A stage show charting the careers and relationship between Hollywood mother and daughter Judy Garland and Liza Minnelli is on a UK tour to Lancaster, Bolton, Lowestoft, Oldham, Barnstaple, Sale, Ulverston, Ilkley, Cheltenham, Milford Haven and Cardiff. It’s created and written by West End performer Emma Dears who appears as Liza Minnelli, with Francis Goodhand… Continue reading Judy & Liza on tour
Month: February 2023
This Town in Manchester
This Town is a modern-day epic narrative poem, performed and written by Rory Aaron (BBC New Creatives, Southbank Poetry Collective). An ode to home, it uses spoken word to transport audiences to a post-industrialised landscape. Against the backdrop of a cost of living crisis and a looming recession, it looks at young people’s experience of… Continue reading This Town in Manchester
Faye joins Ballroom cast
Dancing on Ice finalist and Coronation Street star Faye Brookes joins the cast of Baz Luhrmann’s Strictly Ballroom The Musical as part of a 10-month tour which comes to The Lowry, Salford June 26 to July 1. The musical, based on film of the same name, is directed by Craig Revel Horwood, who co-choreographs with Strictly’s creative director Jason Gilkison. Faye… Continue reading Faye joins Ballroom cast
Cat’s back at Royal Exchange
Tennessee Williams’s Cat On A Hot Tin Roof gets a brand-new production at Manchester Royal Exchange March 24– April 29. Bayo Gbadamosi takes on the role of Brick, with Ntombizodwa Ndlovu, a Zimbabwean-British actress, singer and graduate from the Manchester School of Theatre, as Maggie ‘the cat’ joined by Patrick Robinson as Big Daddy and Jacqui Dubois… Continue reading Cat’s back at Royal Exchange
The Beekeeper of Aleppo
Ten years after the première of The Kite Runner, one of Nottingham Playhouse’s most successful productions, the theatre looks destined to repeat that success with its latest offering, The Beekeeper of Aleppo. The Kite Runner, Matthew Spangler’s adaptation of Khaled Hosseini’s novel, played to more than 20,000 people in Nottingham. It toured the UK, had… Continue reading The Beekeeper of Aleppo
Richard II
GSC has noticed some rather alarming parallels between the court of Richard II and our present Government and they have based this latest production on the political aspects of our leaders, then and now. Richard II came to the throne as a very young man and proceeded to use his power, and the taxpayers’ money,… Continue reading Richard II
Dance Me – Music by Leonard Cohen
A compilation of Leonard Cohen’s iconic songs, poems, musings and a dance homage to the man who died 7 November 2016, but before he died, he approved the songs chosen for this tender dance memorial to an intriguing personality. He never got to see the finished product. Ballets Jazz Montréal from Cohen’s home town are… Continue reading Dance Me – Music by Leonard Cohen
Dance Me – Music by Leonard Cohen
A compilation of Leonard Cohen’s iconic songs, poems, musings and a dance homage to the man who died 7 November 2016, but before he died, he approved the songs chosen for this tender dance memorial to an intriguing personality. He never got to see the finished product. Ballets Jazz Montréal from Cohen’s home town are… Continue reading Dance Me – Music by Leonard Cohen
The Lehman Trilogy
Stefano Massini’s epic saga of the Jewish immigrants who gave their name to the bank that spectacularly failed in 2008 was first performed in the UK in 2018 with Simon Russell Beale, Ben Miles and Adam Godley playing multiple generations of Lehmans with extraordinary dexterity. The new cast—Michael Balogun (Emanuel Lehman), Hadley Fraser (Mayer Lehman)… Continue reading The Lehman Trilogy
A funny thing happened on the way to the theatre…
Stories help us make sense of the world, cope with trauma, cheer us up in difficult times and even give us an extra push to do something different with our lives. The nine pieces of new writing taking place over two separate evenings in Chickenshed’s two-week season of storytelling explore the way people mobilise stories… Continue reading A funny thing happened on the way to the theatre…