From bestselling children’s author and comedian David Walliams comes First Hippo On The Moon at Preston Charter Theatre next Tuesday.
After a nine-month run on Broadway as lead role Elphaba in hit musical Wicked, stage star Rachel Tucker is on an 11-date solo tour throughout the UK bringing her to Lancaster Grand on Tuesday.
Sadler’s Wells’ critically acclaimed international festival of hip hop dance theatre Breakin’ Convention returns to Blackpool Grand Theatre on Saturday.
Children’s puppet favourite Sooty is back in a brand-new show for the whole family that comes to Blackpool Grand for two daytime performances on Sunday.
Comedy writer Ray Cooney celebrates his 85th birthday and 70 years in showbiz this year, and to mark the milestones he has worked on a brand new season of his classic comedies—including an updated production of his Olivier Award-winning Westminster comedy Out of Order which comes to Manchester Opera House next week.
Out Of This World is action packed theatre, set in the mind of a woman in a medically induced coma, at The Lowry in Salford next Tuesday and Wednesday.
Alan Harris’s How My Light is Spent is at Theatre by the Lake in Keswick next week in a co-production with the Royal Exchange and the Sherman Theatre in Cardiff.
Plus-size heroine Holiday Snow stars in a reworked Goddess at Manchester’s new arts venue 53two from May 30 to June 3.
Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story is back in Manchester with a run at the Palace Theatre from May 30 to June 3.
In Your Face Theatre's 21st anniversary revival of Trainspotting, based on Irvine Welsh's novel, will be at The Dukes in Lancaster on June 3 and 4.
Milkshake! Live, The Magic Storybook, the fourth nationwide live tour from Channel 5’s Milkshake!, will be at Liverpool's Epstein Theatre on June 2.
Dance company Joli Vyann—ex-stuntman Jan Patzke and ex-gymnast Olivia Quayle—which uses hand-to-hand acrobatics and dance to explore contemporary issues, will perform Imbalance, created with choreographer Jonathan Lunn, at The Lowry on June 2.
A concert version of a new musical based on '70s sitcom The Liver Birds by Carla Lane, narrated by Sue Jenkins and featuring a West End cast, will be at Liverpool's Epstein Theatre on May 30.
Avoidance, a new play by local playwright Mike Heath, will be at Kings Arms Theatre in Salford from May 31 to June 3.