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Belfast's EastSide Arts Festival announces its 2019 programme

Theatre and circus steal the limelight in Belfast’s EastSide Arts Festival.

ENB's Swan Lake in-the-round returns to Royal Albert Hall

English National Ballet will return to the Royal Albert Hall next summer (17-28 June 2020) with Derek Deane’s production of Swan Lake in-the-round.

Yvonne Arnaud Youth Theatre performs in community

Members of the Yvonne Arnaud Youth Theatre's production group performed at the Pilgrim Wood Residential and Dementia Care Home.

Billy Zane narrates film of WWI avante-garde theatre piece

Hollywood superstar Billy Zane will narrate a 50-minute arthouse production of Vernon Lee and Maxwell Armfield's The Ballet of Nations: A Present-Day Morality from 1915.

Wind In The Willows on tour

Stolen Thread CIC's open-air rendition of The Wind in the Willows is on tour from July 23.

Mum's first play—performed by daughter

Best Girl is a new one-woman play written for this year’s GMFringe.

Diva delights for Manchester fringe

Anita Giovannini brings her show Anita Luna The Diva to Greater Manchester Fringe.

Once upon a Lowry time

Broadway and West End musical Once comes to The Lowry next year.

String-driven Washing Machine takes a spin

SLAM Theatre's How to Use a Washing Machine is on tour for the summer.

Jackie Kay memoir for Manchester

The National Theatre of Scotland and HOME in Manchester present the soul-searching memoir Red Dust Road by Jackie Kay.

Karen O'Neill takes on Dukes director role

Karen O’Neill will become director at the Dukes Theatre in Lancaster.

Two versions of story for Studio Creole

Irish film and theatre actor Lisa Dwan stars in Studio Créole for the Manchester International Festival, a performance piece that reinvents the language lab.

Getting creative about the Future

HOME in Manchester has launched Future 20, its second year-long artist residency and training programme for emerging artists aged 18–25.

Teenage take on Cinderella

PROM! The Musical is at Oldham Coliseum, July 24–27.

Chase or choose at GM Fringe

Men Chase Women Choose is at Hope Mill Theatre, Manchester as part of Greater Manchester Fringe Festival.

Opera star hits comic note

Canadian opera singer and comedian, Delea Shand, brings her first solo show to Manchester Fringe.

£1m gift for Exchange Den

A gift of £1m to Manchester Royal Exchange Theatre enables the development of a new pop-up theatre space.

NW Productions

Round-up of regional productions opening week beginning Sunday June 23.

Adding to Mame cast

Harriet Thorpe and Tim Flavin will star in the first professional UK revival of Mame, joining Tracie Bennett in the title role.

Raising the bar for Manchester fringe

Barred reopens at Antwerp Mansion for the Greater Manchester Fringe.