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The Lowry’s tenth anniversary celebrations steps up a gear this summer with a programme of eclectic events including musicals, hard-hitting drama and family shows.
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Although Matthew Bourne and New Adventures’ all-male Swan Lake may still be perceived as radical, even jokey, in some areas, there’s a revealing fact to be found in the promotional material.
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When Come Out & Play Festival first turned New York into a giant playground of zombie tag and vigilante cycle path building back in 2006, the world looked on in total confusion.
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Hailed as an instant classic on its publication in 1949, George Orwell’s 1984 is now seen by many as one of the definitive novels of the 20th century.
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Chekhov, agrees rising star Romola Garai, sometimes has a reputation for being a bit stuffy and, frankly, unsexy.
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Morecambe and Wise may be much-loved household names here – but in Chicago? Nonetheless, the duo play a big part in the new show from Chicago-based collaborative performance duo Cupola Bobber, along with Gilbert And George; and Laurel And Hardy.
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In 2009, as it celebrated its 25th anniversary, Cirque Du Soleil, which brings its spectacular Varekai show to the city on February 25, totted up the number of people who’d been to one of their shows. Give or take a few, it came to 90m people!
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Listening to Clive Mantle talking passionately about Jus’ Like That! A Night Out With Tommy Cooper you get the distinct impression that, for Clive at least, this is more than just a hilarious evening featuring all Tommy Cooper’s best gags and magic tricks.
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This is an important season for the Library Theatre Company – their last in their current home – so it’s only fitting that it should open with a rarely-performed comedy by American Neil Simon, a playwright whose work has long been associated with the Library.
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The MEN Theatre Award-winning Greenroom, on Whitworth Street ‘doesn’t like to take itself too seriously’. “We are a theatre, but not in the traditional sense,” they say. “Every inch of the building gets used – bar, corridors, kitchen, lift, toilets, as well as the theatre.
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Conor McKee’s Burnt, premiering next week at Contact, where it will be directed by Manchester Evening News Theatre Award-wining actor and director Wylie Longmore, has taken almost exactly a year to reach this stage, as the Manchester-based, Northern Ireland-born playwright explains.
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FOLLOWING its two sell-out weeks at The Lowry – and an MEN Theatre Award nomination for one of its stars, Lynda Bellingham – both Lynda and the record-breaking show Calendar Girls return to the Salford venue on February 9, 2010.
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THE Royal Exchange brings its current season to a close with a major revival of iconic American drama A Raisin In The Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, running until February 20, 2010.
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MOTIONHOUSE have been producing groundbreaking dance theatre spectaculars since 1988 and their 18th full-length production, Scattered, coming to The Lowry next week, is one of their most ambitious yet.
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THE terrible loss of life in Haiti following the recent devastating earthquake has touched people all over the world. Contact Theatre is getting actively involved, with Uprising - a night of theatre, spoken word and music with all proceeds going to the Haiti Disaster Relief Fund.
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Peter Harris wrote: 1 week 4 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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