Archive for August, 2007

PHILHARMONIC NEWS

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‘FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE’

Thursday 8th November

Tickets  -  £17  (includes transport)

                                            

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‘MUSIC FROM THE MOVIES’

Friday 23rd November 2007

Tickets  £17 (Includes transport

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VIENNESE MASTERS

THURSDAY 6th DECEMBER 2007

Tickets £17  (Includes transport)

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‘SHALL WE DANCE?’

10th JANUARY 2008

Tickets   £17   (Includes Transport)

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DR. DOLITTLE – Tommy Steele

image65091.jpgEMPIRE THEATRE 

Bill Kenwright presents this smash hit musical 

THURSDAY 6TH DECEMBER 2007

Matinee Performance – Tickets £13  (no transport)

THE WELSH NATIONAL OPERA

PRESENT -  CINDERELLA

EMPIRE THEATRE

FRIDAY 19th OCTOBER 2007    -  Tickets  £24

This is a new production of Rosini’s Cinderella

THE EVERYMAN THEATRE

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ALADDIN   -   The rock ‘n’ roll panto

Saturday Matinee – 29th December 2007

Tickets £15  (No transport on this occasion)

Come to the wildest party in town,

Pop your platforms on and stomp on down,

Join in the world of the sweet and the sour,

Don’t forget your brolley cause there’s bound to be a shower.

Woks will be rocked and springs will be rolled,

As we serve up the greatest tale ever told.

THE PLAYHOUSE THEATRE

‘THE FLINT STREET NATIVITY’ 

 Monday 3rd December 2007

Tickets £15 (Transport included)

Written by Tim Firth, last year’s The Flint Street Nativity broke box office records. For those who missed it, this family comedy is for any child who’s ever been in a nativity… or any adult who’s watched one through their fingers, or who has used a tea towel to wrap around a Shepherd’s head.

“There are moments when you might wet yourself laughing “- Guardian

“A stroke of genius – The Independent

THEATRE GROUP – STOP PRESS!

We must close the lists for the following productions by Tuesday 28th August 2007.  Please ensure you have booked your ticket if you intend going to one of these shows. View the Theatre Group News Section for more details.

EMPIRE THEATRE 

Good Mourning Mrs. Brown’

‘The Rat Pack’

‘King Cotton’

‘The Snow Queen ‘

‘A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM” by William Shakespeare

mndweb1.jpgTHE LOWRY THEATRE – Wednesday 31st October 2007Tickets £23 (Includes Transport)

Tim Supple’s much anticipated and highly acclaimed Indian production combines the astonishing skills of actors, dancers, martial arts experts, musicians and street acrobats from across India and Sri-Lanka. Two years in the making, the show, commissioned, and originally presented, by the British Council, caused a sensation when first shown in India and Sri-Lanka. Now, after sell-out runs at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon and in London, audiences at The Lowry can experience this breathtaking production prior to a World Tour.

“This most magical Dream will be remembered for decades” – The Daily Telegraph

“It’s Shakespeare brilliantly reimagined: theatre to lose your heart to” – The TimesMore….

‘WHIPPING IT UP’ – Starring Richard Wilson

000mm31.jpgTHE LOWRY THEATRE   -   22nd November 2007

Tickets £20  (includes transport)

Westminster runs the country, but the Whips run Westminster!

Steve Thompson’s scandalously funny satire, which blows the lid off the Despatch Box and reveals the true secrets locked in the Whips’ safe comes to the Lowry direct from The West End.

The new Tory government is facing dissent over its latest Bill.  With a majority of only three, the Whips’ office is out in full force and they’ll stop at nothing to keep the stray in line.  But they are in for a long night – with sexual blackmail, boy scouts rioting in Whitehall, the PM golfing with the President and five Tory rebels on the loose – could this be the beginning of a leadership challenge?

“Yes Minister with a twist” – Financial Times

“The sharpest new comedy of the year” – The Daily Telegraph

“A satirical hit. A comic bull’s eye” – Evening Standard

‘AN IDEAL HUSBAND’ by Oscar Wilde

THE ROYAL EXCHANGE MANCHESTER

12th December 2007 £20 PER TICKET (Includes transport)

 A blend of comedy and morality, sex and politics, exploring human frailty and social hypocrisy.  Using Oscar Wilde’s signature wit and style an AN IDEAL HUSBAND has all the sumptuous elegance you expect from The Royal Exchange. ‘Nowadays, with our modern mania for morality, everyone has to pose as a paragon of purity, incorruptibility, and all the other seven deadly virtues.