Multi-award-winning theatre company Horse + Bamboo bring their latest show for ages four and up to The Continental in Preston next Thursday afternoon.
The Nightingale sees the age-old story from Hans Christian Andersen told through a blend of masks, puppetry, animation, performance and original music.
Northern Broadsides theatre company returns to The Dukes next week with a play directed by Jonathan Miller, his first in six years, and featuring a former Coronation Street favourite.
Rutherford & Son, a stark portrayal of an industrial family on the brink of collapse, also sees Northern Broadsides artistic director Barrie Rutter take the lead role of industrialist and tyrannical patriarch, John Rutherford, in a cast that also includes Wendi Peters, best known for her role as Cilla Battersby Brown in Coronation Street.
The Owl Who's Afraid of the Dark flies in to Morecambe the Platform next Friday.
The classic children’s story by Jill Tomlinson centres on Plop, the baby barn owl as he journeys into the night-time world of camp fires, fireworks, starry nights and moonlit adventures.
Performed within a multi-screen film installation, with a soundscape of birdsong, electronic music and a new score for string quartet, Above Me The Wide Blue Sky draws together stories of love, loss and belonging from an ever-changing world at Lancaster University’s Nuffield Theatre.
Catch it all next Friday and Saturday with an installation that is open from 7pm before and after the performance.
Box office: 01524 594151 or www.liveatlica.org
Bertolt Brecht’s Mother Courage and Her Children opens the 2013 season of productions from Manchester’s Library Theatre Company at The Lowry in Salford next Friday in a version translated by Tony Kushner, the Academy Award nominated writer of cinema hit Lincoln.
The Octagon Theatre in Bolton this week stages a timely world première production that presents the remarkable and inspiring life story of Walter Tull: the first black outfield footballer to play in the old First Division.
Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre kicks off its new season with a stage version of Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel To Kill A Mockingbird from Wednesday to March 30.
New Attitude Theatre Company presents a new writing double bill: Do Me A Favour by Trevor Suthers and Fly By Night by Jayne Marshall, both at the Kings Arms in Salford.
They run from February 18 to 22.