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Running times shown WEEK 53 where available THE 13 Cover Image: ‘Extraordinary Bodies - LOWRY. What Am Worth?’ (Fri 24 & Sat 25 April) WEEK 53 RETURNS! MAY The Lowry’s multi-art form festival is back across 10 17 Accessible jam-packed days from FRI 24 APRIL - SUN 3 MAY. Performances The biennial festival is our opportunity to fill the building with brilliant contemporary art and performance as we commission and present artists that we think are really JUNE Audio Described pushing the boundaries and creating exciting work. 24 Performance For people with a visual impairment. With a programme including exhibitions, installations, performances, interactive projects and live events, be sure British Sign Language to visit us and see The Lowry from a new perspective! Interpreted Performance JULY We look forward to seeing you soon. 32

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The Lowry Centre Trust is a not-for-profit charitable organisation and registered charity COMING UP Relaxed Performance (no. 1053962) Adapted for anyone who may 35 find the usual theatre Please recycle this brochure environment challenging. You’ll be free to leave and re-enter at any point. HEW COMEDY For more info visit p42 LOCKE 40 The Man Who Would Be King A FESTIVAL

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Celebrating feelings in all their messy, multifaceted glory, Everything I Know, I Felt is an exhibition exploring the emotional Sat 14 March - Sun 5 April experiences of womxn, curated by Girl Gang - a local collective of artists, activists, academics and party Gallery Opening Times starters who believe that feminism is for KEEP AN EYE OUT FOR THE MEMBERS’ everybody. 11am - 5pm 10am - 5pm SYMBOL FOR EXCLUSIVE OFFERS Sat Visit thelowry.com/exhibitions for more Sun - Fri information about events, from parties and Free | Donations Welcome panels, to debates and destruction, and a takeover by young womxn. 55 thelowry.com @The_Lowry 6 LS LOWRY THE ART & THE ARTIST

The Lowry is home to the world’s largest public collection of paintings and drawings by LS Lowry. HHHH A large selection is on EVENING STANDARD display in our permanent exhibition alongside other works on loan from private HHHH collections across the UK. ‘PRETTY MUCH IRRESISTIBLE.’ THE TELEGRAPH A PERMANENT DISPLAY HHHH Gallery Opening Times

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Sun - Fri Sat Message In A Bottle is the spectacular new Wed 1 - Sat 4 April Free | Donations Welcome dance-theatre show from triple Olivier Award nominee, Kate Prince (Some Like Lyric Theatre Free Talks on LS Lowry It Hip-Hop) to the iconic hits of 17-time Visit thelowry.com for times Grammy Award-winning artist Sting, including Roxanne, Every Breath You Take, 7.30pm 2pm Self Portrait, 1925 Going to Work, 1959 © The Lowry Collection, Salford © The Lowry Collection, Salford Fields of Gold, Englishman In New Thu 2 & Sat 4 and Shape of My Heart. Tickets from £23.50 With dazzling footwork and breathtaking Conc £3 off athleticism set to the music of Sting, Message In A Bottle tells a vital and uplifting story of humanity and hope. G S

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A Wardrobe Ensemble, Complicité and Royal & Derngate, Northampton co-production in association with Old Vic The Last Of The Pelican Lucinda Chua Fri 3 April Adapted by Matthew Spangler Originally produced by Daughters Based on the best-selling novel by Khaled Hosseini Cellist and vocalist Lucinda Directed by Giles Croft Tue 31 March - Chua flexes seamlessly between atmospheric chamber pop and DRAMA Thu 2 April introspective R&B. Having performed live with artists including FKA twigs Like Ayckbourn on acid, this ‘There is a way to be good again’ and GAIKA, on her solo debut, darkly comic family drama Tue 7 - Sat 11 April Antidotes 1, Chua steps out into her From ’s West End, The Kite Runner is follows four sisters (and their own otherworldly landscapes. an outstanding and unforgettable theatrical granny on day release) as they tour de force and its returning to The Lowry. Lyric Theatre come together to divide their mother’s house between them. ‘As if in conversation with Based on Khaled Hosseini’s international Joy wants a baby, Storm wants bestselling novel, this haunting tale of 7.30pm 2pm to be seen, Sage wants to be the instrument, she fills the friendship spans cultures and continents and paid and Maya doesn’t want space in between notes Wed 8 & Sat 11 follows one man’s journey to confront his past anyone to find out her secret… with her voice.’ Pitchfork and find redemption. Tickets from £24.50 Approx 2 hours 30 mins (including interval) Conc £3 off* DRAMA *Selected performances MUSIC ★★★★★ G S Quays Theatre Quays Theatre ‘The best page-to-stage show since War Horse’ The Stage 8pm 8pm S G S

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©Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffl er 2001 Tue 7 - Sun 12 April Sat 18 & Sun 19 April Jump on board the broom with the Join Igglepiggle, Upsy Daisy, Makka witch and her cat in Tall Stories’ Pakka and friends at In the Night fun-filled adaptation of Room on Garden Live for a brand-new show! DRAMA the Broom, the best-selling picture book by Julia Donaldson and Axel You’ll see all your favourite characters Scheffler. beautifully brought to life with Tue 14 - Sat 18 April full-size costumes, magical puppets, In a dilapidated seaside boarding house the Will there ever be room on the and enchanting music that will keep mysterious Stanley Webber receives a visit broom for everyone? Find out in the your little ones captivated. from two sinister strangers, Goldberg and Quays Theatre magical Olivier Award nominated McCann. They arrive on Stanley’s birthday – show for everyone aged three and ‘There’s nothing quite like or is it? What do they want and why do 8pm 2.30pm above. In the Night Garden Live’ they want to turn Stanley’s quiet world The Independent upside down? Wed 15, Sat 18 Approx 1 hour (no interval) Approx 1 hour (no interval) The Everyman Theatre Company brings Tickets from £20.50 together a star cast including Michelle FAMILY Collins (EastEnders, ) Conc £2 off* FAMILY and Tristan Gemmill (Coronation Street, *Selected performances ) to present Harold Pinter’s most G S Quays Theatre Lyric Theatre popular and widely performed darkly-comic masterpiece. 4pm 2pm 11am 10am 12pm 2pm 4pm

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based on the novels of adapted and directed by DeNada Dance Theatre Emma Rice

Mariposa “IT MAKES YOU WANT TO CHEER” Mon 20 April A Cuban rent boy and a foreign sailor fall ominously in love in choreographer Carlos Pons Guerra’s Thu 7 & Fri 8 May MUSICAL transgender reimagining of Puccini’s seminal opera, Madame Butterfly. Following the incredible success of the 2019 UK Tour, dance fans With original music by Luis Miguel will be delighted to hear that Tue 21 - Sat 25 April Cobo, and set in a dockland world of some of their favourite Pros will Prior to London’s West End. voodoo queens and faded showgirls, be returning in a sparkling new Lyric Theatre Mariposa is a passionate drama about tour for 2020. Nostalgic, naughty and perfect for now, the extreme sacrifices we are ready to Malory Towers is a musical of high jinks, high make for love... Don’t miss these amazing drama and high spirits. 7.30pm 2pm dancers as they bring the Approx 1 hour 30 mins (including interval) world’s finest moves to you, for Adapted and directed by Emma Rice (Wise Wed 22, Sat 25 April a Strictly fab-u-lous occasion. Children and Brief Encounter), this is a show for anyone who still dreams about midnight Tickets from £24.50 DANCE feasts, pillow fights and headmistresses like Conc £3 off* DANCE Miss Grayling. *Selected performances G S Quays Theatre Lyric Theatre ‘Jolly good stuff…I loved it’ Daily Mail 8pm 7pm 2.30pm G S Thu 7 David Pugh presents a Wise Children production. Tickets £15 Conc £2 off Tickets from £36

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Commissioned by THE FACTION SCARABEUS A FREE EXHIBITION. FROM SAT 25 APRIL - SUN 6 SEPTEMBER The Lowry for WEEK 53 Sculptor Hew Locke has always been fascinated by how Power is visually projected – by those who have it, and those AERIAL THEATRE who seek it. In this exhibition he focuses on how power is expressed through portraiture, including new sculptures LE GATEAU CHOCOLAT commissioned by The Lowry. ALICE RIPOLL/CIA SUAVE STANZA SELINA THOMPSON FRI 24 APR - SUN 3 MAY MICHAEL BARNES- NYE WYNTERS THOMPSON /artefact Commissioned by Take Back Control Commissioned by The Lowry for WEEK 53 WEEK 53 The Lowry for WEEK 53 MUSIC PARTNER: SAT 25 - MON 27 APRIL SAT 25 APRIL - SUN 6 SEPTEMBER A FESTIVAL A seventy-two hour ‘cult transmission’ inspired by Public In Nye Thompson’s immersive surveillance video Access Television networks of the 1970s from artist, installation, a giant border ‘wall’ of unknown origin has curator and instigator Michael Barnes-Wynters. appeared on Mars. VISIT THELOWRY.COM/WEEK53 FOR THE FULL FESTIVAL LINE UP. 15 16 A CIRQUE BIJOU AND DIVERSE CITY PARTNERSHIP BOOK ANY TWO WEEK 53 EXTRAORDINARY PERFORMANCES BODIES FOR JUST £15 What Am I Worth? FRI 24 & SAT 25 APRIL

In a world where there is not enough to go around, survival hangs in the balance and seven extraordinary bodies are made to prove their worth. Joyously bold and exhilarating gutsy, this new performance features ground-breaking physical moments and a electrifying mix of circus, theatre and original live music.

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SOMETHING TO AIM FOR Commissioned by The Lowry for WEEK 53 LE GATEAU THEATRE ROYAL PLYMOUTH, RICHARD JORDAN PRODUCTIONS AND VOORUIT ALICE KUNSTCENTRUM IN ASSOCIATION WITH BIG IN BELGIUM AND RBC CHOCOLAT PIETRO ONTROEREND Ft. Manchester Camerata RIPOLL/ MARULLO Pandora WRECK - List of Extinct Species GOED SAT 2 & SUN 3 MAY SUN 3 MAY C I A S UAV E £¥€$ (LIES) Cria TUE 28 APRIL THU 30 APRIL THU 30 APRIL - SAT 2 MAY Part song cycle, part theatre, international icon of stage and song Le Gateau Chocolat has been A UK premiere from this Brazillian choreographer and In this ground-breaking piece of dance-theatre a huge, This award-winning company invites you to get under brewing something daring, something delicious, her company of cis and trans dancers performing a mysterious and predatory black object prowls the stage. the skin of the well-to-do and the super-rich. Take a seat something dark, a sensory feast! The one-man mash-up of dance styles that could only come together Around it move local and Italian dancers from Salford in their special casino and play the financial system. musical phenomenon will be joined live on stage by in the melting pot of Rio. and Italy who are swallowed up, and spat back out… After all, the best way to rob a bank is to own one. Manchester Camerata.

ALL TICKETS £10. BOOK ANY TWO WEEK 53 PERFORMANCES FOR JUST £15. VISIT THELOWRY.COM/WEEK53 FOR THE FULL FESTIVAL LINE UP. 17 need for love andforgiveness. play aboutourfragility, resilience andour I Think We Are Aloneisadelicate, uplifting holding onto what we love themost. need to seeagain.Itisaboutlettinggoand need to feel around usandthosefaces we voices we needto hearagain,thosearmswe funny take onouracheto connect withthose I Think We Are Aloneisabittersweet and Graham. co-directed by Kathy Burke and Scott I Think We Are Aloneby SallyAbbott, Anniversary withabrand-new production, Frantic Assembly are celebrating their25th 8pm Thu 14May 8pm Fri 15May Conc Tickets Tue 12-Sat 16May Quays Theatre 14+ 8pm £2 off from £24.50 Wed 13&Thu 14 G 1.30pm 8pm Sat 16May S thelowry.com Sat 16 2pm DRAMA

TM © 1986 CMOL Approx 2hours55mins (includinginterval) astonishingly powerful’ ‘A five-star hit– Century”. Storm thebarricades for aticket! storm andhasbeenhailed“Les Misfor the21st This brilliantnew staging hastaken theworld by musicals. undisputedly oneoftheworld’s most popular countries andin22languages,Les Misérables is Seen by over 120millionpeopleworldwide in52 Les Misérables willplay The Lowry inMay. of BoublilandSchönberg’s musical Cameron Mackintosh’s acclaimed production After adecadesince thelast sell-outUKtour, The Times FOR THE21STCENTURY Huffington Post Tickets Tue 12-Sat 30May Lyric Theatre G 7.30pm Tue 26May, 7.30pm Tue 19May, 7.30pm from £30 Sat 23,Thu 28,Sat 30 Thu 14,Sat 16,Thu 21, 2.30pm MUSICAL 18 19 thelowry.com /TheLowrySalford thelowry.com 20

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Thank You for Neck or Nothing Doing Nothing Sat 16 May Tue 12 - Thu 14 May A comedy musical about climate change This off-beat comedy follows Jens, A Theatre Re production that you’ll actually want to see – from a self-taught inventor, obsessed Sunday Times Award-winning writer with creating the most important Josh Overton and multi award-winning, technological advancement in A Sadler’s Wells 20th anniversary commission Birth Silent Uproar. history: a giant suit to fight bears. Fri 22 - Sat 23 May The Aldridge Studio The Aldridge Studio TOM After the success of its critically 8pm 8pm acclaimed international hit The Tickets £12 Conc £2 off Tickets £12 Conc £2 off Wed 20 & Thu 21 May Nature of Forgetting, Theatre Re returns with a powerful, poignant Set in a hinterland between the and uplifting visual theatre piece DANCE DANCE civilised world and the wilderness, exploring the bond between TOM tells the story of one man’s three generations of women, their journey to rediscover who he really is. shared loss, and the strength they discover in each other. A dance for camera installation, TOM is the latest creation of award-winning choreographer, film-maker and ★★★★★ Sadler’s Wells New Wave Associate Wilkie Branson. ‘Ravishingly beautiful, Far Gone The Band & Audition Approx 1 hour (no interval) spellbinding piece of work’ The Arts Desk Thu 4 June Fri 22 & Sat 23 May Levantes Dance Theatre share a DANCE stunning double bill in their trademark John Rwoth-Omack’s Far Gone is a gut DRAMA blend of dance, theatre and circus. kicking one-man performance about The Band is a quirky display of blind the transformation of a boy into child Quays Theatre Quays Theatre ambition, Audition plays with our soldier by Uganda’s notorious LRA. morbid fascination with true crime. 8pm 6pm 8pm G S G S The Aldridge Studio 8pm The Aldridge Studio 8pm Tickets £12 Conc £10 Tickets £12 Conc £2 off Tickets £12 Tickets £16 21 Ralph McTell 41 Guilty Feminist Podcast 41 JUNE JULY Mon 20 DeNada Dance Theatre - Mariposa 11 Paul McCaffrey 40 Mon 1 Resisting Wokeness: An Evening 32 Tue 21 Malory Towers 12 Sun 10 Tom Stade 40 Wed 1 Derren Brown: Showman Accessible performances with Andrew Doyle & Douglas 12 Intotheclouds 25 Thu 2 Derren Brown: Showman 32 See page 1 for details Wed 22 Malory Towers Murray 12 Tue 12 Les Miserables 18 Fri 3 Derren Brown: Showman 32 Thu 23 Malory Towers Wed 3 Northern Ballet’s Cinderella 24 12 I Think We Are Alone 17 Distinctive: The Brains of Dance APRIL Fri 24 Malory Towers Laura Lexx: Knee Jerk 15 Thank You for Doing Nothing 20 Sat 4 Derren Brown: Showman 32 WEEK 53: Extraordinary Bodies - Thu 4 Northern Ballet’s Cinderella 24 DATE TITLE Pg # What Am I Worth? (BSL / AD / R) Wed 13 Les Miserables 18 The Lancashire Hotpots – Chips 41 Levantes Dance Theatre: The Band 20 and Giggles WEEK 53: Charmaine Childs - Power I Think We Are Alone 17 & Audition Wed 1 Message In A Bottle 6 Tue 7 32 WEEK 53: CRXSS PLATFXRM Thank You for Doing Nothing 20 Fri 5 Northern Ballet’s Cinderella 24 Derren Brown: Showman The Last Of The Pelican Daughters 7 12 (BSL 8pm) Sat 25 Malory Towers Thu 14 Les Miserables 18 Romeo and Julie 26 Jo Bannon: We are F****d WEEK 53: Extraordinary Bodies - 15 17 Wed 8 Derren Brown: Showman 32 I Think We Are Alone (BSL 8pm) Funeral Flowers 31 Thu 2 Message In A Bottle (AD - 2pm) 6 What Am I Worth? (BSL / AD / R) 20 Thu 9 Derren Brown: Showman 32 Thank You for Doing Nothing Sat 6 Northern Ballet’s Cinderella (AD 6pm) 24 The Last of the Pelican Daughters 7 WEEK 53: Charmaine Childs - Power 18 Fri 10 Derren Brown: Showman 32 Fri 15 Les Miserables Romeo and Julie 26 Jack Gleadow - Mr Saturday Night 40 WEEK 53: CRXSS PLATFXRM 17 Sat 11 Derren Brown: Showman 32 I Think We Are Alone (CAP 8pm) Sun 7 An Evening With David Sedaris 41 Fri 3 Message In A Bottle 6 Tue 28 WEEK 53: Stewart Lee - Sat 16 Les Miserables 18 CAT End of Year Showcase 31 SNOWFLAKE / TORNADO Robert White: Tank Top Tour Lucinda Chua 7 I Think We Are Alone (AD 8pm) 17 Sun 12 CAT End of Year Showcase 31 WEEK 53: Alice Ripoll / Cia Suave 15 Mon 8 Romeo and Julie 26 Ladykiller Neck or Nothing 20 Sat 18 Absolute Bowie - Legacy Tour 41 – CRIA Tue 9 Romeo and Julie 26 Sat 4 Message In A Bottle 6 Sun 17 Dublin Legends 41 Sun 19 Burlesque 41 WEEK 53: Martin Messier - FIELD Wed 10 Romeo and Julie (BSL 8pm) 26 NT Connections John Archer 40 Mon 20 I’m Sorry, Prime Minister 33 Wed 29 WEEK 53: Stewart Lee - Thu 11 Enter Achilles 27 NT Connections 18 Tue 21 Everybody’s Talking About Jamie 34 SNOWFLAKE / TORNADO Mon 18 Les Miserables 26 40 Romeo and Julie Sun 5 Jonathan Pie Thu 30 WEEK 53: Stewart Lee - Steve Hughes - Are You Serious? 40 I’m Sorry, Prime Minister 33 Tom Houghton 26 NT Connections SNOWFLAKE / TORNADO HMS Pinafore and The Zoo Wed 22 Everybody’s Talking About Jamie 34 Fri 12 Enter Achilles 27 NT Connections WEEK 53: Ontroerend Goed – 16 Tue 19 Les Miserables (CAP 7.30pm) 18 I’m Sorry, Prime Minister 33 8 Romeo and Julie (CAP 8pm) 26 Tue 7 The Kite Runner £¥€$ (LIES) Ralph McTell 41 Thu 23 Everybody’s Talking About Jamie 34 40 15 Sexy Lamp 31 Simon Evans - The Work of... WEEK 53: Pietro Marullo – HMS Pinafore and The Zoo I’m Sorry, Prime Minister 33 10 WRECK, list of extinct species Sat 13 Harris and Baker - Back Stage Pass 40 Room on the Broom Wed 20 Les Miserables 18 Fri 24 Everybody’s Talking About Jamie 34 WEEK 53: The Faction – Romeo and Julie (AD 8pm) 26 Wed 8 The Kite Runner 8 TOM 19 33 Pericles in Libya I’m Sorry, Prime Minister Chris Washington and Alun... 40 Sexy Lamp 31 HMS Pinafore and The Zoo Sat 25 Everybody’s Talking About Jamie 34 10 WEEK 53: Scarabeus Aerial Theatre Sun 14 : All Balls 41 Room on the Broom (R 2pm) Thu 21 Les Miserables 18 33 - POWERFLEX and Glitter I’m Sorry, Prime Minister Thu 9 The Kite Runner (CAP 7.30pm) 8 TOM 19 Josie Long 40 Mon 27 Everybody’s Talking About Jamie 34 Dave Spikey - A Funny Thing... 40 HMS Pinafore and The Zoo MAY Steve Hall and Steve Williams 40 Tue 28 Everybody’s Talking About Jamie 34 Room on the Broom (AD 2pm) 10 Fri 22 Les Miserables 18 Fri 1 WEEK 53: Stewart Lee - Mon 15 Salford Dance Explosion Zog 35 Fri 10 The Kite Runner (AD 7.30pm) 8 SNOWFLAKE / TORNADO Birth 19 Tue 16 Dial M for Murder 28 Wed 29 Everybody’s Talking About Jamie 34 4MG WEEK 53: Ontroerend Goed – 16 Far Gone 20 Wed 17 Dial M for Murder (CAP 7:30pm) 28 (AD 7.30pm) Room on the Broom (BSL 2pm) 10 £¥€$ (LIES) Sat 23 Les Miserables 18 The Dan Daw Show 31 Zog 35 Sat 11 The Kite Runner (BSL 7.30pm) 8 WEEK 53: The Faction – 19 Birth Thu 30 Everybody’s Talking About Jamie 34 41 Pericles in Libya Ruthie Henshall Far Gone 20 (BSL 7.30pm) WEEK 53: Scarabeus Aerial Theatre Thu 18 Dial M for Murder (AD 7.30pm) 28 Room on the Broom (CAP 11am) 10 Sun 24 Clive Anderson 40 35 - POWERFLEX Fri 19 Dial M for Murder 28 Zog Titania McGrath 40 Jonny Awsum 40 34 Sat 2 WEEK 53: Stewart Lee - Black Waters 29 Fri 31 Everybody’s Talking About Jamie Sun 12 Frank Skinner: Showbiz 40 Mon 25 Les Miserables 18 SNOWFLAKE / TORNADO 40 (CAP 7.30pm) 41 Any Suggestions Doctor? Ben Hart: Wonder Contra 23 Zog 35 WEEK 53: Ontroerend Goed – 16 Sat 20 Dial M for Murder (BSL 2pm) 28 Room on the Broom 10 Tue 26 Les Miserables (AD 7.30pm) 18 £¥€$ (LIES) 29 40 Black Waters Tue 14 Phil Wang WEEK 53: Le Gateau Chocolat - PANDORA 16 Oi Frog & Friends 225 The Birthday Party 9 The Killer Question WEEK 53: The Faction – Ivo Graham 40 41 Sun 21 St Anne’s Hospice Comedy Night Wed 15 An Evening with Ryan Giggs Pericles in Libya Thu 28 Les Miserables 18 9 The Great Race! 25 The Birthday Party WEEK 53: Scarabeus Aerial Theatre Oi Frog & Friends 25 9 Mon 22 Once (AD) 30 Thu 16 The Birthday Party - POWERFLEX Fri 29 Les Miserables 18 9 16 Tue 23 Once (AD) 30 Fri 17 The Birthday Party Sun 3 WEEK 53: Le Gateau Chocolat - Oi Frog & Friends 25 10 PANDORA (BSL 8.30pm) Aakash Odera - Samsara 29 Sat 18 In The Night Garden Andy Parsons - Healing The Nation 9 Mon 4 The Children’s Shakespeare Festival Wed 24 Once (AD) 30 The Birthday Party You and I: A New Musical 23 11 The Children’s Shakespeare Festival Sun 19 40 Thu 7 - The 18 Sat 30 Les Miserables 30 10 Professionals 2020 Thu 25 Once (AD) In The Night Garden Oi Frog & Friends 25 Broadway Nights To West End Days Fri 26 Once (AD) 30 You and I: A New Musical 23 All Saints Variety Show Sat 27 Once (AD) 30 Sun 31 Oi Frog & Friends 25 Fri 8 Strictly Come Dancing - The 11 Mon 29 MAPAS Professionals 2021 Tue 30 Derren Brown: Showman 32 23 thelowry.com @The_Lowry 24

Colla Voce Laura Murphy You & I: Contra A New Musical Mon 25 May Fri 29 & Sat 30 May Fierce, witty and uncompromising, Contra interrogates personal, social A witty, moving musical exploring DANCE and historical occupations of the the relationship between humans female body using a fusion of and artificial intelligence. What circus, stand up comedy and live do you do when the world’s first Wed 3 - Sat 6 June art. super intelligent robot turns up at your door asking about the origins Escape into an enchanting wonderland with Expect scenes of nudity, aerial of the universe, karaoke and the Northern Ballet’s beautiful Cinderella. Lyric Theatre acrobatics, and explicit references meaning of porn? Fran is about to to mythical reptiles and female find out... In this sparkling adaptation of the classic 7.30pm 2pm sexuality. A co-commission with The Lowry rags-to-riches tale, Cinders is whisked away from her wicked step-mother to a glistening Thu 4, Sat 6 Approx 1 hour (no interval) lake of ice where she meets her Prince.

You won’t believe your eyes as Northern Tickets from £25 Conc £3 off* CIRCUS Ballet’s remarkable dancers bring their MUSICAL signature magic to the ultimate feel-good *Selected performances fairytale. G S Quays Theatre The Aldridge Studio The perfect entertainment for the whole family, book your tickets to the ball. Sat 6 Jun, 2pm 8pm 8pm 16+ S G S Approx 2 hours 5 mins (including interval) Tickets £14 Conc £2 off Tickets £12 Conc £2 off 25 thelowry.com 0343 208 6000 26

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Intotheclouds

Sun 10 May 1pm 3pm

0-18 months 18 - 36 months Parent & Baby Tickets £12

A powerful and funny new play The Great Race! by Gary Owen By A Thousand Cranes Tue 26 - Sun 31 May Sun 21 June 1pm 3pm Join Frog, Cat and Dog in the hit musical adaptation of Kes Gray and Jim Field’s DRAMA Tickets £9.50 4+ Conc £3 off bestselling series of books, direct from the West End. Frog is looking for a place to sit, but Cat The National Theatre and Sherman Theatre present Fri 5 - Sat 13 June has other ideas and Dog is doing as he’s the world premiere of Romeo and Julie, a powerful told. Little do any of them know that and funny new play inspired by Shakespeare’s Quays Theatre chaos is coming.... romantic tragedy. Who knew there were so many rhyming Romeo is a teenage dad hanging on tight. Julie is 8pm 2.30pm rules and what will happen when Frog is fighting for her dream of studying at Cambridge. in charge? Expect original song, laughs Two eighteen year-olds raised a few streets apart, Wed 10, Fri 12 and more rhymes than you can shake a but from entirely different worlds, crash into first chime at in this five-star production. love. But at this crossroads to the rest of their lives, Tickets from £24.50 both families fear the worst. Conc £2 off

FAMILY ★★★★★ 14+ G S ‘Painfully vivid and Quays Theatre devastatingly funny’ Romeo and Julie image by Felicity McCabe. Evening Standard on Iphigenia in Splott 2pm 11am 3+ G S Wed 27 - Sun 31 Tickets from £17.50 Wed 10 Jun Fri 12 Jun Sat 13 Jun 8pm 8pm 8pm 27 /TheLowrySalford 28

TOM Rambert & Sadler’s Wells CHAMBERS present SAMANTHA WOMACK

Christopher Harper

Enter Michael Salami Achilles A work by Lloyd Newson (DV8 Physical Theatre) Choreography: Lloyd Newson with the performers (past and present)

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25 years after dance iconoclast Lloyd Thu 11 & Fri 12 June , (Top Hat, Strictly Come Dancing) Tue 16 - Sat 20 June Newson first dragged British pub culture stars in this production as Tony Wendice, a jaded kicking and yelling onto the stage, his ex-tennis pro who gave everything up for his wife ‘rare, rich, devastating, triumphant work of Lyric Theatre Margot, played by Samantha Womack (The Girl Lyric Theatre art’ (Daily Telegraph) returns. on the Train, EastEnders, The Kingsman series). When he discovers she has been unfaithful his 7.30pm As pertinent now as when first staged, mind turns to revenge. 7.30pm 2pm

Enter Achilles wrestles with the notion of Wed 17, Thu 18, Sat 20 Featuring Christopher Harper (Coronation Street) masculinity, through the funny, provocative Tickets from £22.50 and disturbing actions of eight men during and Michael Salami () Dial M for Murder, Conc £3 off Tickets from £24.50 an evening in a British pub. is the seat-gripping drama not to be missed! Conc £3 off 15+ ‘Remarkably clever and G S ‘A taut, acidly funny thriller’ G S disturbing... It is excellently Image by Hugo Glendinning. The Guardian danced, imaginatively ‘A precision-engineered delight’ conceived...’ The Telegraph Sunday Telegraph

No latecomers, filming or photography is permitted Wed 17 Jun Thu 18 Jun Sat 20 Jun 7.30pm 7.30pm 2pm 29 thelowry.com @The_Lowry 30 THE INTERNATIONAL AWARD-WINNING MUSICAL

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ “A GIFT OF A SHOW”

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Aakash Odedra

Fri 19 & Sat 20 June Samsara

Tue 23 June BOOK BY ENDA WALSH. MUSIC AND LYRICS BY GLEN HANSARD AND MARKETA IRGLOVA. In the late 18th century, the owners BASED ON THE MOTION PICTURE. WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY JOHN CARNEY. of the Zong ship attempted to claim PERFORMED BY ARRANGEMENT WITH MUSIC THEATRE INTERNATIONAL (EUROPE) LTD. Aakash Odedra Company and MUSICAL insurance on the lives of the 130 Bagri Foundation invite you slaves that they threw overboard. to enter the world of Samsara. Over 100 years later the Kala Pani Journey through the vast histories prison was used by British colonial Once is an uplifting, vibrant and beautiful Mon 22 - Sat 27 June and cultures of China and India forces to incarcerate Indian freedom love letter to Ireland’s music scene. in this physical and spiritual fighters who spoke out against the dance performance. Created and Lyric Theatre regime. Phoenix Dance Theatre You will fall in love with this multi award performed by international dance present a new piece inspired by winning Broadway and West End hit about artists Aakash Odedra (UK/India) these two historical narratives in a two people who unexpectedly fall in love. and Hu Shenyuan (China), with live 7.30pm 2pm gripping and emotionally evocative The talented actor musician cast perform music by composer and vocalist production. the amazing sound track live on stage Wed 24, Sat 27 Nicki Wells (UK/Switzerland). including Falling Slowly which won an Oscar for best original song. Tickets from £30.50 DANCE Conc £3 off* DANCE ★★★★★ *Selected performances S Quays Theatre Quays Theatre ‘Unashamedly romantic 8pm 8pm and wholeheartedly All Performances G S G S wonderful’ Rewrite This Story Tickets £16 Conc £2 off Tickets from £15 Conc £2 off

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Funeral Flowers Sexy Lamp Produced by Daisy Hale Fri 5 June Fri 12 & Sat 13 June Part poetry, part play; the award Katie Arnstein’s award winning winning Funeral Flowers tells the story light comedy. With shade. Shining a of a young woman growing up in the spotlight on ‘The Industry’ through care system. (real life) story and song.

The Aldridge Studio The Aldridge Studio 8pm 8pm Tickets £12 Conc £10 Tickets £12 Conc £2 off

DRAMA DANCE DANCE

Tue 30 June - The multi award-winning master of mind Sat 11 July control and psychological illusion returns to launch his first brand new theatre show Lyric Theatre in five years,Derren Brown - Showman.

The content of the show remains a 8pm 2pm The Dan Daw Show CAT End of Year Show closely guarded secret, but if you’ve Wed 17 June Sat 11 & Sun 12 July seen him before, you know you’re in for a Sat 4, Sat 11 powerhouse treat! The Lowry Centre for Advanced Training Tickets from £36.50 A peep into the shiny and sweaty showcase the talent of our dance push pull of living with shame students who have been working with ‘Be brainwashed into joy 12+ while bursting with pride. Joseph Toonga, Arielle, and Daisy Howell and Aaron Howell. by one of the world’s best magicians’ Tue 7 Jul, 8pm The Aldridge Studio Quays Theatre New York Times 8pm 8pm Tickets £12 Conc £2 off Tickets £9 Conc £3 off 33 thelowry.com /TheLowrySalford 34

SIMON CLIVE CALLOW FRANCIS

I CAN’T QUITE REMEMBER

WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY JONATHAN LYNN

MUSICAL DRAMA

The smash-hit musical comes to The Lowry, Tue 21 July - Mon 20 – Sat 25 July featuring West End star Layton Williams and Sat 1 August Former Prime Minister Jim Hacker faces EastEnders’ much-loved Shane Richie as Hugo/ Loco Chanelle, both reprising their roles from eviction from his grand Master’s Lodge at Lyric Theatre Hacker College, Oxford. Can his former Quays Theatre the critically acclaimed West End production. Cabinet Secretary, Sir Humphrey Appleby, Funny, fabulous and feelgood, this is the save the day one last time? The final 7.30pm 2pm hilarious chapter in the classic Yes, Prime 7.30pm 2pm musical sensation for all the family and not to be missed! Minister series continues its biting satire on Wed 22, Sat 25 Wed 23, Sat 25, the political classes. ★★★★★ ★★★★★ Wed 29, Sat 1 Tickets from £31.50 Starring acclaimed British actor Simon The Times WhatsOnStage Tickets from £30.50 Callow (Four Weddings and a Funeral, Conc £3 off* *Selected performances ★★★★★ ★★★★★ Conc £3 off Amadeus, Shakespeare in Love) and Clive The Independent Attitude Francis (An Inspector Calls, Les Blancs, G S The Crown), and penned and directed by ★★★★★ ★★★★★ G S Jonathan Lynn (My Cousin Vinny, Nuns On The Stage Time Out The Run), one of the original writers of Yes, Prime Minister. Wed 29 Jul Thu 30 Jul Fri 31 Jul 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm

35 thelowry.com @The_Lowry 36 Zog © 2010 Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler. Published by Alison Green Books, an imprint of Scholastic Children’s Books

FRECKLE PRODUCTIONS AND ROSE THEATRE KINGSTON PRESENT

WITH BRAND NEW SONGS FROM JOE STILGOE · DIRECTED BY EMMA KILBEY LIVE ON STAGE HHHH SUPERBLY FUN, COLOURFUL AND HEARTWARMING MY THEATRE MATES (ON THE 2019 PRODUCTION)

FAMILY FAMILY

Tue 28 July - Tue 18 - Sun 30 August Large in size, and keen in nature, Zog is Sun 16 August Gerald the Giraffe longs to join in with the so eager to win a golden star at Madam other animals at the annual Jungle Dance. Dragon’s school, he bumps, burns and But everyone knows that giraffes can’t Quays Theatre roars his way through. Luckily, the plucky Quays Theatre dance… or can they? Princess Pearl patches him up ready to face his biggest challenge yet… Perfect for audiences aged 2+, Giles 2pm 11am 11am 2pm 4.30pm Andreae and Guy Parker-Rees’ African jungle bursts to life with songs and plenty Sat 1, Sun 2, Sat 8, With brand new songs from Joe Stilgoe, Sun 9, Sat 15, Sun 16 of dancing! Tickets £18 directed by Emma Kilbey, the smash-hit Conc £2 off stage adaptation of much-loved Zog is a £18 £2 off magical production for all ages. Tickets Conc ★★★★ 2+ G S G S Approx 1 hour (no interval) ‘A fabulous adaptation brings the beats of the jungle to life. Wed 5 Aug, 2pm A joy for the young and the young at heart’ 2pm Sat 8 Aug, Beyond the Curtain thelowry.com 0343 208 6000 37 HHHHH 38 ‘A beautiful, dazzlingly inventive show about ‘COMEDY PERFECTION the wonders of life.’ AN AUDITORIUM OF ALL AGES NEARLY CHOKED THEMSELVES TO DEATH LAUGHING’ Evening Standard Daily Mail

BASED ON THE BEST-SELLING NOVEL BY ADAPTED BY FROM THE MARK HADDON SIMON STEPHENS ‘UTTER JOY. CREATORS OF HHHHH HHHH TOP OF THE CLASS’ ‘Prepare to be moved, amused, ‘A scintillating piece WhatsOnStage challenged and amazed.’ of theatre.’

Photo by Simon Turtle featuring the original West End cast. featuring 2020 cast the original West to be announced. yet Simon Turtle Photo by Lancashire Telegraph Manchester Evening News

DRAMA COMEDY The National Theatre’s smash hit production of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Fri 18 September - Fri 21 - Sun 30 August Night-Time returns to Salford! Sat 3 October Following their phenomenal rise to global success with The Play That Goes Wrong, Lyric Theatre Fifteen-year-old Christopher has an multi award-winning Mischief return to extraordinary brain – exceptional at maths, Lyric Theatre The Lowry with their brand new comedy while ill-equipped to interpret everyday life. all about growing up. 7.30pm 2pm He has never ventured alone beyond the end of his road, he detests being touched and 7.30pm 2pm Do we choose who we become? Is the story Fri 21, Sat 22, Sat 22, Sun 23, he distrusts strangers. When he falls under of our lives already written? Do we ever Tue 25 - Sat 29 Wed 26, Sat 29, suspicion for killing his neighbour’s dog, it Sat 19, Wed 23, Sat 26, Sun 30 Wed 30, Sat 3 really grow up? takes him on a journey that upturns his world. Tickets from £23 Follow an unruly classroom of six year- Tickets from £28 Conc £2 off* Hailed as ‘extraordinary,’ ‘dazzling’ and olds on their journey through anarchic ‘unmissable’ by Time Magazine, The Curious Conc £3 off *Selected performances high school teenagers to the challenges of Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a G S adulthood. S theatrical phenomenon simply not to be missed. Bag your tickets early. This is a lesson not to be skipped!

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by Emily Brontë, adapted by Emma Rice

A National Theatre and Wise Children co-production in association with York Theatre Royal

DRAMA JACK GLEADOW THU 2 PAUL MCCAFFREY SAT 9 ANDREW DOYLE & DOUGLAS MURRAY MON 1 JONATHAN PIE SUN 5 TOM STADE SUN 10 LAURA LEXX WED 3 Thu 15 - Sat 24 October SIMON EVANS TUE 7 JOHN ARCHER SUN 17 ROBERT WHITE SUN 7 A romantic revenge tragedy. CHRIS WASHINGTON AND STEVE HUGHES MON 18 TOM HOUGHTON THU 11 Lyric Theatre ALUN COCHRANE WED 8 Rescued from the docks as a child, CLIVE ANDERSON SUN 24 HARRIS AND BAKER SAT 13 Heathcliff is adopted into the Earnshaws’ DAVE SPIKEY THU 9 farmhouse home of Wuthering Heights. JONNY AWSUM SUN 24 STEVE HALL AND 7.30pm 2pm TITANIA MCGRATH SAT 11 STEVE WILLIAMS SUN 14 IVO GRAHAM WED 27 Lost in his new surroundings, he finds a kindred Sat 17, Wed 21, Sat 24 FRANK SKINNER SUN 12 JOSIE LONG SUN 14 spirit in Catherine Earnshaw, and their fierce ANDY PARSONS FRI 29 love ignites. But when forced apart, they PHIL WANG TUE 14 ANY SUGGESTIONS DOCTOR? FRI 19 unleash a brutal chain of events that will haunt Tickets from £24 THE NOISE NEXT DOOR SUN 31 £3 off ROSS NOBLE SUN 19 generations to come. Conc IAIN STIRLING SUN 31 ST ANNE’S HOSPICE COMEDY NIGHT SUN 21 STEWART LEE TUE 28 - SAT 2 Shot through with music, dance, passion and S JEN BRISTER WED 24 hope, Emma Rice (Romantics Anonymous, Wise Children, Brief Encounter) transforms Emily Brontë’s masterpiece into a uniquely theatrical experience. Lucy McCormick (Post Popular) and John Pfumojena (Peter Pan) lead the company of performers and musicians. FOR FULL LISTINGS VISIT THELOWRY.COM/COMEDY Special Guests Access Info Booking & 42 The Lowry is dedicated to making Contact Info your visit as comfortable and easy Online: thelowry.com Deliciously Ella as possible. 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