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Bolton Octagon is part of the Warm Spaces initiative, opening its doors to provide a safe space for anyone to use during the current energy and cost of living crisis. The Bolton venue has received funding as part of a nationwide initiative to provide this free drop-in service. Available every Tuesday and Thursday 11AM–2PM in… Continue reading Bolton’s warm welcome

Blackpool Grand Theatre celebrated Winnie the Pooh January 18 by lighting up the town with yellow and red colours. They even arranged for Blackpool Tower to light up in yellow and red to say Happy Birthday to the author A A Milne. Winnie the Pooh and friends will be bringing a new live adventure to… Continue reading Winnie lights up the town

The Queen’s Hall Arts Centre in Hexham has a new spring season, including a new production of Michael Morpurgo’s Little Manfred, February 10–11. Other theatre highlights include the return of Durham-based Elysium Theatre Company. A rich, boisterous piece of theatre set on Robben Island where Nelson Mandela was held, The Island has been seen all over the world.… Continue reading Hexham springs theatre season

Sheffield Theatres has announced the full cast for their new Playhouse production: Eve Leigh’s new play Wildfire Road, March 4–18. Honeymooners, middle managers and spontaneous singletons settle after take-off to Tokyo. But this flight is no holiday as the plane has been hijacked. Raj Bajaj (Tartuffe) will play the roles of Rohan, Kazuo; Siubhan Harrison (The… Continue reading Wildfire Road cast in place

A one-act play, The Podcast Wars, is a two-hander set in a world of illusion, at the White Hotel in Salford February 16. Two men filled with messy emotions but people can have different versions of the same thing.

The timing could hardly have been worse for Edinburgh City Council to produce an important vision for the future of the Scottish capital’s cultural landscape. Sara Pascoe brings her new show, Success Story, to Scotland. Pic: Rachel Sherlock How do you define success? Health and happiness, a corner office and company car or scoring Ben… Continue reading Sara Pascoe on her new show, Success Story, and the mother of all tours

Arts industry leaders have warned that a funding cut of more than 10 cent for Creative Scotland in the Scottish Budget will have a “devastating and potentially irreversible” impact on the country’s cultural sector. The Royal Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh. There are fears of a “hollowing out” of Scottish culture and the prospect of a… Continue reading Scottish arts organisations warn Creative Scotland budget cut will have ‘devastating’ impact

Northampton Royal and Derngate’s first production of 2023 will be Roy Williams’s adaptation of Michael Rosen’s children’s story Unexpected Twist, a retelling of Dickens’s Oliver Twist. It will be the last production directed by the venue’s artistic director James Dacre before he leaves after ten years in the role to set up his own production company. Unexpected Twist will… Continue reading Dacre bows out of Northampton with Unexpected Twist

The Royal Ballet and The Australian Ballet have announced that 61 companies will participate in the largest World Ballet Day yet, streaming from six continents. Audiences are invited to take part in the largest ever global dance challenge, and share a video of themselves performing a piece of choreography inspired by The Sleeping Beauty, as… Continue reading Largest ever World Ballet Day

The Forward Prizes for Poetry will be coming to Contact Manchester this November—the first time the ceremony has ventured outside London in its 30-year history. The prizes are the most influential awards for new poetry published in the UK and Ireland, and over the last three decades have lauded Simon Armitage, Thom Gunn, Seamus Heaney,… Continue reading Forward to Manchester