Lizzie at Hope Mill Theatre
Lizzie Borden took an axe and gave her mother forty whacks. When she saw what she had done, she gave her father forty-one. The well-known rhyme forms the basis of the latest musical offering from Ancoats’ award-winning Hope Mill Theatre. LIZZIE: The Musical premiered...
Lear at Hope Mill Ancoats
From the Cobbles to Centre Stage Coronation Street’s Christine Mackie takes the title role in all female and non-binary production of the Iconic Shakesperean Tragedy LEAR LEAR Hope Mill Theatre Presented by HER Productions, Unseemly Women/All Female Shakespeare and...
Animal at Hope Mill Theatre : review
“Animal”, a new joint production production between Park Theatre and Hope Mill Theatre, runs until the 2nd April at Hope Mill in New Islington. It tells The frustrations stem from a lack of any kind of sex life – he can’t even pleasure himself – and I took the title...
Head over Heels at Hope Mill
In the 16th century, Sir Philip Sidney wrote the prose romance The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia; in the 1970s, The Go-Gos debuted on the American punk scene; in 2015 Jeff Whitty conceived a show (later adapted by James Magruder) bringing both elements...


