Archive for the ‘Manchester Theatre’ Category
The Palace Theatre – Sept 2009
WHATS ON AT THE PALACE THEATRE IN SEPTEMBER?
For telephone bookings call, 0844 847 2277
Oxford Street, Manchester
Highlights for this month include:
23 – 27 Sep – Giselle – English National Ballet
Love and betrayal, innocence and the supernatural. Giselle is the ultimate Romantic ballet. This traditional staging of the 1841 production moves from bright, sunny optimism to a ghostly world of mystery.
The Opera House – Sept 2009
For telephone booking call, 0844 847 2277
Quay St, manchester
Highlights for this month include:
18 Sep – I’m Sorry I Haven’t Got A Clue
The official stage tour with Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Jeremy Hardy. Jack Dee is the special guest host for the evening.
22 – 27 Sep – Lord of The Dance
Michael Flatley, creator and director of this award-winning international dance phenomenon, proved his vision that hearts and minds, united through music and dance, cross all traditional boundaries.
The Royal Exchange Theatre – 1 September – 3 October 2009
For telephone booking call, 0161 833 9833.
St Ann’s Square, Manchester
1 September – 3 October 2009 – Lifecycle – Art from Recycled Media Exhibition
It’s been estimated that around 2,5000 tonnes of unwanted CDs are being thrown away every year – a substantial portion of the waste being sent to landfill. This exhibition, created by Lee Middlehurst, uses waste CDs and DVDs to create these beautiful works of art, each shard being individually hand-crafted to produce very particular piece of artwork.
2 September – 3 October 2009 – The Miser
Someone’s going to get married tonight, but as the children fight to follow their hearts’ desires whatever the cost, Harpagon plots to stop his credit being crunched and nothing and nobody is quite as it seems in Moliere’s riotous and rapid-fire comedy.
The Library Theatre – 23 Sep – 3 Oct 2009
St Peter’s Square, Manchester
23 Sep – 3 Oct – Desperate to be Doris
LipService return to their spiritual home with a hilarious new musical featuring the greatest hits of the incomparable Doris Day. By day, Dean (Darren Southworth, fresh from the West End production of Spamalot) works for a mail order nightwear firm called The Pyjama Game.
The Lowery Theatre – Sept 2009
THE LOWRY THEATRE
For telephone bookings call, 0870 787 5780
The Quays
Highlights for this month include:
15 – 19 Sep – The Walworth Farce
Hilarious, horrifying and ferociously entertaining – an achingly tender insight into what happens when we become stuck in the stories we tell ourselves about our lives.
21 – 22 Sep – Eighteen Stupid Reasons Why I Love You Lots And Lots
A new romantic comedy exploring love, loss, and how to explain the physics of time travel to someone who really couldn’t care less.
28 Sep – 3 Oct 2009 – Entertaining Angels
Penelope Keith stars at The Lowry for the first time in this sharply comic show about a clergy widow who finds her new-found freedom suddenly threatened.