Boomtown Gals is a brand new play touring venues across Oldham until Friday. Local writer and actor Joyce Branagh worked with many of the town’s groups to trace the histories of women, using contemporary copies of the Oldham Chronicle.
From Thursday to Saturday, at The Lowry in Salford, Birmingham Royal Ballet joins the worldwide commemorations of 400 years since the death of William Shakespeare with three differing works, from contemporary to classical.
Following a Royal Court staging, Tim Crouch returns to his provocative masterpiece for a stripped-back, 90-minute production of Adler & Gibb which comes to The Lowry in Salford from Tuesday to Saturday.
There’s an evening of satirical soliloquy, rock 'n' roll reverie and ditty when BBC6 music resident poet Murray Lachlan Young presents his new live up-close and personal show at The Lowry in Salford next Thursday.
Renowned playwright Gordon Steel is taking his humorous and heart-warming play Grow Up Grandad on tour. It’s at the Waterside Arts Centre, Sale Monday and Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal on Wednesday.
Grand Dame Theatre presents a new political comedy, specially commissioned from BBC award-winning playwright Tess Humphrey. Bullingdon Revisited will be performed at the 3 Minute Theatre, Manchester next Thursday to Saturday.
Talking Scarlet presents A Party to Murder at the Grand Theatre Blackpool from Tuesday to Saturday.