NW productions

Published: 3 April 2016
Reporter: David Upton

Patrick Knowles as Jimmy Porter in Look Back in Anger at the Octagon Credit: Robert Day

ZooNation is at HOME in Manchester from Wednesday to Saturday with its highly acclaimed hip-hop musical Into the Hoods: Remixed.

Preston is treated to a 10-day long programme of “immersive and international theatre Performance” Derelict Spring starting next Thursday.

Local schoolchildren join members of Poulton Amateur Dramatic Society on stage with a professional cast from the Royal Shakespeare Company when A Midsummer Night’s Dream: A Play for the Nation comes to Blackpool Grand.

Michael Buffong and Don Warrington bring an epic new version of King Lear to Manchester Royal Exchange.

Bad Jews, the best-selling play in the history of London’s St James Theatre’s, comes to The Lowry in Salford from Tuesday to Saturday.

The season of playlets that always promises six new world premières returns to the Joshua Brooks pub in Manchester for the 15th JB Shorts.

Spanish & Latin American Festival ¡Viva! returns to HOME in Manchester from Thursday with an ambitious 18-day celebration of Spanish and Latin American culture.

A new production of award-winning musical American Idiot—featuring the music of Green Day—comes to the Palace in Manchester, following a run at London's Arts Theatre.

Octagon Theatre Bolton present a 60th anniversary production of Look Back in Anger, John Osborne’s ground-breaking classic, which changed the face of British theatre in the mid-1950s by presenting the voice of the Angry Young Man.

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