NW Productions

Published: 25 October 2015
Reporter: David Upton

Strike at the Nuffield
Sam Ferriday, Matt Corner, Stephen Webb and Lewis Griffiths in Jersey Boys Credit: Helen Maybanks

The musical Jersey Boys returns to Manchester from Tuesday to November 7 with a brand new cast (hear co-writer Rick Elice, producer David Ian, production manager Richard Hester and past cast members on the BTG podcast).

Tony Maudsley, from ITV’s Benidorm will play Edna Turnblad when the 40-week UK tour of Hairspray comes to Manchester’s Palace Theatre.

Award-winning writer Alistair McDowall’s sinister and surreal thriller Pomona arrives at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester next week following its critically-acclaimed première at The Orange Tree Theatre in 2014.

From critically-acclaimed New Art Club comes Hercules, a new family friendly take on one of the classic tales of Greek mythology which comes to Contact in Manchester next Thursday.

You're Never Too Old at Lancaster Grand on Monday night is a bittersweet two-hander which warmly explores relationships, loneliness and humanity in life's later years.

From the producers of Ockham's Razor, a show that stunned audiences at Lancaster Castle during Light Up Lancaster last year, comes Strike! a debut production by Keziah Serreau. Her new production merges circus and theatre and is at the Nuffield Theatre of Lancaster University next Thursday and Friday.

Just in time for Hallowe’en, The Dukes in Lancaster brings you Dracula... but not as you know it. With a mixture of illusions and trickery, an original musical score and a libretto from acclaimed poet Ian McMillan, this new production of Nosferatu can be experienced on Tuesday.

An Olivier nominated playwright teams up with theatre company Tutti Frutti for a new production of the Snow Child at Lancaster University’s Nuffield Theatre on Tuesday (hear writer Emma Reeves on the BTG podcast).

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