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BOLTON'S Octagon Theatre welcomes in the New Year with one of Shakespeare’s best-loved comedies, A Midsummer Night’s Dream. This large-scale production, complete with live music, is set in the late Sixties and will be directed by the Octagon’s artistic director, David Thacker.
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FOLLOWING two sell out weeks at The Lowry, the record-breaking Calendar Girls returns to the north west in February 2010.
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CONNIE Fisher burst into the national consciousness as the winner of BBC1 talent show How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria? She tells Kevin Bourke about reprising her role - and finding love.
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ON a mission to prove that street dance really does know no limits, a dance collective are staging a hip-hop interpretation of the literary classic One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest.
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ROY Williams’s lauded and blisteringly topical play Days Of Significance heralds the first return of The Royal Shakespeare Company to The Lowry on November 24 since its acclaimed Romeo and Juliet in 2008.
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WORLD-renowned Welsh tenor Bryn Terfel talks to Natalie Anglesey about sheep, singing and soccer.
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THE actor talks to Kevin Bourke about his role in The Entertainer at the Royal Exchange - and how 50 years since the play was written, its message still resonates.
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ENTERTAINERS don't come much more 'all-round' than Aled Jones. Simon Donohue speaks to a star who is getting busier and busier.
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CELEBRATE the start of the festive season at Manchester's Palace Theatre with the smash hit London Palladium production of Scrooge (9 to 14 November), starring legendary entertainer Tommy Steele in the title role.
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KEVIN Bourke meets the man behind Billy Elliot, whose latest play, The Pitmen Painters, chronicles another working-class foray into high culture.
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WITH his brilliant dance version of The Picture Of Dorian Gray, at the Lowry this week, Matthew Bourne is delving into material that is a little darker and more controversial than previous productions, such as his MEN Theatre Award-winning Edward Scissorhands and The Car Man.
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IF you’ve never been to an opera before, or are already a fan, then Opera North’s superb autumn season has something for you with three witty, tragic and downright bonkers productions at The Lowry from November 10 to 14, with tickets from just £14.
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MANY of us will remember our first visit to a theatre fondly. For Paula Wilcox, now a veteran of stage and screen and approaching the status of national treasure, that experience happened here in Manchester, at the Library Theatre, a visit which inspired her to delve into the world of acting.
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THE Lowry’s new Salford-set play has had to overcome a number of setbacks before the opening night, as Aaron Lavery discovers.
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AFTER discovering that her baby suffered from a rare chromosome disorder and going through four years of incredibly difficult situations, young actress Kristina Brändén Whitaker decided to turn her experiences into her first ever play, Expectations, which receives its UK premiere at Contact Theatre on October 13.
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Peter Harris wrote: 2 weeks 6 days ago
This is NOT an all male ballet! So many journos get this wrong and it totally confuses the public! The Corps de Ballet (the swans in this case) are all male. The dancers in this production are magnificent and it is a serious piece of Ballet, very moving at times interspersed with clever humour. Everyone who makes the effort will be mesmerised, thrilled and moved by this wonderful evening at the Ballet.
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