Matthew Bourne is reintroducing audiences to Sleeping Beauty with a foray into the woods that reemerges as a layered modern gothic. Twisting the classic tale for his New Adventures production, but rooted in Tchaikovsky’s 1890 ballet, we dive into a surprisingly traditional retelling within a decadent Edwardian setting that places the story in the year the original ballet was released. When the childless King (Danny Reubens) and Queen (Kayla Collymore) are helped by the dark f

The Lowry audience should come prepared to lose themselves to a new love. La traviata may be the most performed opera to date, but Opera North’s passionate production ensures you will fall for the heartbreaking and tender tale all over again. Adapted from The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers writer, Alexandre Dumas’s original play Violeta. The Parisian setting and scandalous storyline of forbidden love and devastating sacrifice offer up a familiar Dumas staple.

It is easy to lose yourself in Alice Walker’s 1982 Pulitzer Prize winning novel as she masterfully injects colour, humour and connection into see Celie’s lifeless world. The Lowry Theatre’s towering, wooden cladded set is illuminated by Tinuke Craig’s direction, that smothers Celie in projected images, but also spotlights the farmhouse she grew up on, the farm her husband moved her onto and the barns that surround her. The rural and domestic landscape that Walker places her u

Playwright Conor McPherson’s sweet and honest journey through a guest house in Duluth follows a group of solo travellers sheltering from a storm. With the backing of Bob Dylan’s catalogue bringing warmth to the shadowy characters, Girl From The North explores community and hope in times of deepest hardship. Set in 1934 with a stage shrouded in darkness, the Lowry audience is introduced to a 19-strong cast. This beautiful production follows owner Nick Laine (Colin Connor), his