• Farnworth Little Theatre,
• Flare Path,
• Bedroom Farce,
• Spiders Web,
• The Turn of the Screw,
• Separate Tables,
• Lady Windermere’s Fan,

Farnsworth Little Theatre announced its fistful of fruits last night to a crowd of enthusiasts. For the last 67 years this place has entertained it regulars, won awards for everything from Lighting, Sound, Stage Design and Comedy at the Bolton Amateur Theatre Society, as well as maintaining a reputation for a high standard on the stage. So what are they offering us for the year 2106/17? A Farce, two Mysteries, one crime, the other ghostly, one moving portrait of post war society and a satire.

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• Shakespeare,
• Romeo and Juliet,
• Macbeth,
• The Tempest,
• Much Ado About Nothing,

ST GEORGE’S HALL LIVERPOOL TO HOST SHAKESPEARE SEASON  

Concert Room Will Provide Stunning Backdrop To Four Bard Classics

Walk The Bard Promenade Tours Also Announced

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• Epstein Theatre,
• Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,
• LHK Productions,
• Lewis Pryor,
• Michael Chapman,
• Ricky Tomlinson,
• Georgia Austen,

Today for the first time I visited the Epstein Theatre and cannot understand how I have never been before. This wonderful historic little theatre is soon to be visited by a beautiful young lady, a handsome Prince, a wicked Queen, seven dwarfs, a ‘pretty’ dame (pretty maybe stretching it) and a hapless lad………….mix them all up and what do you get? ..Yes, Ricky Tomlinson!! Oh no you don’t …oh yes you do….oh no you…ok ok I’ll stop!

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• Murder She Writes,
• Vertigo Theatre Productions,
• King's Arms, Salford,
• Craig Hepworth,
• Stuart Reeve,
• Paul Worrall,
• Dale Vicker,
• Richard Allen,

Award winning, critically acclaimed and THREE time MTA nominated Vertigo Theatre Productions are back with a crazy new comedy, Murder She Writes!

The company behind the critically acclaimed sell out plays Ascension, Porno Chic, Last Dance, Watching Goldfish Suffocate, M, Mysterious Skin and many others are letting their hair down and bringing you a comedy so insane, so demented, so over the top that it should be illegal.

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• Crissy Rock,
• St George’s Hall,
• Ricky Tomlinson,
• Stan Boardman,
• John Gorman,
• Billy Butler,
• Lesley Butler,
• Saul Murphy,

Liverpool’s St George’s Hall are proud to announce a unique evening of entertainment in their historic Civil Courtrooms, where ticket holders become the jury on a personal Civil Court Case between two of Merseyside’s top comedians, Civil Court Case No. 45 The Trial of Tomlinson Versus Boardman. The event will take place over three nights from Sunday 13^th to Tuesday 15^th March and tickets are now on sale.

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• Opera House, Blackpool,
• Dirty Dancing,
• Karl Sydow,
• Eleanor Bernstein,
• Paul Michael Jones,
• Carlie Milner,

Today I had the pleasure to visit the beautiful Opera House within Blackpool’s famous Winter Gardens to hear the great news direct from one of the producers Mr Karl Sydow that the stage version of the iconic film ‘Dirty Dancing’ will be returning this year with a brand new production. The tour will ‘kick’ off on August 11^th - 30^th in Blackpool on the first ‘leg’ of the tour, (please pardon the puns!) This popular seaside town seemingly the perfect place to start with its reputation for high class entertainment. The cast is to be announced shortly.

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• Riverdance,
• Bill Whelan,
• Moya Doherty,
• John McColgan,

Live Nation is proud to announce that the Riverdance UK Tour of 2016, which marks the show’s 21^st birthday, will visit 13 venues across the UK from March 2016 (see over for full dates). Tickets will go on general sale at 0900 on Friday 2 October 2015 from www.livenation.co.uk or www.ticketmaster.co.uk. The cast for this tour will feature, for the first time, some dancers who were actually born in the same year that the show first opened; 1995 at the Point Theatre in Dublin! This is an unmissable chance for UK audiences to reconnect with what the Irish Times rightly described as “The Original...The Best”. The Washington Post exclaimed, “Its continued popularity proves that it was, and remains, a phenomenon of historic proportions!”

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• Unity Theatre,
• Art Council,
• Matthew Linley,

North West End was invited to a press launch at the Unity Theatre this morning, and party poppers, balloons, cake, tea and biscuits, greeted us. I had a look around and saw some floor plans which was all very exciting, what they were going to announce?

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• How To Be Happy With The Speakmans,
• The Speakmans,
• Nik Speakman,
• Eva Speakman,

JOIN TV'S FAVOURITE THERAPISTS LIVE ON STAGE FOR A NIGHT OF PRACTICAL STEPS TO POSITIVE THINKING THIS SPRING!

The world’s leading and inspirational life-changing therapists Nik & Eva Speakman are set to embark on a five-night theatre tour, challenging our mind-sets and bringing a plethora of positivity in their unique and heartening style LIVE on stage this Spring.

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• X-RAYS,
• NODA,
• Awards,
• Burnley Light Opera Society,
• Pendle Hippodrome Youth Theatre,
• Clitheroe Parish Church Amateur Operatic and Dramatic Society,

Performers and avid supporters of amateur theatre in East Lancashire gathered at Dunkenhalgh Hotel in Accrington to celebrate the talents of local societies, affiliated to NODA (National Amateur and Dramatic Association), with their annual awards night.

Theatre groups present at the NODA North West region's awards covered areas of Blackburn, Burnley, Clitheroe, Houghton, Hyndburn, Pendle, Rossendale within Districts 3 and 12.

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