Today’s the day! 👠✨🎤🎵
Kinky Boots opens TONIGHT at Storyhouse today - and over 7000 (!) of you are joining the party 🎉
We can’t wait to get started…
don’t miss out on the very last few tickets:
@DuaneLamonte85
💃🏿
@el_marshaq
@P_Bong2018
@SarahGPerry
The Hobbits, Toad, Mr Tumnus and Winnie the Pooh prefer for their homes not to be capitalised, we asked them. Alice and the bears were for capitalisation. Harry Potter never got back to us.
First up: the critically-acclaimed The Florida Project!
The indie hit of the year brings an incredible breakout performance from 6-year-old Brooklynn Prince.
"It's a moving, emotional masterpiece" ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ - Empire.
To everyone coming to The Rocky Horror Show tonight and this week at Storyhouse:
Storyhouse is and always will be a safe space. We celebrate and support LGBTQ+ communities - always. Let's have a FABULOUS night & week. 💋👠🏳️🌈
To those who are protesting:
#LETSDOTHETIMEWARPAGAIN
WE DID IT!
Storyhouse is UK’s most welcoming theatre!!!!!!
A HUGE thank you all of our team, volunteers, and members of our community for making Storyhouse a (welcoming) home.
#ThisHouseIsYourHouse
Yesterday, we wanted our special visitors to experience a typical day at Storyhouse. 👑
Here's what that looked like...
Thank you to the community groups, schools and volunteers who are part of Storyhouse every day and week, and who made this possible.
#ThisHouseIsYourHouse
Benjamin Zephaniah - Storyhouse poet in residence.
❤️
We are deeply, deeply saddened by the news of Benjamin Zephaniah's death, our cherished poet in residence and our friend.
(1/?)
GOOD NEWS: Moonlight Drive
#toiletgate
update! 🚽
Moonlight Drive will go ahead at
@ChesterFC
! 🎉 We have hired portaloos, and will fit all cars into English side.
There will be a few changes, and a small number of bookings are affected - we have emailed *all* ticket-holders.
Guess what? It's our second birthday! 🎈2️⃣
#ThisHouseIsYourHouse
Thank you to all of you who have visited, supported, performed, sung, dance, read, written, created, discussed, watched, worked, and been part of the first two years of Storyhouse!
We're delighted to announce that the inimitable
@Nigella_Lawson
will be part of this autumn's Literature Festival.
Tickets for An Evening with Nigella Lawson will go on sale on Friday.
#ChesterLitFest
Oscar-nominated for Best Animated Feature, Pablo Berger's delightfully funny wordless wonder
#RobotDreams
follows the heart-swelling tale of Dog and Robot in 1980's NYC. 🐶🤖💕
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (
@RadioTimes
).
📅 This Friday at Storyhouse Cinema.
🎫 Book now!
🎉 Announcing our new CEO:
@annabelturpin
💬 "I can't wait to make Chester my home, & join the fantastic team. It's already established as a key local institution, & I'm excited to work with local partners and communities to build on its success."
We are absolutely DELIGHTED to be in the top three finalists in the whole of the country for UK's Most Welcoming Theatre! 🎉
A huge, huge congratulations to our fellow finalists, the brilliant
@NewVicTheatre
and
@youngvictheatre
!
👏👏🏿👏🏼
We’re looking for actors! 🎭✨
This open call is for us to become more aware of local actors and to diversify our work. 💃🏾🎤
We want to represent society & bring together a variety of skills & experiences. 🌟
Find out more:
Today is Storyhouse’s 3rd Birthday! 🎈🎈🎈
Thank you to the whole Storyhouse family - team, volunteers, readers, performers, audiences, creatives, & whole community for making Storyhouse a home.
Here’s a little bit of what Storyhouse means (Part 1, Part 2 coming later today!)
💙🍿 You're invited to a reunion you and your friends will never forget! ✨ Watch the world come alive with
#GreatestDaysMovie
—the official
@TakeThat
musical written by Tim Firth (Calendar Girls).
📅 From Friday 16 June at
#StoryhouseCinema
.
🎟️ Book now:
We are READY for you!
The team have been building your theatre in the park at a record-setting pace!
Grosvenor Park Open Air Theatre opens THIS SATURDAY, and the forecast is ☀️☀️☀️.
🎟️ Tickets here:
🚨 BIG NEWS! 🚨
Grosvenor Park Open Air Theatre roars back into life this August! 🎉🎉🎉
One joyous show, 8 eager actors, and a whole load of socially-distanced tickets!
#TheParkIsBack
Find out more:
Priority Booking open now, general sale Monday! 🎟️
🍿✨When we reopen this Sat 4 July we’ll have TWO amazing cinema screens - our theatre has been fitted with a new digital projection system! We have reduced capacity, seats are socially distanced and both spaces will be cleaned before and after every screening. ✨🎬
#chester
BANK HOLIDAY COMPETITION!
WIN 4 x tickets to Little Shop of Horrors, plus a glass of fizz/beer/soft drink each, official programme each and ice cream at the interval.
🎟️🥂🍦
To enter, like and share this post and tag who you'd bring if you won...
🌱🥀🎤
#FEEDME
Along with our fellow theatres in the North West, the West End and Broadway, we lit Storyhouse blue at 7pm as a mark of respect for Bill Kenwright CBE. 🔵✨
@BKL_Productions
We're delighted to announce that Storyhouse will be the North West venue for this year's
@BBC
Children in Need!
@BBCCiN
will broadcast live from the building, with a performance from local schoolchildren.
Find out more here:
Did you just hear the news on
@BBCRadio2
?!
Christmas is NOT cancelled! 🎄⭐🎉🎉🎉
This Christmas at Storyhouse: A Christmas Carol.
7 November 2020 - 17 January 2021
A
#StoryhouseOriginals
production.
ANNOUNCING Moonlight Drive - Chester's first Drive-In Cinema is here! 🌙✨🚗🎬
When? Starting THIS Weds 8 July
Where? Linenhall Car Park
@ChesterRaces
How? Brand-new 30ft screen, FM radio broadcast, contactless pizza deliveries to your car.
On sale NOW:
Our doors are open!
For now, it’s takeaway coffee, taking out books and returning books, and essential PC use. ☕️📚✨
We’re looking forward to reopening the theatre, cinema and full library from 17 May. 📆
See you soon, and thank you for your support.
#ThisHouseIsYourHouse
YOU DID IT! We're through to the final of
@BBCNWT
People's Choice Building of the Decade! Tune in to BBC North West on Thursday at 6.30pm to see a broadcast from Storyhouse. THANK YOU!
#ThisHouseIsYourHouse
Stage transformation!
After the last show of the touring season (Joseph 🌈) , our wonderful technical team commenced transforming the proscenium touring stage into the thrust stage for Little Shop of Horrors 🥀, which they can now do in 3 days!
Here's what that looks like...
A year ago today, we opened Storyhouse with a message:
This House Is Your House.
Over the past twelve months, you have really, truly made it so.
THANK YOU FOR THE FIRST YEAR.
#NowWeAreOne
#HappyBirthdayStoryhouse
If you are feeling stressed, upset or anxious this morning, head to Storyhouse. Have a coffee or a tea, open a book, read the words on the walls, chat to someone.
This is the place that can heal and hold you safe.
Stranger, welcome home.
Bring cinema to your home. 🍿🎬
Storyhouse has partnered with online film platform
@mubi
to give you all 90 days free to enjoy great films at home.
#ThisHouseIsYourHouse
Today we have some (royal) company...
To watch what’s going on, keep an eye here and on
@StoryhouseLive
Instagram for photos and updates.
Business as usual resumes at 6pm.
Let’s do this. 👑
It's
#LibrariesWeek
!
Did you know that we have the longest opening hours of any library in the UK? And over 150 different community groups, from Digital Buddies to Korean Language to Grief Support to Rhymetime & more.
Here's a little bit more about us:
#LibrariesWeek2019
Her Majesty The Queen and The Duchess of Sussex are given a posy each by Nye Egan-Simon (Oldfield Primary School) and Lilja Fagan (Newton Primary School).
#RoyalVisitCheshire
#ThisHouseIsYourHouse
We are so excited and proud that
@cwaclibraries
won Overall Winner and Transformation Award at the
@guardian
Public Service Awards.
Storyhouse wouldn't be a library without you all - thank YOU.
#ThisHouseIsYourHouse
Read all about it 🗞️🗞️:
A lot of you will have seen George around - he’s a very regular visitor to Storyhouse. Yesterday was his birthday, so today the Kitchen team surprised him when he came in. Happy Birthday George!
🎂
We're so excited to reopen our doors for you at 8am on Saturday!
• 2 cinemas (one in the theatre!)🍿
• The library 📚
• The Kitchen for drinks, hot drinks, filled pittas ☕
#ThisHouseIsYourHouse
...with social distancing & extra safety measures.
Her Majesty The Queen unveils a plaque commemorating her visit, watched by 300 schoolchildren who performed a song for her and The Duchess of Sussex.
#RoyalVisitCheshire
#ThisHouseIsYourHouse
We’re devastated to hear the latest news and what it means for Cheshire.
We’re just getting our heads around it and will be in touch with all ticket-holders tomorrow - thanks for bearing with us.
#ThisHouseIsYourHouse
Storyhouse's biggest EVER summer season! 🎉
This summer, we're going all in - over 200 outdoor events: theatre 🎭 film 📽️& more 🎵 from May to Sept to bring us all together again.
With your support, we can Save Storyhouse and save the summer! 🌞✨
We’re
#proud
to welcome
@CheshireFire
to Storyhouse today for their
#ProudToProvide
conference with
@stonewalluk
aimed at helping public service orgs with the diverse needs of the LGBT community.
🏳️🌈👩🏼🚒👩🏿🚒👨🏽🚒👨🏿🚒👨🏻🚒👩🏽🚒
So, all five shows for
#Summer2018
will be:
On the Storyhouse stage: 🎭
• A Little Night Music
• The Crucible
• Swallows and Amazons
At Grosvenor Park Open Air Theatre: 🎪
• Much Ado About Nothing
• The Tempest
• Swallows and Amazons
SEE YOU THERE!
Today we are blue to give thanks to the people and organisations of the NHS for all they have done during this crisis, and in remembrance of the lives lost. 💙
#NHSBirthday
@NHSNW
@NHSuk
#ProtectTheNHS
@cornistcraig
@ShitChester
Our words here *are* right. This tweet declares that we celebrate, support & welcome LGBTQ+ communities and are a safe space for them, and it is incredibly important to declare this in a time when homophobic and transphobic hate crimes have more than doubled since 2014.
Grosvenor Park Open Air Theatre opens in just 6 weeks... and we're excited to announce the cast! 🎪
They're busy rehearsing on Zoom but will soon be arriving in Chester ready to take over the park. 🌳🎭
Find out more:
Today we are 5 years old! 🎈
🏠 You've filled this building - connected, celebrated, created together. THANK YOU
✨ We're committed to being an open space to tell your stories, bring people together for good times, & create a sustainable future
As always
#ThisHouseIsYourHouse
It's that time again, Moonlight Flicks fans...🍿🎬🥂
We're trying to decide what films to show under the stars this summer. GIVE US YOUR SUGGESTIONS!
Retro classics, new blockbusters, family faves.
(Please don't say The Greatest Showman. Our team can't watch it again).
Tonight Storyhouse is red as we stand in solidarity with the
#WeMakeEvents
movement; with fellow venues, organisations and the entire live events industry; theatre-makers, event-creators, story-tellers, freelancers, artists & more.
#LightItInRed
🔴✊🏻✊🏾✊🏿
🙌 We've done it 🙌
Chester is officially the WORLD'S FIRST Sustainable Palm Oil City!
Restaurants, schools, manufacturers and businesses across the city have committed to only using palm oil from entirely sustainable sources 🌏❤️️
Here's why it's important...