no other!
The world tour of Faulty Towers The Dining Experience is at Blackpool’s Grand Theatre next week.
Strictly Confidential, at The Lowry in Salford, is a new show giving fans the chance to get up close and personal with Lisa Riley and other stars from the 2012 contest.
It’s written and directed by the TV show judge Craig Revel Horwood, and also stars dancers Artem Chigvintsey, Natalie Lowe and Ian Waite.
An anarchic larger-than-life version of Alexandr Ostrovsky’s Too Clever By Half bursts on to the stage of Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre from Wednesday through to August 17.
This new production of the Russian playwright’s best-known comedy is presented in association with the acclaimed theatre company Told By An Idiot.
In the wake of recent stories about kidnap victims, actress and writer Rosie MacPherson is set to perform her new theatre show Inside at The Lowry Studio in Salford before heading to Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
The play is performed next Thursday and Friday.
London-based contemporary performance company Unfinished Business brings together chaotic cooking and contemporary theatre in a unique performance... somewhere in Manchester.
Only Wolves and Lions creates a collaborative experience in which a group of strangers become a temporary community.
Details: www.contactmcr.com