Lynn Nottage’s hard-hitting, Pulitzer Prize-winning play dives into the forgotten lives of factory workers in a poor town in Pennsylvania. Despite spotlighting America’s plights and premiering in 2015, the show's universal themes of friendship, loyalty and the harsh realities of being working class allow audiences to reshape the tale with Manchester’s industrial worker bees in mind.   

Diversity’s 2024 Supernova show bursts onto the Lowry Lyric stage with a tsunami of energy, sweeping the audience in their wake. Despite its story being a departure from the expected Diversity offering, Supernova holds the heart of an Ashley Banjo project, layering relentless performances within a show about living life to its fullest.  

This live-actioned reimagining of The Little Mermaid from Ursula’s perspective is stuffed full of jokes, pop tracks and neat effects. But when it comes to the message, the disco diva is clear, what happened under the sea to the self-indulgent Arial, was not the whole story.  

Elena Dee carries Ellen Kent’s pressure filled production of Madama Butterfly with a charged performance that shoulders every scene of Puccini’s iconic 1904 opera.