Twenty years of plays presented by drama students at Lancaster’s Dukes theatre are celebrated from next week. The mini anniversary season for St Martin’s College in Lancaster in The Round kicks off Wednesday to Friday with Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
State Vs John Hayes by Lucy Roslyn will be part of the opening 2015 season at The Lowry, Salford Quays next Thursday. In Huntsville prison, Texas, 1959. Elyese Dukie is on Death Row for the murder of two people.
Following a recent sell-out run at the Octagon Theatre Bolton, Dave Simpson’s Blind Date returns to Joshua Brooks in Manchester next week for three performances before it receives its London première.
LipService is back with its cult Brontë spoof Withering Looks which takes an "authentic" look at the lives and works of the sisters. It’s at Sale’s Waterside Arts Centre from January 21-24 and forms part of a series of 30th anniversary celebration events.
The spring 2015 UK tour of Magical Mozart By Candlelight comes to Stockport’s Plaza Theatre next Wednesday.
Following two sell-out Edinburgh runs, two West End seasons and UK tours, Luke Kempner—star of YouTube hit Downstairs At Downton and the musicals Les Miserables and Avenue Q—once again tours his solo show The Only Way Is Downton around the UK coming to Liverpool’s Unity venue this week.