NW Productions

Published: 12 July 2014
Reporter: David Upton

Dinosaur Zoo at the Palace Theatre, Manchester
Andrew Pollard (Phileas Fogg) and Michael Hugo (Jean Passepartout) in Around the World in Eighty Days Credit: Andrew Billington
Beyond The Park at Three Minute Theatre

Audiences at the Palace Theatre in Manchester can get up close and personal to a host of prehistoric monsters this week, when dinosaurs rampage into the city. Australian-based creators of the Dinosaur Zoo show Erth use ingenious puppetry to bring the creatures to life in this interactive and imaginative live show.

EastEnders actress Melissa Suffield (Lucy Beale in the hit soap) returns to Blackpool North Pier Theatre on Wednesday to star in the title role of the pier’s family-friendly traditional pantomime Cinderella.

Around The World In Eighty Days—Jules Verne’s epic tale of Victorian eccentricity, romance and adventure—spins on to the stage of Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre from Thursday through to August 16.

Lloyd Eyre-Morgan is the writer/director of a new Northern stage drama, Beyond The Park, at Manchester’s intimate 3MT venue in the city’s Affleck Palace next week.

To The Dam premières next week at the 24:7 Theatre Festival in Manchester. The city’s annual event showcases ten new productions in intimate venues at New Century House, Corporation Street.

Now in its third year, an award-nominated festival of LGBT theatre is, for the first time, heading to Liverpool’s Unity Theatre. Grin Theatre Company presents Queertet 2014, which features plays from three Liverpool writers and an international playwright from New York.

PaperMash Theatre present a one-woman comedy based on the fictional performance artist Violet Fox at Joshua Brooks in Manchester this week—exploring a growing cultural obsession with autobiography through songs, impersonations, and satire.

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