‘An Inspector Calls’ comes to the Lowry this January

The award-winning National Theatre production ‘An Inspector Calls’ will be making its way to the Lowry in the new year. 

The adaptation of JB Priestley’s renowned novel will be making its grand return to the stage a part of the UK tour.

The awarding winning show will be directed by Academy-Award nominated Stephen Daldry, and besides Salford the show will also appear in Liverpool, Birmingham, Glasgow and Aberdeen.

The show will take to the Lowry stage from January 7 and will finish its run on January 18, and is set to excite guests, with a star-studded cast and an award winning director leading the way.

Stephen Daldry previously won a Tony Award in 1994 for his work on ‘An Inspector Calls’, awarded for ‘Best Direction of a Play.’

The production has been a major success, winning a total of 19 major awards, including four Tony Awards and three Olivier Awards, and has played to more than five million theatregoers worldwide, since its inception in 1992.

The play follows Inspector Goole, who visits the Birling family home to investigate the murder of a young woman, with his findings changing the lives of the upper-class family.

Among the cast is Tim Treloar, who will play ‘Inspector Goole’, alongside Jackie Morrison as ‘Mrs Birling’. Jeffrey Harmer returns to ‘An Inspector Calls’, reprising his role as ‘Mr Birling.’

Continuing the cast is Tom Chapman as ‘Gerald Croft’, Leona Allen as ‘Sheila Birling’, George Rowlands, who also returns to his role as ‘Eric Birling’ and Alice Darling as ‘Edna’.

Katy Dean, Michael Gukas, Pena Iiyambo, Simon Pothecary and Philip Stewart will make up the rest of the cast.

The play will be produced by PW Productions, known for pricing for some of the world’s best known plays since 1983, including Daldry’s ‘An Inspector Calls’ and Stephen Mallatratt’s The Woman in Black which celebrated 30 years in the West End in 2019.

Salford residents should be excited by the opportunity to watch this acclaimed play, which will be available to see at the Lowry between in the second week of 2025.

You can find out more about the production, and buy tickets here.