NW Productions

Published: 28 September 2014
Reporter: David Upton

Ian Ashpitel as Ernie Wise and Jonty Stephens as Eric Morecambe in Eric and Little Ern Credit: Geraint Lewis
Amsterdam at Contact Theatre
1984 at the Grand in Blackpool

Following two acclaimed runs at Edinburgh, two national tours and a West End season, the Olivier-nominated homage to the double act Morecambe and Wise, Eric and Little Ern, is on tour around the region with four dates.

A critically acclaimed new play, Lotty's War, a passionate wartime thriller, comes to the Opera House in Manchester next Thursday to Saturday.

Acclaimed actor, writer and comedian Michael Palin will be appearing at the Opera House, Manchester on Monday night as part of his first-ever solo theatre tour.

A dark new play Crocodiles by Lee Mattinson gets its world première at Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre from next Wednesday to October 18.

Award-winning theatre actor and director Wyllie Longmore will direct an adaptation of Shakespeare’s work by acclaimed playwright Conor McKee at several venues around the region from next week.

As part of Black History Month, Afrique Performs brings a modern play of love and lust, Amsterdam, to Manchester’s Contact Theatre next week.

Stella Productions present the cautionary tale of a Madchester rock ‘n’ roll lifestyle in The Rise and Fall of a Northern Star at The Met in Bury next Wednesday.

Lancaster’s First Friday initiative relaunches next Friday, with a mini-festival of the arts bringing six events over the course of the day.

The producer of a new version of Around the World in 80 Days, Harriet Mackie, coming to The Dukes in Lancaster next Thursday is travelling back to her home town.

A critically-acclaimed adaptation of George Orwell’s dystopian masterpiece, 1984 is at Blackpool’s Grand Theatre.

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