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3 days ago | 
theatrereviewsnorth.com | Alan Hulme
Four years in the making, Yorkshire-based dance-theatre company Northern Rascals combines theatre, contemporary dance and spoken word to explore the young modern male experience in Sunny Side. The show can be seen at Leeds Playhouse (June 12-13), and Dance City, Newcastle upon Tyne. on June 18. Touring in partnership with Andy’s Man Club - a men’s suicide-prevention charity - the show raises awareness of the mental health crisis affecting young people.
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3 days ago | 
theatrereviewsnorth.com | Alan Hulme
Salford's Lowry has launched a new international contemporary season of theatre, dance, circus and more starting this autumn and featuring award-winning shows and new works including three Lowry co-commissions.
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4 days ago | 
theatrereviewsnorth.com | Alan Hulme
Hull Truck Theatre has launched the Mike Bradwell New Work Fund to honour the theatre’s pioneering founder, who died in April. The fund will invest in the next generation of plays and writers, in particular local talent. Mike Bradwell founded Hull Truck Theatre in 1971, when he and a group of fellow actors toured out of the back of a truck, performing a form of theatre that put real stories centre-stage and staging “great plays with enough jokes”.
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6 days ago | 
theatrereviewsnorth.com | Alan Hulme
Chester Storyhouse arts centre's management has made a major step forward in the building's energy sustainability by installing an extensive rooftop solar panel array. The panels will expand the theatre’s solar energy capacity and offer significant cost savings.
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1 week ago | 
theatrereviewsnorth.com | Alan Hulme
Lancaster-based innovative theatre company imitating the dog will test their technological skills to the limit with their live action version of H G Wells' War Of The Worlds. War Of The Worlds will tour next year to Cast, Doncaster (February 5-7); The Dukes, Lancaster (February 18-21); the Lowry, Salford (February 25-28); Liverpool Playhouse (March 4-7); Theatr Clwyd, Mold (April 15-18) and Blackpool Grand (April 15-18), as well as a couple of dates in Switzerland.
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1 week ago | 
theatrereviewsnorth.com | Alan Hulme
Audiences can expect a line-up that includes two moths, some post-apocalyptic cockroaches, a blade of grass, the dust in Quentin Crisp’s room, a lamenting songbird, a human tyrant and a lesbian seagull when Lowry associate artists Thick & Tight return to the Salford venue (June 10-11) with their latest dance-theatre production, Natural Behaviour. Thick & Tight blends dance, satire, impersonation and poetry to create work intended to be outrageous, beautiful, hilarious and profound.
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1 week ago | 
theatrereviewsnorth.com | Alan Hulme
With a cast of 70-plus dancers, musicians and singers, the world premiere of Balkan Erotic Epic, from internationally renowned performance artist Marina Abramovic, is the latest blockbuster production for Manchester's vast Aviva Studios (October 9-19). Following the world premiere in Manchester, Factory International will tour Balkan Erotic Epic, starting in Barcelona in January.
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2 weeks ago | 
theatrereviewsnorth.com | Alan Hulme
A new production of comedy horror musical Little Shop Of Horrors will open at Manchester's Hope Mill Theatre well over a year away, in the autumn of 2026. The show will be the latest from the producing partnership of Hope Mill and Thomas Hopkins Productions, following their success with Rose, starring Maureen Lipman (which opened at Hope Mill prior to a sold-out West End run in 2023), and their recent award-winning comedy Glorious!, due to embark on a full UK tour next year.
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2 weeks ago | 
theatrereviewsnorth.com | Alan Hulme
Scarborough's Stephen Joseph Theatre turns 70 this summer and will celebrate in style with a gala afternoon on July 13, featuring stars who have worked there over the years. The gala will be hosted by EastEnders actress Laura Doddington, who performed at the SJT regularly between 2004 and 2012.
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2 weeks ago | 
theatrereviewsnorth.com | Alan Hulme
Reliving the heady summer of 1995, when Britpop heavyweights Blur and Oasis went head-to-head in a great headline-grabbing chart contest, The Battle arrives on UK tour next year at Manchester Opera House (March 17-21, 2026), followed by northern visits to Sheffield Lyceum (May 5-9); York Grand Opera House (June 9-13); Newcastle Theatre Royal (July 7-11) and Chester Storyhouse (July 28-August 1).
