Helen O’Grady Drama Academy in South Cheshire is celebrating 20 years of drama with the launch of its new “Show Term” and the performance of a play by Academy Principal Brian Ormrod.
The drama academy, which runs classes in Audlem, Crewe, Haslington, Sandbach, Middlewich, Trentham, Astbury and Northwich, was started in 1998 by Brian.
Tens of thousands of visitors are expected to descend on Nantwich over the Easter weekend for the town’s 22nd Jazz, Blues and Music Festival.
Tickets to see headliners Dr Feelgood and Glenn Tilbrook from Squeeze are fast approaching sell-out and organisers have advised music-lovers to book early to avoid missing out on their favourite performers.
Claire Faulkner
Directed by Kirsty Thew and Tom Morley, Nantwich Players Youth Theatre presents George Orwell’s Animal Farm this week.
Full of corruption, power struggles and political themes, it tells the bleak and sometimes brutal story of how a group of neglected farm animals unite in revolution against man.
Nantwich Museum’s Spring Quiz Night in aid of museum funds will take place at 7pm on Sunday April 15 at Crewe Vagrants Sports Club in Willaston.
The quiz will be overseen by museum volunteer and popular quiz master Wyn Jones and will include a raffle.
Noel Coward’s comedy classic production ‘Private Lives’ is coming to Crewe Lyceum in April for two nights.
London Classic Theatre has announced additional dates for their production currently on an extensive UK tour.
The Studio nightclub in Nantwich will host two consecutive days of fund-raising concerts during the annual Nantwich Jazz, Blues & Music Festival.
The first day of the Festival, Thursday March 29, features 1980s Electronica tribute band ‘Electro 80s’.
Nantwich Camera Club will be hosting another photographic lecture on Tuesday March 27, with a guest speaker from Yorkshire.
It will take place at 7.30pm at the club’s Regents Park base on London Road, Nantwich.
By Claire Faulkner
Curtain Call Youth were back at Crewe Lyceum this week with their production of Bugsy Malone.
The company, which had a cast of more than 50 young actors (and lots of custard pies), was directed and choreographed by Joel Montague and they delivered an outstanding and entertaining show.
Nantwich Concert Band are to stage an open rehearsal night in a bid to attract more members to the group.
The rehearsal night will take place at Brookfield Hall, off Shrewbridge Road in Nantwich, on Wednesday March 21.
Olympic star Bryony Page will be helping the Wingate Centre in Wrenbury near Nantwich celebrate its 30th birthday.
Bryony, the centre’s Vice President and Olympic Silver Medallist in Rio, trained at the centre’s mainstream trampoline classes.
Nantwich Film Club is to screen the big hit movie, Dheepan, on March 12 at the Civic Hall.
Dheepan, winner of the Palme d’Or at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, is a gripping, human tale of survival.
By Jonathan White
A Nantwich studying the link between poetry and dyslexia, is to stage an exhibition at Crewe Lifestyle Centre.
Helen Kay is researching the relationship between poetry and dyslexia/dyspraxia as part of her MA in Creative Writing course at Manchester Metropolitan University.
The Mid Cheshire Hospitals Charity is hosting a “Celebration of Music” concert to raise funds for the ‘Everybody Knows Somebody’ Dementia Appeal.
The South Cheshire Concert Band are inviting people to enjoy an afternoon of music and songs at Nantwich Civic Hall on Sunday March 18.
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