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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

Following a four-week run at The Lowry, the National Theatre’s production of The Ocean at the End of the Lane returns to Salford this October. Based on the novel by Neil Gaiman, adapted by Joel Horwood and directed by Katy Rudd, this adventure of fantasy, myth and friendship is currently on tour visiting 29 towns… Continue reading The Ocean returns to Salford

New musical champion Katy Lipson is to hold an open pitching day in London to hear new musical work. The show to be presented can be at any stage of development but must include at least one new song. Aria Entertainment producer Lipson and the company’s literary manager Tom Ramsay will attend the presentations. New… Continue reading Open pitch event for new musicals

A new 250-seat covered, open air theatre is being opened for summer season shows in Banstead, Surrey. To be called The Lavender Theatre, the venue will host musicals and plays against a farmland setting, and the site offers a coffee bar, a full service glasshouse restaurant and picnic spaces. The opening production is to be Irving… Continue reading New Surrey summer season venue goes great guns

Magician Magical Bones brings his show Soulful Magic to Lancaster Grand Theatre March 24, Lytham’s Lowther Pavilion March 26 and The Lowry in Salford April 5. Following a successful run at Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the breakdancing magician and finalist of Britain’s Got Talent is on a national tour with his unique, high-energy magic show. Bones intertwines illusions with stories, music,… Continue reading Three dates for Magical Bones

Simon Beaufoy’s play The Full Monty bares nearly all at Winter Gardens Blackpool from December 5–9 as part of the UK tour celebrating the 25th anniversary of the film. Casting to be announced soon. It remains very much of our time, amidst a cost-of-living crisis. Gaz and his mates are down on their luck and… Continue reading Full Monty for Blackpool

Cake, a new musical-cum-gig-come-ballet, comes via an Olivier Award winning creative team including Olivier Winners Drew McOnie (In the Heights, Jesus Christ Superstar) and Morgan Lloyd Malcolm (Emilia at Shakespeare’s Globe). It will play The Lowry March 28 to April 1. Fresh from her run as Mary Poppins on the West End, Zizi Strallen stars… Continue reading Cake on menu at Lowry

Park Theatre and Hope Mill Theatre in Manchester present a brand-new play Animal, exploring how disability, sexuality and lust coexist for people who require round-the-clock assistance. Written by Jon Bradfield and developed by disability activist and equality trainer Josh Hepple, it looks at hook-up culture, navigating relationships and how they intersect with practical needs and… Continue reading Animal unleashed in three cities

The Lyric Theatre, Belfast is to revive its hit punk-rock musical Good Vibrations at Belfast’s Grand Opera House in May. Based on the BAFTA-nominated 2013 film scripted by Colin Carberry and Glenn Patterson, Good Vibrations tells the story of the punk pioneer whose record store provided a safe, sectarian-free haven in late-1970s’ Troubles-torn Belfast. Hooley’s ‘Good Vibrations’ shop was… Continue reading Teenage Kicks and Good Vibrations at Belfast’s Grand Opera House

Northern Ireland Opera has announced Puccini’s Tosca, which will be directed by the company’s Artistic Director Cameron Menzies, as its next major production at the Grand Opera House, Belfast in September. First staged in Rome in 1900, the opera is set during Napoleon’s invasion of Italy in 1799 and is a torrid tale taking place… Continue reading A “shabby little shocker” is next up for Northern Ireland Opera