Find out what shows are heading to Manchester’s main theatres over the holiday season
This Christmas, Hope Mill Theatre is staging The Wiz – a musical adaptation of L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz – a decade after it was last performed in the UK
Zorro the Musical, which is inspired by the Isabel Allende novel and has music by the Gipsy Kings, opens at Hope Mill Theatre next month, starring Blue’s Antony Costa
Claudia Langley reviews As British as a Watermelon at Hope Mill Theatre
Anna Jin reviews Lady of Jazz at Hope Mill Theatre
Alexia Pieretti reviews the first production of Mame in half a century, starring 2 x Olivier winner Tracie Bennett
Kayleigh Crawford reviews RAGS, reimagined by Stephen Schwartz and David Thompson, a story of immigration, identity and hope
The play was inclusive for all, featuring sign language for deaf actors and audience members
A tonally confused musical lifted by some fantastic performances and moments of pathos and humour
TURN ON FEST returns with in person events, following the 2020 launch and the online festival in 2021
There has been many a notable mother-daughter duo. Jada and Willow. Kris and Kim. Goldie and Kate. Few, however, are as notable and incredible as Judy and Liza. Heck, they’re both so legendary, people often forget that they’re mother and daughter. At 75, Liza Minnelli (Cabaret) is older than her mother, Judy Garland (The Wizard […]
Anna Jin reviews Hope Mill Theatre’s Welcome to Shangri-La, written by BAFTA Break-through Gemma Langford
Kayleigh Crawford reviews The Astonishing Times of Timothy Cratchit, a musical sequel to Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol
Anna Jin interviews Michaela Bennison ahead of her starring in the one-woman show Lady of Jazz
Anuli Changa reviews Elysium Theatre Company’s Miss Julie on its run at the Hope Mill Theatre
Sam McElhattan reviews Mydidae the Northern premiere of a play written by BAFTA-winning playwright Jack Thorne and presented by Wonderhouse Theatre.
Rob Tomlinson reviews a production that blends tragedy and comedy by mother and child friendly company Abooo Theatre
Hair the Musical at Hope Mill theatre certainly leaves the audience on a high
