NW Productions

Published: 22 March 2015
Reporter: David Upton

Jodie Prenger in Calamity Jane a the Palace Theatre, Manchester Credit: Manuel Harlan
12 Angry Men at The Lowry
Matt Addis and Janine Birkett in rehearsals for Two at Theatre by the Lake Credit: Steve Barber

Jodie Prenger stars as the whip-cracking, sharp-shooting Calamity Jane in a brand new production of the classic musical coming to Palace Theatre in Manchester this week.

Multi-award-winning star of stage and screen Tom Conti stars in 12 Angry Men at The Lowry this week following its record-breaking West End run.

Moscow City Ballet returns to Manchester this week with two of their most famous and best loved classical ballets Giselle and Swan Lake.

Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre is to stage the world première of Brink—a collaboration between award-winning writer Jackie Kay and the theatre’s Young Company—in The Studio from next Thursday to March 29.

The Life & Loves of a Nobody asks how far a nobody will go to become a ‘somebody’. It’s at the Lowry in Salford next Thursday and Friday and is suitable for ages 14+.

The Octagon Theatre is staging Noël Coward’s fashionable comedy of manners, Private Lives, starting this week.

1956 Theatre’s production of David Mamet's Sexual Perversity in Chicago is at Salford Arts Theatre next week.

Pirouetting and spinning, Turn lands at Contact in Manchester for its fourth year. It all starts next Friday.

Two by Jim Cartwright, has opened at Keswick’s Theatre by the Lake.

Hindle Wakes is the famous Northern play which centres on a millworker’s holiday fling with the owner’s son and the ructions it causes. It arrives at The Dukes in Lancaster this week.

Waterloo - The Best of Abba Tribute show comes to Lancaster’s Grand Theatre next Thursday.

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