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Frank Turner & The Sleeping Souls Head To Victoria Hall

Frank Turner & The Sleeping Souls Head To Victoria Hall

Frank Turner & The Sleeping Souls will entertain Stoke-on-Trent audiences at the Victoria Hall as part of their The Never Ending Tour of Everywhere. They will be joined by very special guests Lottery Winners and Wilswood Buoys. Frank Turner is one of the UK’s most successful artists. He’s released 9 studio albums in his 17-year solo career, the most recent of which, ‘FTHC’ (Feb 2022) became his first #1 hit on the UK Official Album Chart. His previous four albums have all peaked at #2 or #3 in the chart. Having sold over a million albums worldwide, he has scored three gold-certified albums and one silver…
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Casting announced for Neil Gaiman’s The Ocean at the End of the Lane

Casting announced for Neil Gaiman’s The Ocean at the End of the Lane

Casting is announced for the National Theatre’s critically-acclaimed production of The Ocean at the End of the Lane, based on the best-selling novel by Neil Gaiman. Adapted by Joel Horwood and directed by Katy Rudd, this thrilling adventure of fantasy, myth and friendship will visit the Regent Theatre, Stoke-on-Trent for the first time, playing from Tuesday 12 to Saturday 16 September as part of a 40 week tour across the UK and Ireland. The cast includes, Daniel Cornish (alternate Boy), Trevor Fox (Dad), Emma-Jane Goodwin (understudy), Paolo Guidi (ensemble), Millie Hikasa (Lettie Hempstock), Lewis Howard (understudy), Kemi-Bo Jacobs (Ginnie Hempstock), Ronnie Lee (ensemble), Aimee McGoldrick (ensemble), Laurie Ogden (Sis), Keir Ogilvy (Boy), Domonic Ramsden (ensemble), Joe Rawlinson-Hunt (understudy), Risha Silvera (understudy) and Finty Williams (Old Mrs Hempstock).  Further casting to be announced. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkft7BaUVCU Daniel Cornish’s previous theatre credits include A Certain…
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Review: Ayckbourn’s Family Album at New Vic

Review: Ayckbourn’s Family Album at New Vic

Photo Credit: Tony Bartholomew The New Vic, fresh from its 60th anniversary celebrations last weekend plays host to Alan Ayckbourn's 87th play, starting tonight, a mere few weeks after its premier in Scarborough in September. One of several plays penned during lockdown, Sir Alan himself saying that this particular one was inspired by a BBC4 programme called 'A House Through Time', about a house and the resident's therein going back hundreds of years. Rather than the span of centuries, Family Album is enclosed to a window within Ayckbourn's lifetime. Simultaneously layering the inhabitants of the same living room through three…
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Cast Announced For Death Drop 2

Cast Announced For Death Drop 2

Legendary drag queens and stars of RuPaul’s Drag Race, Cheryl Hole (Celebrity Juice, The Only Way is Essex), River Medway and Victoria Scone lead an all-drag cast including Drag King superstar LoUis CYfer (Winner – Drag Idol, Death Drop) in this murder mystery comedy.  A gaggle of fierce Nuns are confined to their Convent. But their peace and tranquillity is shattered by a serial slayer slashing their way through the sisters. With the help of an unexpected visitor from the Vatican, can Mother Superior and the rag-tag Sisters of St Babs save their convent, save souls, and save themselves? The laughs keep coming in this nun-missable new murder mystery – it’s…
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Revamped Godber Play ‘Shakers’ Comes To New Vic

Revamped Godber Play ‘Shakers’ Comes To New Vic

The double BAFTA-winning partnership of John Godber and Jane Thornton bring Shakers bang up-to-date in this revitalized version of the iconic play which puts women’s lives front and centre, as everyone returns to going ‘out out’. The sister play to John Godber’s smash hit Bouncers, Shakers: Under New Management, written by John Godber and Jane Thornton and directed by John Godber, will be performed at the New Vic from Tuesday 25 to Saturday 29 October. The high street might be struggling to get back to normal but the Shakers bar is ‘under new management’ and they are determined to make it the place to be seen.…
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Interview: Opera Star Yvonne Howard

Interview: Opera Star Yvonne Howard

OnInMyCity interview Mezzo-Soprano Yvonne Howard. Yvonne talks about her extensive career so far, performing Opera whilst flying across stage, performing around the world and of course, Gilbert & Sullivan and her upcoming appearing at Victoria Hall, Hanley Yvonne is part of the production of Gilbert & Sullivan on at Victoria Hall on 1st October. Please see here for ticket information
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Review: Blood Brothers – Truly Gripping 5*

Review: Blood Brothers – Truly Gripping 5*

Photo by Jack Merriman Now in its 34th year, the fantastic Blood Brothers musical opened this evening at Regent Theatre. The play and score written by legendary writer Willy Russell (Educating Rita, Shirley Valentine, Our Day Out plus many others) is an analysis of nature versus nurture as well as an important social study of the era. Set in 1980's Liverpool amongst the height of Thatcher's power in office, the plot centres around twins Eddie and Mickey who are separated at birth, with one growing up in a wealthy family, the other in poverty. Firm friends and 'blood brothers', but…
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Alan Ayckbourn’s latest play Family Album arrives at the New Vic next month.

Alan Ayckbourn’s latest play Family Album arrives at the New Vic next month.

Following its premiere at the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough, Alan Ayckbourn’s latest play Family Album arrives at the New Vic next month. Performed at the New Vic from Tuesday 11 October to Saturday 22 October, Family Album chronicles the trials, tribulations and temptations of three generations of one family across 70 years in the same home. Join housewife Peggy and RAF veteran John as they proudly move into the first home they can really call their own; daughter Sandra, frantically negotiating the challenges of a 10-year-old’s birthday party without her AWOL husband; and granddaughter Alison and her partner Jess finally escaping the house…
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Helen Forrester’s Twopence to Cross the Mersey Opens Next Wednesday In Crewe

Helen Forrester’s Twopence to Cross the Mersey Opens Next Wednesday In Crewe

Based on the late author’s million-selling autobiography, the play written by Rob Fennah, chronicles Helen’s early life during The Great Depression in 1930s Liverpool.Featuring a cast of 9 playing over 40 characters, the period drama is set in the early 1930s in the midst of the Great Depression. Helen's spendthrift father was declared bankrupt forcing the family to leave behind the nannies, servants, and beautiful middle-class home in the gentler South West of England. With nothing more than the clothes they stood up in, thefamily of nine took the train to Liverpool where they hoped to rebuild their shattered lives.…
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Marvellous Cast Visit Stoke City Fc’s Bet365 Stadium

Marvellous Cast Visit Stoke City Fc’s Bet365 Stadium

The cast of the New Vic Theatre’s latest show had a Marvellous day out this week at the bet365 stadium with Stoke City FC’s former kitman Neil ‘Nello’ Baldwin, whose life the play is based on. Back by popular demand, Marvellous takes to the stage at the New Vic from Saturday 17 September to Saturday 8 October, after its first smash-hit run earlier this year. Helping the original cast of seven get back into character ready for the show to reopen, Neil showed them around his beloved football ground and even pointed out his usual seat where he watches the games. Cast members Suzanne…
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