Shows - 24/10/08

Feb 4 2009 by Michael Green, Chester Chronicle

SHOWS

ALSAGER: February 10 - LANWest present In Transit - some of the next generation of boundary pushers working in new performance at 8pm at Alsager Arts Centre. Tickets £7, £4.50 concessions. Ring 0161 247 5302 or visit www.alsagerartscentre.org.uk.

ALSAGER: February 12 - Simple Girl - a collection of eccentric tales, dark confessions and touchingly wry humour featuring Melanie Wilson, founder of international touring company Petter, at Alsager Arts Centre at 7.30pm. Tickets £7, £4.50 concessions. Ring 0161 247 5302 or visit www.alsagerartscentre.org.uk.

ALSAGER: February 12 - Trace Theatre present Clapping Our Hands and Hoping To Fly at Alsager Arts Centre at 8.30pm. Tickets £7, £4.50 concessions. Ring 0161 247 5302 or visit www.alsagerartscentre.org.uk.

CHESTER: February 5-6 - Chester Operatic Society presents

Melodies to Remember at Chester’s Guildhall at 7.30pm with songs from Mamma Mia and Les Miserables and more memorable favourites. Tickets are £10, including free light refreshments during the interval, from 01244 375662.

CHESTER: February 7 - Comedy with Duncan Oakley, Anthony J Brown and Chris Brooker at Alexander’s in Rufus Court.

CREWE: February 11 - The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler starring Jennifer Ellison, Jenny Eclair and Wendi Peters at the Lyceum Theatre in Heath Street at 7.30pm. Tickets £18.50, £15.50. Call the box office on 01270 537 333 or visit www.lyceumtheatre.net.

CREWE: February 13 - Star psychic Sally Morgan brings her first UK tour to the Lyceum Theatre in Heath Street at 7.30pm. Tickets £19. Call the box office on 01270 537 333 or visit www.lyceumtheatre.net.

LLANDUDNO: February 13-14 - Rambert Dance Company presents its Eternal Light Tour 2009 Tour, a collaboration between artistic director Mark Baldwin and composer Howard Goodall, featuring live music performed by London Musici and the Amici del Canto choir, at Venue Cymru at 7.30pm. Tickets £22-£12. Ring 01492 872000 or visit www.venuecymru.co.uk.

MANCHESTER: February 9 - Sing-a-long-a Sound of Music - a screening of the classic film together with subtitles for everyone to singalong, at the Opera House in Quay Street at 7pm. Tickets £14.50. Visit www.palaceandoperahouse.org.uk

MANCHESTER: February 13 - Comedian Dylan Moran brings his acclaimed stand up show What It Is to the Opera House in Quay Street at 8pm. Tickets £19. Visit www.palaceandoperahouse.org.uk

MOLLINGTON: February 7 - Deckchair Theatre present Life of a Failed Pop Star - Dave Lawton has written a host of new pop songs charting the rise and fall of a career that has seen him singing onstage to thousands as well as selling children’s clothes to a one-armed sailor on the Isle of Man, at Miollington Village Hall at 7.30pm. Tickets £9-£5. Ring 01244 851395.

NEWCASTLE-UNDER-LYME: February 9 - Flamenco Express at the New Vic Theatre in Etruria Road at 7.30pm. Tickets £16-£12. Ring 01782 717962 or visit www.newvictheatre.org.uk.

RHYL: February 7 - Buddy Holly’s Winter Dance Party Tour featuring Marc Robinson as Buddy Holly at the Pavilion Theatre at 7.30pm. Tickets £14.50, concessions £1.50 off. Ring 01745 330000 or visit www.rhylpavilion.co.uk.

RHYL: February 11 - Simon Yates: Beyond The Void - one of the men at the centre of the 1985 true life drama that was featured in the film Touching The Void talks about his adventures at the Pavilion Theatre at 7.30pm. Tickets £13, concessions £1 off. Ring 01745 330000 or visit www.rhylpavilion.co.uk.

RUNCORN: February 3-7 - Centenary Theatre Company presents No Sex Please We’re British, classic 70s comedy which originally starred Michael Crawford and was turned into a film starring Ronnie Corbett, at The Brindley, High Street, at 7.30pm. Tickets £12, £10 concessions. Ring 0151 907 8360or visit www.thebrindley.org.uk

SALFORD: February 8 - Count Arthur Strong presents The Man Behind The Smile at The Lowry, Salford Quays, at 8pm. Tickets £14. Ring 0870 787 5788 or visit www.thelowry.com.

SALFORD: February 8-9 - Loci Productions presents Mind The Gap, a thought-provoking piece set on a broken down tube train at night, at The Lowry, Salford Quays, at 7.45pm. Tickets £10-£5. Ring 0870 787 5788 or visit www.thelowry.com.

SALFORD: February 10-11 - DX Productions present Bare Bones 6 - six dancers perform the work of three internationally renowned choreographers at The Lowry, Salford Quays, at 8pm. Tickets £12. Ring 0870 787 5788 or visit www.thelowry.com.

SALFORD: February 12-13 - Mediamedea present The Game of Two Halves, an award-winning comedy following happy couple Pete and Simon to the footy, where they must keep their relationship secret from Pete’s homophobic workmate, at The Lowry, Salford Quays, at 7.45pm. Tickets £10-£5. Ring 0870 787 5788 or visit www.thelowry.com.

SALFORD: February 13 - Comedian Justin Moorhouse’s Ever Decreasing Social Circle at The Lowry, Salford Quays, at 8pm. Tickets £15. Ring 0870 787 5788 or visit www.thelowry.com.

WARRINGTON: February 7 - The Comedy Store at the Pyramid in Palmyra Square at 7.30pm. Tickets £12, £10. Ring 01925 442345 or visit www.pyramidparrhall.com.

WARRINGTON: February 13 - Comedian Russell Kane at the Parr Hall in Palmyra Square at 8pm. Tickets are priced £12/£10. Ring 01925 442345 for details.

WIRRAL: February 6-7 - Alison Clayton Dance School at the Gladstone Theatre at 7.30pm. Ring 0151 643 8757.

WIRRAL: February 11-14 - Birkenhead Scouts present Gang Show 2009 at the Gladstone Theatre at 7.30pm. Tickets £8, concessions £6. Ring 0151 652 3737.