A decade after premiering on the West End, Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory visits Palace Theatre Manchester as part of its first ever UK tour.

The Mancunion chats to Joanne Clifton ahead of the UK tour of Shrek the Musical. We discuss how it felt to land the role, coming from a family of performers and the realities of working in the theatre industry.

The Mancunion sits down with Ewan Gillies, ahead of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory visiting Manchester for the first time ever

Find out what musicals are coming to Manchester this July!

Strictly Ballroom – a jukebox musical based on the Baz Luhrmann film of the same name and starring Kevin Clifton and Faye Brookes – is finally coming to The Lowry, after two covid-forced postponements

Disney 100: The Concert, hosted by Janette Manrara, is a touching tribute to an institution that has defined multiple generations

The Commitments, a jukebox musical based on the novel of the same name, is heading to Opera House Manchester – starring local legend Nigel Pivaro

The Bridge Theatre’s Guys & Dolls is an immersive, in-the-round, roaring revival of a Broadway classic

Once on This Island is an interesting and intelligent racial reimagining of The Little Mermaid – with gorgeous costumes and majestic lighting but a disappointing set (or lack thereof)

Daniel Fish’s radical reimagining of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! is ambitious, intelligent, and (intentionally) unenjoyable

Musical theatre icon Samantha Barks performed a superb solo concert at Theatre Royal Drury Lane – where she usually plays Elsa in Frozen

Carrie Hope Fletcher, the biggest West End star right now, dropped by The Lowry as part of her first ever UK tour

Dirty Dancing is a timeless classic revived

Dirty Dancing returns to the Palace Theatre as part of its UK tour, after a smash-hit residency in the West End

Find out what musicals are coming to Manchester this June!

Samantha Barks will perform a solo concert at Theatre Royal Drury Lane – where she stars in the cast of Frozen

The Way Old Friends Do, a play about the first ABBA tribute band in drag, visits The Lowry as part of its UK tour

Carrie Hope Fletcher is ‘pulled’ back to The Lowry as part of her first ever UK tour, An Open Book

Greatest Days, which is based on the music of Take That and stars Kym Marsh, is perhaps the greatest jukebox musical out there

The SpongeBob Musical, starring Tom Read Wilson, Divina de Campo, and Hannah Lowther, is better than anyone could possibly predict!