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Step Out: 5-Day Dance Bootcamp Empowers Adults to Move with Confidence in Middleton

29Jul

By NewsdeskNo Comments

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Step Out: 5-Day Dance Bootcamp Empowers Adults to Move with Confidence in Middleton

Step Out is a 5-day adult dance bootcamp in Middleton designed for anyone who’s ever thought: “It’s too late for me to start dancing.” Led by local dance tutor and professional performer, JJ Welles, this intensive is open to complete beginners, returning dancers, and anyone who wants to reconnect with movement in a space that’s empowering, welcoming, and professionally led. Whether you’ve never set foot in a dance class or you’re a performer looking to sharpen your skills, Step Out is about pushing past doubt, building confidence, and discovering what your body can do. Across five evenings, participants will improve confidence, fitness, and develop new skills as a dance troupe. Each day they’ll learn a new style: Musical Theatre, Jazz, Commerical and Lyrical, culminating in a ...

29Jul

By Harry AltyNo Comments

North West

Nuns of Fury! – Seven Oaks Pub

What happens when you combine the criminal-catching of Charlie’s Angels with beloved women of the cloth of Sister Act? Rocket Whip’s Nuns of Fury offers a unique look into the world of a crime-fighting, habit wearing, God-backed group who are on a mission to steal from the rich and give to the poor. This comedic musical, presented with blessings and favour from up above, is a great addition to this year’s Greater Manchester Fringe line-up. This show’s holy word comes from writer and co-director Liv Burton. Throughout the one-act musical, the plot falls into common tropes expected from a crime genre parody; a rag-tag-team of crime fighters, a cocky duo of criminals and over-exaggerated kung-fu fighting. Where this show differs and excels is when it breaks the fourth wall with a wink ...

29Jul

By Ben PearsonNo Comments

London

People – Etcetera Theatre

Anna Manuelli’s People explores existential questions about the nature, purpose and meaning of life through an intriguing device; the use of doppelgängers. Manuelli plays four characters from different timelines, far removed from one another, who nonetheless share the same face. She uses this premise to demonstrate that the answers a person seeks, and indeed the questions they ask, can vary hugely depending on their context. Is it retribution and revenge that gives life meaning? Is it power? Is it happiness? The design of People is minimal, with limited use of lighting, sound and blocking. Thus, the show relies on Manuelli’s performance to keep the audience engaged. Luckily, her turn as the four characters is inspired, embodying each individual with unique physicality’s and expressi...

Maiden Voyage – Southwark Playhouse Elephant

29Jul

By Kira DanielsNo Comments

London

Maiden Voyage – Southwark Playhouse Elephant

Maiden Voyage, a new musical with book and lyrics by Mindi Dickstein and music by Carmel Dean, tells the story of the 1989-1990 Round the World Whitbread Race Maiden crew, an all-female sailing team that broke barriers in competitive sailing and made history in the worldwide race. The scope of this story is pretty narrow despite the globality of its setting, and the writers choose to focus almost exclusively on Tracy (Chelsea Halfpenny), the crew’s young skipper and navigator. Tracy builds the team up from her personal and professional circle into a solid chorus for her sea ballads. Halfpenny is an able performer and is well supported by the surrounding cast, but she is not particularly well served by the story itself, which doesn’t go very far in exploring its characters’ emotional dep...

Summer Sizzles at Lucem House Cinema Plus+ with Penguins, Pixar, and Powerful Drama

28Jul

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Summer Sizzles at Lucem House Cinema Plus+ with Penguins, Pixar, and Powerful Drama

It’s hotting up for Lucem House Community Cinema Plus+ in St Helens as another busy month awaits with their Monday Matinee and Family Film Club looking perfect to pique children’s interest now that schools are out for the summer. The Penguin Lessons (12A, 2024) Friday 1st August Doors open at 19.00 Screening at 19.30 Admission £6 At the height of the 1976 coup in Argentina, a disillusioned English boarding school teacher unofficially adopts a stray penguin which becomes the school pet and transforms his life. Based on the memoir of the same name, this comic drama from the director of The Full Monty is a guaranteed crowd-pleaser. Starring Steve Coogan and Jonathan Pryce. Monday Matinée The Wizard of Oz (U, 1939) Monday 4th August Doors open at 13.00 Screenin...

28Jul

By Hannah KellyNo Comments

North West

Flat 4 – The King’s Arms

Influenced by her own experiences and trauma, Isobel Songer’s ‘Flat 4’ is a powerful one-woman show that forms part of the Greater Manchester Fringe 2025 at the King’s Arms Theatre. Impressively, Songer has both written the play and performs the roles of all characters and monologues within the story. Through its entirety, ‘Flat 4’ demandsthe audience’s undivided attention. The performance is essentially about the complexities of female friendships, introducing ‘Alex’ and ‘Becks’ and their flat share at university. Songer guides the audience through Alex’s downwards spiral as she deals with abuse, anorexia and her subsequent depression. The combination of spoken word poetry alongside theatre is an interesting approach to the story. Integrating frequent poetic monologues ...

26Jul

By Angela KellyNo Comments

North West

The Invocation – The King’s Arms

In one of the most suited theatres for such a performance, the King's Arms welcomes "The Invocation", a bizarre twilight zone-esque evening by Casino Improv, an Improv troupe from Wigan as part of Greater Manchester Fringe.As the audience settled into their seats, the cast, clad in black clothing and red capes, began engaging with the audience in a ceremonial fashion as they asked for "requests" that could be improvised into a horror story. The requests chosen were randomly selected via an iPad and then the stories began!The evening then essentially became the presentation of a bunch of improvised horror stories in a hilarious "off the cuff" style by the comedy quintet. Eerie music and various sounds to accompany stories were used throughout. There is no denying the talent on stage and the...

Extraordinary Women – Jermyn Street Theatre

26Jul

By Carole GordonNo Comments

London

Extraordinary Women – Jermyn Street Theatre

In post-First World War Italy, a multi-national group of women are enjoying a bohemian lifestyle on the fictional island of Sirene off the coast of Naples, with new-found freedoms and relationships. The island's calm is maintained by a group of four sirens who watch over the island and its inhabitants. It's an idyllic set-up, until the arrival of the penniless Rosalba upends the island's serenity. Flirting with everyone, manipulating relationships, and enjoying creating chaos and mayhem, she causes distress and jealousy to her lover Aurora, who has sunk her money into buying a villa as their intended home. Friendships and relationships are formed and shattered as Rosalba romps through the group like a human Vesuvius, egotistically declaring how extraordinary she is. Every...

The Daughter of Time – Charing Cross Theatre

26Jul

By Paul AckroydNo Comments

London

The Daughter of Time – Charing Cross Theatre

It must be the ultimate cold case: the investigation of the reputation of Richard the Third and his involvement in the disappearance of the Princes in the Tower. This is the task which Inspector Alan Grant sets himself when he is laid up in bed convalescing from an injury in M Kilburg Reedy's new play, based on the renowned book by Josephine Tey. The setting is Grant’s rather spacious hospital room, where nurses are encouraging their reluctant patient to undertake the necessary exercises to ensure his full recovery. His interest in King Richard is stimulated by a portrait provided to him by a friend. Using his police skills and assistance from a number of friends and acquaintances, he obtains as many contemporary accounts as he can to try and uncover the truth behind the life of Ric...

26Jul

By Lou SteggalsNo Comments

North West

Robo Bingo 2.0 – The King’s Arms

‘IT Consultants’ Lloyd Henning and Peter Sutton, better known as Foxdog Studios, have, in true IT style ‘turned it off and on again’ on one of their popular shows, Robo Bingo, rebooted as 2.0 with new wi-fi, new games and a whole lot of new coding headaches to keep both our dynamic duo and audience on their virtual toes. Mixing Flight of the Conchords musical jamming with the social awkwardness of The IT Crowd, Foxdog invite the audience to play along not only in games of bingo but also classic childhood games of Snap, Guess Who and Spot the Difference albeit constantly interrupted with a variety of pop-ups and other technological interludes. Henning and Sutton are a charming and witty duo, with quips and quick thinking as they navigate the chaos, bringing gales of laughte...