Can't Stand Up For Falling Down by Richard Cameron, is at Studio Salford from Wednesday to Saturday. Details: www.studiosalford.com
Wild Flowers, set during the Liverpool Dockers' Strike in 1995, tells of two brothers who find themselves on different paths; James, a docker, and Peter, a parish priest. It's at Unity theatre Liverpool Thursday and Friday.
Details: www.unitytheatreliverpool.co.uk
Writer and raconteur Gervase Phinn, returns to Preston Charter Theatre on Thursday night.
Dubbed ‘the James Herriot of Schools', his reminiscences about the life of a schools inspector in Yorkshire have featured heavily on Radio 4's Book Of The Week and Book At Bedtime slots.
Details: www.prestonguildhall.com
A second chance to see young people present their response to a visit to Auschwitz takes place in Lancaster next Wednesday.
Frei, premiered at Lancaster's Holocaust Memorial Day event in January, will be performed again at DT3, The Dukes Theatre youth specific venue in Moor Lane.
Details: www.dukes-lancaster.org
Celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee with an evocation of wartime entertainment when We'll Meet Again comes to the Platform in Morecambe next Friday afternoon.
Details: www.lancaster.gov.uk
A professional contemporary dance company will be sharing the stage with local dancers when they perform at The Dukes in Lancaster next Thursday.
It is Retina's most ambitious work to date and every show is specific to its venue as different dancers from the local community join the company's dancers.
Details: www.dukes-lancaster.org
One of the UK's most innovative ballet dance companies will be bringing its unique adaptation of two classic fairy tales to the Brewery in Kendal this week.
On Thursday Ballet Cymru will be performing the versions of Little Red Hiding Hood and the Three Little Pigs which appeared in Roald Dahl's popular children's classic Revolting Rhymes.
Details: www.breweryarts.co.uk
Alan Bennett's play about his one-time unusual neighbour, The Lady in the Van, is at the Grand Theatre in Blackpool from Tuesday.
This production stars Olivier Award winner Nichola McAuliffe.
Details: www.blackpoolgrand.co.uk
Award-winning theatre production company Organised Chaos Productions debut AfterWords, a new piece of writing from the award-winning Michael Hart, at the Joshua Brooks pub in Manchester from Wednesday to Saturday.
It charts the journey of Julie, a recent arrival in the afterlife, as she attempts to be reacquainted with her husband Derek who passed away many years before.
Details: www.organisedchaosproductions.co.uk
A major revival of Oscar Wilde's classic Lady Windermere's Fan opens at Manchester's Royal Exchange Theatre on Wednesday.
Wilde's first play, which bristles with some of his funniest one-liners, made him an overnight success when first produced in London in 1892.
The production runs until June 23.
Details: www.royalexchange.co.uk
Following on from their hit trilogy of soldiers' stories, including the award-winning God Wept And The Devil Laughed, Come As You Arts Northwest returns to the Lowry in Salford with the world premiere of a first play in a new series about ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances.
Set in 1989, How I Helped End Communism tells the true story of how a group of young people, including the play's writer and director Justin McGregor, went to teach free speech behind the Iron Curtain—and accidentally helped bring it down.
Details: www.thelowry.com
Never mind there's no Glastonbury this year, because 16 acts, including artists who have played Glasto and other major festivals, will take part in this year's Cultural Collage World Music Festival which runs to May 20 in Manchester.
Details: www.culturalcollagefestival.org.
Following their critically-acclaimed international tour, award-winning UK dance company DV8 come to The Lowry in Salford next Friday and Saturday with their brand new piece Can We Talk About This? which examines freedom of speech, multiculturalism and Islam.
Details: www.thelowry.com
Alan Plater's play Close the Coalhouse Door, at the Lowry in Salford is a memorial production following the writer's death in 2010.
It's based on the stories of Sid Chaplin with songs by Alex Glasgow, and is a musical play written and first performed in Newcastle in 1968, charting all the major strikes, victories and disappointments in British mining history from the formation of the first unions in 1831.
Details: www.thelowry.com
Critically acclaimed Theatre Ad Infinitum bring Translunar Paradise to The Dukes in Lancaster on Saturday following a groundbreaking season which began with a sell-out premiere at last year's Edinburgh Fringe.
Details: www.dukes-lancaster.org
Jim Cartwright's critically acclaimed play Two is at St Helen's Theatre Royal from Friday to Sunday.
Details: www.sthelenstheatreroyal.com
Action Transport Theatre presents The Honey Man, a tale of an unlikely friendship, at Whitby Hall Studio Theatre in Ellesmere Port's Whitby Park on Thursday. It's Suitable for age 14+
Details: www.actiontransporttheatre.org