You may have barely escaped the grasp of High School Musical in 2006, but Disney’s straight-to-TV movie is back with a vengeance, celebrating 20 years of catchy pop bops and bringing its infectious, nostalgia kick to the Lowry audience.

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold scratches far beneath the surface to recall the dark realities of the Cold War whilst delivering its modern reframe to the Lowry audience. As agent Alec Leamas is dragged into a British Intelligence (MI6) operation alongside compromised officers and cover-ups that he must unmask.

Northern Ballet are aiming to make the Lowry audience blush with the titillating reimagining of Anne Lister’s 1820-30 diary entries. Recapturing Anne’s enlightening thoughts, desires and fantasies by streamlining her five-million-word diaries into a time-jumping ballet that spotlights the most explosive moments of her adventurous life.

Aslan is back at the Lowry for a musical revival of C.S. Lewis’s beloved classic. Tapping into a wardrobe full of wonder, this stunning adaptation transforms the 1950s story with ingenious staging and stunning puppetry that keep the childlike wonder alive. While the Pevensie children, Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy are evading the Blitz in a Professor’s old countryside manor, Lucy (Kudzai Mangombe) discovers a snowy new realm through a wardrobe. Within its land are desperate c