Cilla Black collected L S Lowry artworks during her life, and now the musical inspired by her life and career comes to the stage of the arts centre that bears his name. Running at The Lowry in Salford from next Tuesday to Saturday, Cilla The Musical follows the life of the ordinary teenage girl from Liverpool and her rise to fame.
On Monday, acrobat-musicians from celebrated French contemporary circus company Circa Tsuica arrive on The Lowry Plaza in Salford to set up for their latest show Now or Never. When the tent opens next Thursday, audiences are invited in for a fusion of acrobatics and brass rhythms, where acrobats, musicians and audiences all play their part.
Staged at a secret location in Manchester, and running from Thursday to Sunday, OH MAN addresses the concept of maleness at a time when many key male figures in the public eye are often the subject of negative headlines.
An inaugural Arrival festival, showcases contemporary performance work created, produced and performed by students on the MA Contemporary Performance Practice at the University of Salford from next Thursday to Saturday.
Whales, comedy, award-winning theatre and a free-to-view music programme has kicked off in Carlisle at the 3rd edition of Carlisle Fringe Festival which runs until September 2.
Wicked, the Broadway and West End musical, will cast a spell over Manchester this Bank Holiday weekend with a special performance as part of Manchester Pride celebrations. Nikki Bentley will take to the Thomas Cook Airlines Stage on Monday evening for a gravity defying performance, ahead of the return of Wicked to the Palace in December. Kinky Boots Angels George Grayson and Joshua Lovell from Kinky Boots will also be adding glitter and glam to this weekend’s Parade as they appear on the Ticketmaster float.