Cawkwell to talk well of Icelandic saga
Katy Cawkwell has been storytelling for 20 years across Britain and beyond, and as part of Lancaster Arts City’s First Fridays she is set to visit the county next month.
View ArticleA clucking good show for half term
Mother hens have no need to worry about entertaining their chicks this half term as The Dukes has a treat in store.
View ArticleThe Country comes to the city in new space
Martin Crimp’s ‘The Country’ will be staged at The Dukes Theatre in Lancaster this week.
View ArticleYou’ll Hall be Maid up with Robin
There is lots of fun to be enjoyed in this lovely, traditional pantomime that will thrill people of all ages.
View ArticleNew comedy night for Preston city centre
After narrowly missing out on the top spot of a national competition, local comedian Lewis Whiteside has plans to brighten up Preston’s night life with a new style of stand-up comedy night.
View ArticlePaddy sans Max on the road to Preston
One of Britain’s best-loved comics Paddy McGuinness is on his way to Preston Guild Hall for 2015.
View ArticleThis One Man Circus among First in the city
First Friday, Lancaster’s monthly mini-festival of the arts, returns next week with internationally acclaimed interactive artists Blast Theory presenting a version of a piece first seen at the...
View ArticleBig hand for breathtaking show
When a performance makes you forget to draw breath, you know you have just witnessed something quite spectacular.
View ArticleReduced tickets sale
The heartbreak, humour, passion and desperation of teenagers caught up in the First World War combines with song in a new show at The Dukes in Lancaster on Monday night.
View Article‘They use a knife and fork to eat a pie. That’s all I need to know...’
Looking for Valentine’s ideas? Comedian Jo Caulfield might have the answer, and it involves a night out in Chorley, as MALCOLM WYATT found out...
View ArticleSlightly self-conscious Nobody
This is theatre on a shoestring – several of them in fact, strung across the traverse stage.
View ArticleGhostly dream team make teen scream
Classic GhostsGrand Theatre, BlackpoolUntil Saturday
View ArticleFocus on Society’s season finale
The final play of St Mary’s of Penwortham Amateur Dramatic Society’s 2014-15 season will be ‘Out of Focus’, a rip-roaring comedy by Peter Gordon, being directed by Craig Wilkinson.
View ArticlePlayers’ first class Last Tango
In their 69th season, The Club Players of Broughton celebrated their 200th production with an evening of One Act plays.
View ArticleThe Muddy reality of war in the Round
The heartbreak, humour, passion and desperation of teenagers caught up in the hell of the First World War combines with song in a new show at The Dukes in Lancaster tonight.
View ArticleA Picture of these wild Wilde women
LipService return to Blackpool’s Grand Theatre next Friday and Saturday with their comic take on Oscar Wilde’s classic novel about an ageing socialite, The Picture of Dorian – or should that be Doreen...
View ArticleThe art of Hockney
Twice as much fun with two very different comedians at Preston Guild Hall over the weekend. Omid Djalili, “the thinking person’s Iranian comedian” comes to the city on Saturday night as part of his...
View ArticleHeading off with a Journey in mind
Lancaster’s Dukes Theatre will later this month stage a show that really gets inside your head.
View ArticleNice Cirque if you can get in
Britain’s top contemporary thrill circus is embarking on a nationwide tour which swings through the North West for three nights only.
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