George Best’s back, in The Best by Jack Rosenthal at the Lass O’Gowrie, in Manchester next week.
The play has its world première here, as part of Manchester Irish Festival.
It runs from Tuesday to the following Monday.
Details: www.wegottckets.com/location/1313
A coming-of-age story about a natural-born troublemaker, and his relationship with his father comes to Preston’s Continental pub theatre next Tuesday and Wednesday.
The 14th Tale follows Inua Ellam’s real life journey from his birthplace in Nigeria to the culture-shock of England.
A dynamic coming-of-age story with a festival feel is set to take The Dukes by storm on Tuesday.
Wasted is the debut play by performance poet Kate Tempest, who’s also making a name for herself on the UK hip-hop scene with her band Sound of Rum.
There’s a chance next week to see local young people perform a play, commissioned by the National Theatre Connections Festival, in Lancaster.
The Dukes Senior Youth Theatre will present We Lost Elijah at DT3, The Dukes youth specific venue, in Moor Lane from Thursday to Saturday.
Details: www.dukes-lancaster.org
There’s backstage drama at The Dukes in Lancaster next Thursday and Friday.
The venue has joined forces with The Alligator Club, a North West professional playwrights collective, to present twice-nightly performances of Blackout. This walkabout show is set in the hidden spaces of The Dukes such as the wardrobe department and Green Room.
Terrible Tudors and Vile Victorians are on the rampage at the Grand Theatre in Blackpool next week.
Both shows are cleverly adapted from Terry Deary’s best-selling Horrible Histories books.
One of the region’s hottest theatre tickets has to be the ninth season of JB Shorts in the cellar venue beneath Manchester’s Joshua Brooks pub.
Due to demand there will also now be a matinée performance. JB Shorts runs from March 12 to 23.
Jealousy, betrayal and heartbreak—the dark side of love features in a week of opera at The Lowry in Salford.
Opera North returns with four new productions exploring the extremes of passion.
Oldham Coliseum Theatre and Harrogate Theatre co-produce a revival of Alan Ayckbourn’s Sugar Daddies.
Sugar Daddies follows on last year’s Coliseum and Harrogate co-production, The Hound of the Baskervilles and runs at Oldham from March 12–30.
Details: www.coliseum.org.uk
A show to herald spring opens at Theatre by the Lake in Keswick on Thursday. Adapted from Reginald Arkell’s ‘novel of the garden’ by Alfred Shaughnessy, Old Herbaceous charts one man’s journey from orphan boy to legendary head gardener.
House of Orphans and the International Anthony Burgess Foundation present a new stage adaptation of One Hand Clapping in the author’s home city of Manchester next weekend.
It’s at the IABF in Cambridge Street, Manchester from Thursday to Saturday.
Details: www.anthonyburgess.org