NW Productions

Published: 28 October 2018
Reporter: David Upton

Charles Lawson as Inspector John Rebus at the Opera House Credit: Robert Day

In a blend of languages, including fully integrated BSL, three performers tell a story from three perspectives in Summit at Lancaster University’s Nuffield Theatre on Tuesday evening.

Marking 40 years since its UK cinema release, the stage show version of Saturday Night Fever comes to Blackpool Opera House from Tuesday to Saturday.

John Stahl and Cathy Tyson join Charles Lawson in Rebus: Long Shadows, a new Rebus story written exclusively for the stage by author of the original novels, Ian Rankin, and playwright Rona Munro at Manchester Opera House (hear our interviews with Lawson, Stahl and Rankin about this production in the BTG podcast).

Calendar Girls The Musical, based on the true story, the film and the award-winning play by Tim Firth, returns home to The Lowry from Tuesday to Saturday.

The Hofesh Shechter Company presents SHOW, a "wild and mischievous performance in three acts", at HOME in Manchester from Wednesday to Saturday.

The musical revue Putting it Together celebrates and showcases the songs of Stephen Sondheim and runs to November 24 at Manchester’s intimate Hope Mill Theatre.

The Political History of Smack and Crack, at Mustard Tree in Ancoats, Manchester from next Thursday to November 15, is fresh from runs at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and at London’s Soho Theatre.

The Glasshouse has its Northern première at 53Two in Manchester from Thursday to Armistice Day, November 11.

The UK première of psychological thriller The Other Place is at Keswick’s Theatre by the lake from Thursday to November 10.

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