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1. 1. Re:Play Festival 2010: Highlights

   CityLife, Friday 18 December 2009 THE Library Theatre Company’s Re:Play Festival has revealed details of their annual celebration of the best plays seen in smaller venues in Manchester and Salford over the previous year. They’ve just announced the line-up for their third festival, running from January 26 to February 6, 2010.

2. 2. MEN Theatre Awards 2009: Winners announced

   CityLife, Wednesday 09 December 2009 AFTER the thrills, spills, tears and tiaras of yesterday’s glittering awards ceremony, Theatre Awards judges Kevin Bourke, Natalie Anglesey, Robert Beale, Corinne Hill, Alan Hulme, Philip Radcliffe, Diana Stenson, and David Upton take you behind the scenes for their lowdown on the winners and the other nominees.

3. 3. MEN Theatre Awards nearly here

   CityLife, Friday 04 December 2009 DECEMBER 8, 2009 sees one of the highlights of the theatre-going year - the Manchester Evening News Theatre Awards. Throughout the past 12 months, the dedicated awards panel of judges have been to see literally hundreds of shows, ranging from massive arena events to one-person shows in the back room of a pub.

4. 4. 24:7 theatre festival is up and running already

   CityLife, Wednesday 02 December 2009 THEY seem to like to keep everyone on their toes at 24:7, so they’ve shaken things up a little for 2010’s festival. Key changes relate to the selection procedure and the performances in 2010’s festival week, which will run from Monday July 26 until Sunday August 1.

5. 5. RSC returns with a play of Significance

   CityLife, Friday 20 November 2009 ROY Williams’s lauded and blisteringly topical play Days Of Significance heralds the first return of The Royal Shakespeare Company to The Lowry on November 24 since its acclaimed Romeo and Juliet in 2008.

6. 6. Ten out of 10 for new Lowry season

   CityLife, Friday 13 November 2009 THE Lowry is celebrating a decade of curtain ups. Kevin Bourke outlines its new programme, which includes Matthew Bourne's all-male Swan Lake, Calendar Girls, The Woman In Black, Serenading Louie.

7. 7. What's in store at The Royal Exchange?

   CityLife, Friday 13 November 2009 THE Royal Exchange’s productions for spring and summer next year include a new stage adaptation of George Orwell’s classic novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four; Shakespeare’s furiously funny The Comedy Of Errors; and George Bernard Shaw’s much-loved Pygmalion.

8. 8. MEN Theatre Awards: Nominations announced

   CityLife, Friday 30 October 2009 THE nominations for this year’s awards range from blockbuster musicals to the best of local talent. Is your favourite production shortlisted? Find out here...

9. 9. Dorian Gray compelling and dark

   CityLife, Thursday 22 October 2009 MORE than a century after Oscar Wilde wrote his then scandalous The Picture of Dorian Gray, Matthew Bourne has taken its shocking core and reworked it into a damning tale of our times in what the Lowry calls ‘a dance theatre event’.

10. 10. Interview: Matthew Bourne

    CityLife, Thursday 22 October 2009 WITH his brilliant dance version of The Picture Of Dorian Gray, at the Lowry this week, Matthew Bourne is delving into material that is a little darker and more controversial than previous productions, such as his MEN Theatre Award-winning Edward Scissorhands and The Car Man.

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