Thursday 3rd, Friday 4th & Saturday 5th April 

A rite of passage drama about broken promises, squandered opportunities, innocence versus experience:  the love-hate continuum that exists between a father and daughter – where the Past-Present-Future exist in the same time and place.

Teenage Rayla single-handedly props up her emotionally abusive, addicted, highly intelligent father.  On one life-changing day, her world undergoes a seismic shift under the influence of an unexpected apparition – her older self, Ray – where the father and daughter(s) fight for control of his inability to change.

What follows is a charged, brutally honest battle of wits about Hope vs Despair – where the child becomes an adult, and the adult a child.

Theatre - Drama/New Writing 

Friday 25th & Saturday 26th April 

Following their sold-out performance of ‘Sinderella’ in Summer 2023, Take-A-Bow North West are returning to Salford Arts with the Wardrobe Ensemble’s Education, Education, Education.

“It's May 1997. Tony Blair has won the election and Katrina and the Waves have won Eurovision. Channel 5 is a month old. No one knows who Harry Potter is. Britain is the coolest place in the world.

At the local secondary school it's a different story. Miss Belltop-Doyle can't control her Year 10s, Mr Pashley has been put in charge of a confiscated Tamagotchi, and Miss Turner is hoping that this muck-up day goes smoother than the last. Tobias, the German language assistant, watches on. Things can only get better.

Inventively theatrical and irreverently funny, Education, Education, Education is The Wardrobe Ensemble's love letter to the schools of the 1990s and asks big questions about a country in special measures, exploring what we are taught and why, and where responsibility lies.”

Theatre  - Amatuer

Sunday 27th April 2pm 

Jenny Jordon O'Neill brings a little bit of vintage to an April Sunday 

Live music and entertainment in a warm, friendly environment 

The second Social Sundays part of our Fourth Wall Bar Sessions 

We have a host of fabulous performers coming up part of our Social Sundays giving you some to look forward to

Bar Event - Music 

Sunday 25th May 2pm 

Live music and entertainment in a warm, friendly environment 

The second Social Sundays part of our Fourth Wall Bar Sessions 

We have a host of fabulous performers coming up part of our Social Sundays giving you some to look forward to

Bar Event - Music 

Thursday 29th May 8pm 

More Details Coming Soon 

Theatre Music  - Folk and Poetry 

Sunday 29th June 2pm 

June is all about The Dove and the Dragon, singer songwriter from Salford 

Live music and entertainment in a warm, friendly environment 

The second Social Sundays part of our Fourth Wall Bar Sessions 

We have a host of fabulous performers coming up part of our Social Sundays giving you some to look forward to

Bar Event - Music 

2nd July  - 26th July 

This year we will be hosting many varied plays.  

Something for everyone.

Monday 7th July & Tuesday 8th July 7.30pm 

Performed by ​Salford Arts Theatre's Young Actors Company 

Wouldn’t it be great if life came with an instruction manual? Some guiding principles. Like the Monopoly rulebook. Sometimes you need a wikihow on living life right.

‘I don't wanna play anymore’ tries to answer the questions we ask ourselves as we get older.

What should I be doing, who should I be doing it with and when should it all be done by????

Life is a game, but how do we play it? In a world where there are winners and losers, playing fair doesn’t always see you right. A roll of a dice can change everything.

Theatre New Writing - Part of GM Fringe 

Saturday 12th July  & Sunday 13th July 7.30pm 

Produced By Salford Arts Theatre in association with To ​The Left Productions

Brought together by their father’s death, sisters Bea and Eleanor reunite at their childhood home for the first time in four years. 

As they sort through their parent's belongings they relive childhood memories, uncover truths and try to reconnect despite their broken up bringing.

Supporting in conjunction with The Shelagh Delaney New Writing Award 

Theatre New Writing  -  Part of GM Fringe 

Thursday 17th July 7.30pm 

A **** comedy show about being British -ish

Award winning Becky Fury uses her identity as a mixed race UK born person to investigate what it means to be British - ish. British-ish is a fast paced hour which makes a serious and seriously silly effort to redefine Britishness, British historical figures and what makes Britain great.

Colonialism is also discussed as Becky’s family is Anglo Indian, a mixed race culture bred by the British to run the Raj. The British-ish of the title.

Many of the shows funniest moments come from Becky’s honest insight and story telling skills; discussing her experiences dealing with casual and not so casual rascism. This serious subject is dealt with Becky’s trademark mischievous humour and is a perceptive hot take on what is often a decisive and very current social issue.

If you can feel proud, for example, that the three lions were originally from Africa and have been clearly made to feel so at home here, then this is the show for you.

If you can feel proud, for example, that the three lions were originally from Africa, then this is the show for you ****

Theatre Comedy  - Part of GM Fringe

Friday 18th July 7.30pm 

Performed in our theatre bar  - The Fourth Wall Bar 

Following from the original (***** Lancaster Guardian), the search continues for the one quantifiable measurement capable of conquering our anxieties and convincing the world we are enough. Will Dean succeed, or will there always be a sequel?

Bar Event Performance Poetry - Part of GM Fringe

Saturday 19th July & Sunday 20th July 7.30pm 

Produced By Salford Arts Theatre in association with To ​The Left Productions

Boys We Knew follows three best friends, Liam, CJ and Jasper, who spend their time between their B-Tech music college and house parties.

The boys originally seem to maintain a toxic dynamic in their misogynistic attitudes and dispassion for progress.There is a breaking in the group dynamic as Liam attempts to free himself from a future consumed by drugs and repressive behaviour, finding hope in a friendship with a bright girl named Angelica. 

However, Liam finds difficulty in distancing from the cultural norms of the white, working class.

Supported through The Shelagh Delaney New Writing Award 

Theatre New Writing - Part of GM Fringe

Tuesday 22nd July & Wednesday 23rd July 7.30pm 

Opposites don’t always attract!

When a rather serious and logically minded ‘Pye’ is thrown into confinement with a bouncy, bubbly and slightly unhinged ‘Happy’, the pair have little choice but to get to know each other better.

Join these two very different characters as they are forced to confront, not only each other, but perhaps even themselves.

Happy as Pye is abstract in style and invites the viewer to decide what is real and what is not.

This play delves into the minds of two surreal characters that hold very different outlooks on life. Or do they? These characters could just as easily be as one and only by hashing it out can they truly explore what it means, or doesn't mean, to be 'happy'!

Friday 25th July & Saturday 26th July 7pm 

Theatre show exploring the human price of innovation and hubris. It follows the story of Elliott Walton, a young researcher working on an AI project with her colleague Dr Michael Blomquist. 

The pair are working on a technology that would theoretically upload somebody’s entire mind into an AI programme, with Elliott as the test subject. Suddenly, Elliott dies under mysterious circumstances, and Michael is accused of her murder - by the programme itself. 

A dramatic court case ensues that uncovers misconduct, conflict and obsession, with both sides trying to shift the blame.

Is the programme lying? Or is Michael?

Theatre Drama  - Part of GM Fringe

Friday 19th September 7.30pm 

Nick Bold’s George! is a spirited performance that is as close to what it was like to be at an actual George Harrison concert as you could ever imagine.

Manchester’s Nick Bold made his first mark on the music business in the 1980s as founding member, lead guitarist and principal songwriter for the British rock band Virginia Wolf.

The two hour plus performance is a tour de force that brings audiences to their feet with joy as Bold embodies the essence of Harrison with his virtuoso guitar playing and spot-on vocals. It’s all there, George’s biggest Beatles hits and all of his wonderful post-breakup solo material.

Theatre  Music Tribute