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Review: The Time Machine

Review: The Time Machine

The Time Machine is a fun, frivolous and unfaithful adaptation of H. G. Wells’ sci-fi novella
Octagon is visited by three ghosts

Octagon is visited by three ghosts

Octagon gets into the (spooky) Christmas spirit with a brand-new stage adaptation of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol
Review: The Book Thief

Review: The Book Thief

Theatre Editor Jay Darcy reviews the world premiere of The Book Thief (a brand-new musical based on Markus Zusak’s best-selling novel) at Bolton Octagon
There’s been a theft at Bolton Octagon

There’s been a theft at Bolton Octagon

The Book Thief, a brand-new musical based on Markus Zusak’s best-selling novel, is having its world premiere at Bolton Octagon – and its writer, Jodi Picoult, recognises the task of adapting such an acclaimed story to the stage

Review: INSIDE

On the 9th of February, Elise Gallagher visited the Bolton Octagon to see the acclaimed psychological thriller INSIDE, presented by Strawberry Blonde Curls Theatre Company

Review: The Glass Menagerie

Hannah Lawrence heads to the Bolton Octagon to review David Thacker’s ‘The Glass Menagerie’

Must See: 22nd – 28th April

The best in local theatre this week

Must See: 8th – 14th April

The best of local theatre this week

Must See: 1st – 8th April

Sticking around in Manchester this Easter? Here’s our guide to what’s on over the next week for those of you looking to take a welcome break from John Rylands

Preview – Whole

Ben Marshall previews the Bolton Octagon’s upcoming youth production ‘Whole’ and speaks to Julia Samuels, co-artistic director of 20 Stories High

Must See: 25th February – 4th March

What’s on this week in local theatre

More mouse than man

Joshua Val Martin reviews an adaptation of John Steinbeck’s ‘Of Mice and Men’ at the Bolton Octagon

Must See This Week In Theatre: 26th November-3rd December

The best of theatre for the week ahead.

Our Country’s Alright

Josephine Lane reviews Our Country’s Good at the Bolton Octagon.

Fix me another drink

Review: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at Bolton Octagon