Shakespeare’s Othello is just one of the highlights of Preston’s continuing Tringe Festival.
The Bard’s tragedy will be performed at the city’s New Continental in South Meadow Lane next Wednesday and Thursday by Lancashire-based Theatre by Numbers before they perform it in Manchester next month and ahead of a New Year tour.
Actress Sue McCormick has enjoyed a successful career as a character actress but missed out on the star roles. Her experiences have now inspired her to write No Fat Juliets which premières at The Dukes in Lancaster next Thursday.
Her story, a co-production with Oldham Coliseum Theatre, features new songs, snogs and bags of Northern spirit, she says.
When rock ‘n’ roll musical Dreamboats and Petticoats comes to Blackpool’s Grand Theatre this week it can boast a direct connection to the era of music it celebrates.
The whirl around the jukebox show stars musical legend Mark Wynter—who was hardly out of the charts from August 1960 until the end of 1963.
Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre launches its new season with a major revival of Arthur Miller’s All My Sons which opens on Wednesday and runs to October 26.
The co-production with Talawa Theatre Company will feature two of the country’s most distinguished actors—Don Warrington MBE and Doña Croll who play Joe and Kate Keller.
Willy Russell’s comedy Educating Rita opens the autumn programme from the Library Theatre Company at The Lowry in Salford.
The production starts next Thursday and runs until October 12. It will be directed by Chris Honer, the company’s artistic director.
Birmingham Royal Ballet returns to The Lowry in Salford this week, its home in the North West, when Lancastrian Yvette Knight will dance the role of Princess Aurora and The Lilac Fairy in Sir Peter Wright’s timeless production of The Sleeping Beauty.
Liverpool’s Epstein Theatre welcomes Scotland’s favourite childrens’ entertainers The Singing Kettle next Saturday with a special afternoon singalong show.
The Singing Kettle Wild West Party launches Epsteinies; the theatre’s family theatre programme strand.