Current & Future Projects
We are sorry to inform you that due to the Corona Virus, various dates have been postponed. Please see below for full details. If you are not able to attend the rearranged dates, please contact the theatre for a refund. Sir Michael sends his apologies, but unfortunately this is out of his control. He wishes you all well and Sir Michael and Mike Parkinson hope to see you all at the rearranged dates.
Yorkshire Tea
At Yorkshire tea, they’ve always done things proper. So when a vacancy appeared for new staff, they always try to find the very best talent – from the people who source their tea to their very experienced new Head of Interviews.
Come and join us for An Evening With Sir Michael Parkinson
We celebrate the life and career of a man who in over 50 years in the business, has interviewed over 2000 of the most important cultural figures of the 20th and 21st centuries and won awards for journalism, radio and television broadcasting.
In conversation with his son Mike and showing highlights from the Parkinson archive, An Evening with Sir Michael Parkinson is a unique opportunity to get an intimate, entertaining and informative look at his remarkable journey from a pit village in Yorkshire to the top of those famous stairs whilst reliving the best moments from a show that for many defined their Saturday night.
Date: Warrington Parr Hall. Remains Thursday 14th May. 19:30
Venue: Warrington Parr Hall
Address:
Contact: 01925 442 345
Tickets: https://bit.ly/3a3oDUT
Date: Albert Halls. Remains Friday 15th May. 19:30
Venue: Albert Halls, Bolton
Address:
Contact: 01204 333 888
Tickets: https://bit.ly/2HWa6OU
Date: National Theatre. Postponed until Sunday 26th July. 19:30
Venue: National Theatre, London
Address: Upper Ground, South Bank, SE1 9PX
Contact: 020 7452 3000
Tickets: https://bit.ly/2uzsvxI
Date: Darlington Hippodrome. Postponed until Wednesday 16th September. 19:30
Venue: Darlington Hippodrome
Address:
Contact: 01325 405 405
Tickets: https://bit.ly/2HX2AmV
Date: Waterfront Hall. Postponed until Sunday 20th September. 19:30
Venue: Waterfront Hall, Belfast
Address:
Contact: 028 9033 4400
Tickets: https://bit.ly/2w64Ntk
Date: Yarm School. Remains Sunday 4th October. 19:30
Venue: Yarm School, Yarm
Address:
Contact: 01642 786 023
Tickets: admin@yarmschool.org
Date: Opera House. Remains Tuesday 13th October. 19:30
Venue: Buxton Opera House
Address:
Contact: 01298 72190
Tickets: Released shortly
Date: Kendal. Remains Sunday 18th October. 19:30
Venue: Kendal Leisure Centre
Address:
Contact: 01539 729 777
Tickets: Released shortly
Date: Harrogate Theatre. Remains Monday 19th October. 19:30
Venue: Harrogate Theatre
Address:
Contact: 01423 502 116
Tickets: Released shortly
Date: Millennium Centre. Postponed until Sunday 25th October. 19:30
Venue: Wales Millennium Centre
Address:
Contact: 029 2063 6464
Tickets: https://bit.ly/381XArE
Date: Corn Exchange. Remains Wednesday 28th October. 19:30
Venue: Exeter Corn Exchange
Address:
Contact: 01392 665 866
Tickets: Released shortly
Date: Grand Theatre. Remains Monday 2nd November. 19:30
Venue: Lancaster Grand Theatre
Address:
Contact: 01524 64695
Tickets: Released shortly
George Best: A Memoir
Book released by Hodder & Stoughton @HodderBooks November 2016
George Best: A Memoir
Michael Parkinson and George Best faced one another countless times in interviews. Their conversations were mutually respectful, even intimate, yet always brimming with searching questions and revealing answers.
The great Manchester United and Northern Ireland attacker – one of the few sports personalities to merit the term ‘iconic’ – was almost always candid, lucid and self-effacing. Alcoholism had him in its grip from an early age, affecting the love affairs that fed the tabloid headlines, but there was far more to Best than booze and birds.
In George Best: A Memoir, Michael Parkinson draws upon decades of award-winning journalistic experience to re-evaluate a remarkable footballer and a damaged friend. The book weaves together recollections of when the ‘the fifth Beatle’ ensured it was Manchester, not London or Liverpool, which made the Sixties swing; of Best enjoying a carefree kickabout with the Parkinsons’ children in the family garden; and selected transcripts from their endlessly fascinating interviews.
‘Where did it all go wrong?’ is the punchline to a famous Best story. George Best: A Memoir provides Michael Parkinson’s considered response to the question while bringing fresh insight into the footballing genius that made Best one of the immortals and the self-destructive side of his character.
This is a unique eyewitness account of what many regard as the best Parkinson interviews ever.