NW Productions

Published: 15 June 2014
Reporter: David Upton

Sara Poyzer and Niamh Perry in Mamma Mia! international tour at Blackpool Opera House Credit: Brinkhoff & Mögenburg
Entertaining Mr Sloane at Blackpool Grand
Lauren Samuels (Jenny) and Daniel Boys (Oliver) in rehearsals for Love Story at the Octagon, Bolton Credit: Ray Jefferson, Bolton Camera Club

Niamh Perry will play the role of Sophie in the Mamma Mia! international tour when it plays its exclusive UK summer season at Blackpool Opera House from next week.

Joe Orton’s scandalous comedy Entertaining Mr Sloane books into Blackpool’s Grand Theatre from Monday to Saturday.

Billy Liar—the classic tale of Northern life in the 1960s—comes to Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre through to July 12.

TV talent show stars Daniel Boys and Lauren Samuels turn up in Love Story at the Octagon Theatre Bolton from Thursday to July 12 (hear them both talking about the show on our podcast episode about this production).

A lively new adaptation of Chaucer’s The Pardoner’s Tale comes to The Studio at Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre from Wednesday to June 28.

Contact Young Actors Company in Manchester next week embarks on an exploration of what it means to be marginalised. I’d Like to Say Something follows the stories of people united by their feelings of being pushed out.

Lancaster City Museum will be at the centre of a drama The Rest is History, a new play by The Dukes Senior Youth Theatre from June 19-21.

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