Pudsey the bear is only one of several familiar faces from TV in Jack And The Beanstalk at Preston Charter Theatre.
Pudsey’s role has been written into the panto by writer/director Ted Robbins (The Guv’nor from CBBCs The Slammer, Phoenix Nights and BBC Radio Lancashire). Ted also stars in the show once again, this time as Dame Trott.
The first-ever UK tour of Disney’s landmark musical The Lion King lays siege to Manchester for nearly five months.
Four years in development, the show is the biggest stage production ever to tour in the UK and now runs at the city’s Palace Theatre to April 20.
Acclaimed theatre company Metta Theatre brings its latest production Arab Nights—billed as an Arabian Nights for a modern age—to The Studio at Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre from Thursday to Saturday.
The Railway Children steams into Keswick’s Theatre by the Lake for a seven-week run of a stage adaptation of one of the most popular children’s books of all time.
The Liverpool Actors Studio Theatre stages The Gingerbread Man December 4-5. This seasonal retelling of the children’s classic story brings song, dance and a moral or two to the venue.
The seasonal offering at Stockport Plaza is Aladdin from December 7 until Sunday January 6.
Craig Perry who has appeared in the title roles for last two years returns alongside Stockport’s very own Paul Arden-Griffith.