NW Productions

Published: 19 October 2015
Reporter: David Upton

Helen Goalen and Bettrys Jones in We Want You to Watch Credit: Richard Davenport

London Contemporary Theatre stages George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion at Preston Charter Theatre on Wednesday night.

Candoco Dance Company, leading contemporary dance company of disabled and non-disabled performers, brings a new double bill, CounterActs, to the Grand Theatre, Blackpool on Wednesday.

I loved you and I loved you, at Edge Hill arts centre Ormskirk on Wednesday night sees multi-award winning choreographer Sally Marie present a blend of music, theatre and dance to depict the richly romantic life of Morfydd Owen, one of Wales's most distinguished classical composers.

Blackpool Opera House hosts the world première of brand new musical Last Night a DJ Saved My Life, starring the Hoff—as David Hasselhoff is known to his millions of fans.

Award-winning director Blanche McIntyre directs former Poet Laureate Ted Hughes’s translation of the classic Greek play The Oresteia which opens at HOME in Manchester.

The Lowry presents Mahogany Opera Group’s Lost in Thought: A Mindfulness Opera on Sunday and Monday.

We Want You To Watch was one of the most talked about plays at London’s National Theatre this year. It's now touring, coming to The Lowry in Salford next Thursday and Friday.

A new Manchester theatre company opens its doors for the first time with a re-telling of modern love story Blink at the Salford Arts Theatre, running from Thursday to Saturday. Wonderhouse Theatre was launched in September by David Gregan-Jones and Charlotte Tyree, who starred as Fay Dean in This is England '88.

Next week, sees the première of Darren Pritchard’s Body of Light at Manchester’s Studio at Z-arts, as part of the Black Gold Arts Festival.

Jazz maestro Django Reinhardt is brought to life in Little Bulb Theatre’s Orpheus at the Everyman in Liverpool. Theatregoers will be transported to 1930s Paris, as the Everyman hosts this musical re-imagining of the epic Greek myth, from 20 to 24 October.

Lancaster Arts associate artists Quarantine next week previews its newest work, Autumn, at Lancaster University’s Nuffield Theatre, after developing and creating the piece at its new home in the city.

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