Onstage with Natalie Anglesey

                    Best-selling children’s book The Boy at the Back of the Class comes to Salford in world premiere stage adaption   The Lowry, Salford Tuesday 26 th  to Saturday 30 th  March 2024   The world premiere stage adaptation of the multi award-winning and best-selling children’s book  The Boy at the Back of the Class ,  based on the novel by Onjali Q. Raúf ,  adapted by Nick Ahad  and  directed by Monique Touko, comes to The Lowry in March.   The Boy at the Back of the Class is a timely, humorous and heart-warming story about the power of kindness, engaging children and their families in discussions around refugee rights.   A Rose Theatre and Children’s Theatre Partnership Production, The Boy at the Back of the Class comes to The Lowry, Salford from  Tuesday 26 th  to Saturday 30 th  March. There used to be an empty chair at the back of the class, but now a new boy called Ahmet is sitting in it. He’s nine years old (just like me), but he’s very strange. He never talks and ne

                  The Lowry to present the world theatre premiere of The Elmer Adventure. Tall Stories celebrates David McKee’s classic character in their latest theatrical extravaganza   October Half Term 2024     The Lowry, Salford 22nd – 26th October   Elmer is not elephant colour, Elmer is patchwork   Celebrating Elmer’s 35th anniversary,  Tall Stories  ( The Gruffalo’s Child, Room on the Broom ) will bring this amazing patchwork elephant to life in an exciting world premiere of their latest theatrical extravaganza with songs, storytelling and puppetry. This October the enchanting colourful world of Elmer will head to  The Lowry  in Salford from  22nd – 26th October , before heading to London as part of the Southbank Centre’s London Literature Festival.   Steve Cowton, Head of Theatre Operations at The Lowry says,  Tall Stories have been bringing shows to The Lowry for the past 20 years and we always look forward to their visits. They are brilliant and making stories come alive on

 Hop to Tatton Park this Easter for lots of chocolatey fun ! There is so much happening at Tatton Park this Easter with chocolate trails in the Gardens, Mansion and at the Farm (29 March - 1 April). With a ewe-nique Shaun the Sheep arts trail through the Gardens together with Shaun’s Easter championsheep games, Little Grey Fergie the Tractor at the Farm and an Easter Bunny trail in the Mansion, families will be spoilt for choice. Retail therapy is also on the agenda with a four-day Easter Pop Up Market in the bustling Stableyard where you will discover artisan food producers, local artwork, and beautiful homeware. Find the flock! Visitors to Tatton Park will be able to follow an exciting arts trail of 12 super-sized Shaun the Sheep sculptures, each of which will be uniquely designed and painted by a group of artists from across the region. The trail is the result of a collaboration with BAFTA® award-winning production studio, Aardman, and global art producer, Wild in Art, which sees on

  Twelve Angry Men The Lowry, Salford Review by Natalie Anglesey   Following previous record-breaking West End seasons, and a critically acclaimed tour in 2023, Bill Kenwright Ltd’s powerful production of  Twelve Angry Men  is at  The Lowry  this week until   2 nd  March 2024. Ever since the powerful fifties film starring Henry Fonda, which was nominated three times for Academy Awards, and since then, several stage productions over the years, this splendid court-room drama has never failed to impress me. Now there’s the chance for you to see Reginald Rose’s knife-edge courtroom drama at The Lowry all this week. The cast is now headed by  Jason Merrells  ( Casualty, Emmerdale )  taking over the role of Juror 8 from Patrick Duffy for the 2024 tour. He subtly holds  the whole production together. The cast also includes   Tristan Gemmill  ( Coronation Street, Casualty ),   Michael Greco  (EastEnders,   The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.) BenNealon  ( Soldier,Soldierand  Doctors)

  View this email in your browser World Book Day is Thursday 7th March this year and we have two of our favourite children's authors/illustrators visiting the shop that week. Reserve a spot now or simply drop by on the day! Children can spend their £1 World Book Day vouchers and at the same time if you have any Simply Books Gift Vouchers we'd encourage you to come and spend them too! BOOK SIGNING WITH ALEX T SMITH 5,4,3,2,1...  are you ready for lift off with author illustrator Alex T. Smith and his brand new series  Astrid and the Space Cadets ? Perfect for 5 - 8 years to read themselves or be read to and written in Alex’s own inimitable style!  Astrid Atomic is a 6 year old, who goes to bed every night just like every other 6 year old. But unlike other 6 year olds she doesn't stay there. The minute the lights are off and the coast is clear the Space Cadet siren goes off, her uniform goes on, and 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 - WHOOSH she blasts off on board the spaceship STARDUST! With h

               MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS The Lowry, Salford  6 th  to 14 th  September 2024   The UK & Ireland Tour of  MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS  will open at  The Lowry  this Autumn.   Following a sell-out tour of the best-selling crime novel of all time,  And Then There Were None , Agatha Christie Ltd, Fiery Angel and Lucy Bailey (director of the West End hit  Witness for the Prosecution ) will bring Ken Ludwig’s adaptation of another Agatha Christie classic to the stage this year.    Murder on the Orient Express will run at The Lowry from  Friday 6 th  to Saturday 14 th  September 2024.   Winter 1934 and an avalanche stops the Orient Express dead in its tracks.  An American tycoon lies dead in his compartment, stabbed eight times, his door locked from the inside. Trapped in the snow with a killer still on board, can the world’s most famous detective, Hercule Poirot, crack the case before the train reaches its final destination?   MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS  is one of Ag

  From the writers of the internationally successful Grumpy Old Women, award winning comedian Jenny Eclair and producer and writer Judith Holder deliver Older & Wider: Live, a live edition of podcast. The live show will be an interactive extravaganza featuring games, sit down audience participation, hypochondriac’s bingo, and a Q&A with the audience. Join Jenny and Judith as they overshare, gossip and chat about their 60 something lives at The Lowry 3rd March

    ACCLAIMED HILLSBOROUGH DRAMA RETURNS TO LIVERPOOL   97+ puts survivors’ stories centre stage in a compelling new full-length production being premiered at the city’s Olympia ______________________________ ______________________________ _______________   A powerful play which explores the ongoing impact of Hillsborough on those who survived the disaster is returning to Liverpool this spring in a new full-length production.   97+  is   written and directed by  Tom Cain  and co-produced by  Tom Cain Theatre  and  Bill Elms Productions , in collaboration with the  Hillsborough Survivors Support Alliance .   The theatrical drama, which in a shorter version previously won acclaim at Liverpool Theatre Festival and the Edinburgh Fringe, is being premiered at the  Liverpool Olympia  for one night only on  Friday 12 April , just ahead of the 35 th  anniversary of the football disaster which claimed the lives of 97 Liverpool fans.   Set in 2012, Hillsborough survivors John and Steve – now mid