I Dreamed a Dream—the musical based on X Factor winner Susan Boyle's life story—arrives at Liverpool Empire on Tuesday for just 5 days. Susan herself will join the cast onstage for the show's finale. Details: www.atgtickets.com/liverpool
Sherlock Holmes's most famous adventure has an added dimension—thanks to a Lancaster company—when it is performed at the city's Dukes Theatre this week.
The appropriately-titled firm—imitating the dog—has collaborated with Oldham Coliseum and fused different theatrical elements to create the dark and sinister world of The Hound of the Baskervilles.
Details: www.dukes-lancaster.org
A Cumbrian actress returns to her roots when she stars in a new play at the Brewery Arts Centre in Kendal on Wednesday.
Carlisle-born Francesca Waite will be taking to the stage with a new production of Once in a House on Fire, a gritty adaptation of the award-winning memoir by Andrea Ashworth.
Details: www.breweryarts.co.uk
A talented troupe of young people from the Brewery Youth Arts programme will be bringing Shakespeare's bloodiest play to the stage.
The Brewery Young Actors Company will perform a futuristic production of Macbeth in the Malt Room on Thursday.
Details: www.breweryarts.co.uk
Blackpool North Pier Theatre stages three performances of ShangHi from the award-winning Cirque du Ciel; direct from China, on Friday and Saturday.
Details: www.northpierblackpool.co.uk
The Olivier award-winning Actors Touring Company takes a fresh look at a landmark of modern international theatre when it presents a rare revival of Sarah Kane's Crave in The Studio at the Royal Exchange Theatre from Wednesday to Saturday.
Details: www.royalexchange.co.uk/bookonline.
Helen O'Brien's debut one-woman show Bronagh's Big Weekend draws on her experiences of growing up in Oldham in an Irish family.
It's at The Lowry in Salford on Friday.
Details: www.thelowry.com
Celebrating their 20th anniversary this year, regular visitors to The Lowry Northern Broadsides return with a new production of Love's Labour's Lost.
It runs from Tuesday to Saturday.
Details: www.thelowry.com
Award-winning theatre company Organised Chaos Productions bring their latest play Bottled Wasps, a new piece of writing from the award winning Paul Buie, to the Joshua Brooks pub in Manchester from Wednesday to Saturday.
Details: www.organisedchaosproductions.co.uk
Vincent Simone and Flavia Cacace, two of the performers from TV's Strictly Come Dancing, head for Manchester's Opera House with Midnight Tango.
The show runs from Tuesday to Saturday.
Details: www.atgtickets/manchester
On Friday at Zion Arts Centre, Word of Warning, Manchester's new live performance programme, continues its Sampler Series, offering audiences a bumper package of intriguing new performance with Legs 11 and Getinthebackofthevan.
Details: www.wordofwarning.org
Henry V is at the Liverpool Playhouse until April 28 prior to a five-week tour before it returns to co-producers Shakespeare's Globe from June 7 to August 26.
Details: www.everymanplayhouse.com
The music of some of the biggest artists from the 1950s and 1960s will come to life in Unforgettable at St Helens Theatre Royal on Saturday.
Details: www.unforgettableshow.com
Young Everyman Playhouse closes its season with a production of Bryony Lavery's Illyria in the Playhouse Studio from April 17 to 21.
Details: www.everymanplayhouse.com
Vamos Theatre, in association with The Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham presents its new touring production Much Ado About Wenlock, a show about health, sports, a reforming doctor, and a runaway chicken, at Liverpool's Unity Theatre next Tuesday and Wednesday. The following day there's physical theatre from Rhum and Clay.
Details: www.unitytheatreliverpool.co.uk
Christopher Timothy stars in Diary of Anne Frank at the Grand Theatre in Blackpool this week.
Details: www.blackpoolgrand.co.uk