NW productions

Published: 29 November 2015
Reporter: David Upton

Phoenix Dance Theatre at Lancaster University
The Snow Queen at Z-arts
Inkheart at HOME Manchester

Phoenix Dance Theatre crosses the Pennines to Lancaster University next week premièring two new dance works by female choreographers Sharon Watson and Caroline Finn alongside a double bill by Christopher Bruce CBE.

You can climb a mountain of comedy at The Dukes in Lancaster next Wednesday. Andy Kirkpatrick, storyteller and comedian, makes a return with his new show Cold Mountain.

Manchester Royal Exchange Theatre associate artistic director Matthew Xia makes his main-stage debut this Christmas with his exploration of Stephen Sondheim’s Tony Award-winning fairy-tale Into The Woods.

Manchester’s Z-arts venue stages Hans Christian Andersen’s Snow Queen for the Xbox generation.

HOME, Manchester’s newest cultural hub, presents its first ever Christmas production for all the family: an adaptation of Cornelia Funke’s worldwide best-selling novel Inkheart.

Coronation Street's favourite doctor, Oliver Mellor, takes the title role in Peter Pan from Shone Productions at Middleton Arena from 2 to 27 December, also featuring Leah Murphy as Wendy and Peter Alexander as Captain Hook.

On 4 December, a comic book leaps into life at Lancaster Arts at Lancaster University with Panic Lab’s latest show R.I.O.T., in which four performers playing at superheroes are caught in a series of conflicts which are both personal and intricately political.

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