Steven Houghton is currently starring in UK Productions tour of Seven Brides For Seven Brothers. He also starred in Spend, Spend, Spend, Annie Get Your Gun, Blood Brothers and Grease, as well as hit TV shows such as Doctors, London’s Burning and Holby City.

He currently stars alongside Grease Is The Word winner Susan McFadden, fresh from her West End starring role as Sandy in the hit musical. Steven stars as Adam Pontipee, the role originally created by Howard Keel in the Oscar winning musical.

Set in Oregon in 1850, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers is the irresistibly upbeat story of mountain lumberjack Adam Pontipee, the eldest of seven brothers, who goes to town to get a wife. He convinces local girl Milly to marry him that very same day. They return to his back-woods home and only then does she discover he has six strapping brothers. Hence the title of the show! (more…)

Following its successful visit with The Comedy of Errors last year, the Royal Shakespeare Company returns to Salford from 11 – 15 November with Shakespeare’s epic tale of thwarted love, Romeo and Juliet.

David Dawson, who comes from Widnes and trained at RADA, will now perform alongside Anneika Rose. Both actors are making their RSC debut in the title roles of Romeo & Juliet.

Anneika Rose, who trained at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, now joins David and the company in rehearsals. Laura Rees, who was scheduled to play the part of Juliet has regrettably, had to withdraw from the show due to illness.

David Dawson recently played Smike in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (Gielgud Theatre, London; Chichester and international tour), for which he received a Laurence Olivier Award nomination for Best Newcomer in a Play.  Other theatre credits include The Entertainer and Richard II (Old Vic). TV appearances include The Thick Of It and Essex Girls (BBC), Doc Martin and Up Close and Personal (ITV). (more…)

This competiton is now closed and the winners are:

Sarah Foran, Debra MacDonald, Irene MacDonald, Thomas Ward and Sarah McCarthy.

For The Love Of Mrs Brown is the continuing story of the matriarchal mammy and her brood from the pen of Brendan O’Carroll.

THE PRIZE:
The hit Mrs Brown series of comedy plays have played to packed audiences in Manchester for years now. Now the monster with a heart of gold is back! If you fancy laughing like a drain at this the fourth part of the series, we have FIVE, yes FIVE pairs of tickets to give away!

These tickets are up for grabs for WOS Manchester visitors on Tues 4th Nov, 2008 (7.30pm) at the Opera House. All you have to do to win, is answer the question below.

THE PITCH:
For The Love Of Mrs Brown- If you are a fan of Brendan O’Carroll’s comic creation, this show is for you. Following on from the Mrs Brown trilogy, this is the welcome surprise that is part four with the same great humour and laughter a plenty. For one week only, you can see this hilarious show that will have your sides splitting! Having discovered the internet, Agnes Brown accidentally sets up a date with a man she knows only as HairyHarry25. (more…)

Productions by Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre scooped a hat-trick of prestigious Theatrical Management Association Theatre Awards at a special ceremony held in London at the weekend.

Brenda Blethyn’s much-acclaimed performance as Amanda Wingfield in Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie took the award in the ‘Best Performance’ category; Kate O’Flynn won ‘Best Supporting Performance’ for her role Mary Tilford in The Children’s Hour and Mick Hughes took the ‘Best Lighting Design’ gong for his work on the same production.

The Theatrical Management Association (TMA) is the UK’s major business association for organisations and companies including theatres and arts venues, involved professionally in the production and presentation of performing arts. Since 1991 the annual TMA awards have celebrated the creative excellence and outstanding work seen in UK theatres each year. (more…)

Congratulations Geoff Dagger!You have won two tickets.

We are offering you one pair of tickets for the opening night of Martin McDonagh’s The Cripple Of Inishmann at the Lowry.

THE SHOW:
The story of an unlikely film star comes to The Lowry in November with The Cripple of Inishmaan, a dark comedy written by award-winning Martin McDonagh.

It’s 1934 and news on the island of Inishmaan is thin on the ground. Then word arrives that they’re making a Hollywood film on neighbouring Inishmore and Cripple Billy, for once, is paying attention. To everyone’s surprise he gets a part in the film.

Inishmaan is the second play in McDonagh’s Aran Island’s trilogy and is infused with his trademark humour, rich with macabre cruelty. (more…)