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The three creatives chosen for Nottingham Playhouse’s Christmas show for younger children, Hansel and Gretel, are all from the East Midlands and fought off competition from more than 100 submissions in an open call-out. Beth Shouler, a Duffield Fellow 2022 on the Clore Leadership Programme, will direct. She said, “I’m chuffed to bits to be directing… Continue reading Christmas creatives chosen for Nottingham Playhouse show

Multi award-winning theatremaker RashDash is curating the tenth feminist festival, Calm Down, Dear, at Camden People’s Theatre. The festival runs from 31 May to 17 June and includes Sluts with Consoles and work-in-progress Stable, which look at women in the gaming industry and horse dealing respectively, and a character comedy on fat bodies from Posey Mehta, Babycakes. Other shows consider modern sex work… Continue reading A decade of Calm Down, Dear

Without Walls, a consortium of 30+ festivals and arts organisations, is inviting submissions of new outdoor work from artists and companies, for touring next year. Projects are particularly welcomed from or led by global majority artists, Deaf, disabled and neurodiverse artists and LGBTIQA+ artists. The artistic directorate responsible for artistic programming will assess ideas from… Continue reading Without Walls open for submissions

La Bamba!—a new dance musical featuring a soundtrack of Latin pop anthems, and starring Pasha Kovalev (Strictly Come Dancing) and Siva Kaneswaran (The Wanted)—will be at The Lowry in Salford this summer from August 17–19. The show will then head to London’s Peacock Theatre, Sadler’s Wells West End theatre, for a limited season on August… Continue reading La Bamba! gets into Latin stride

The winners of The Lowry’s first annual Creative Writing Challenge were presented by Manchester-based actor, writer and director Carla Henry, with performances by poet Tony Walsh. The 16 shortlisted entries performed on the Quays stage at The Lowry, Salford. Open to children aged 7–11 (Key Stage 2) from across Salford and Greater Manchester, the judges… Continue reading Kids get creative at Lowry

HOME in Manchester launches a new Creativity Corner and hosts a series of space themed family–friendly events for May half term. Located on the ground floor, this new and free creative space invites visitors to make a self-celebration mask, create a story or have a portrait drawn by community artist and storyteller Phoebe Foxtrot. Acclaimed dance company… Continue reading Creativity Corner at HOME

A new dark comedy from Switch_MCR comes to Manchester’s 53two June 14–24. Have A Break, Have A KitKat follows a year in the life of two cousins manoeuvring grief for the first time. It’s hard to be a 20-something when the world is changing, your Nanna’s obsessed with the Queen and a lettuce is outliving the… Continue reading Have a Break with new dark comedy

//Tuning In//, a new co-production between Theatre by the Lake, Miles-Wildin and Ng and Graeae, comes to Keswick next month. It explores the destructive nature of disability prejudice, the damage caused by trying to fit in, and the risk involved in being who you are. All performances of the show have creative captioning and creative… Continue reading Tuning In to Lakeland

Warwickshire-based Heartbreak Productions is presenting three new plays as part of its 31st year of taking outdoor theatre experiences to audiences across the UK. The plays are Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen, MacHamLear by Michael Davies which pits Shakespearean tragedies against one another in a battle of the Bard, and David Walliams’s Bad Dad. Maddy Kerr, executive director of Heartbreak Productions,… Continue reading Three new outdoor shows for Heartbreak