A live stage production of the cult movie Blade Runner is at the Lass O’Gowrie in Manchester from April 6-10.
This stripped-back, live fringe adaptation, a Lass première, considers profound questions of what it actually means to be alive and, who defines what constitutes life.
Details: http://www.wegottickets.com/location/1313
Behind Every Door, at the Lass O’Gowrie on Thursday April 11 and Tuesday April 16, is a set of four short plays by writer Rebekah Harrison (24:7, The Lowry Studio, Library NewScript Night).
Details: www.milkandtwosugarstheatrecompany.co.uk
Morphic presents Pack Up Your Troubles, a musical charting Salford life on the home front in World War Two, at Manchester’s Royal Northern College of Music, April 12-13.
Details: www.rncm.ac.uk.
Following the sell out Of Mice and Men, Black Box Theatre Company returns to Liverpool’s Lantern Theatre with Shakespeare’s tragedy Othello from Thursday to Saturday.
Details: www.thelanterntheatre.co.uk
The Chuckle Brothers are back at Preston Charter Theatre next Friday with a new adventure when The Chuckle Brothers meet The Phantom.
Details: www.prestonguildhall.com
Music theatre students from Preston’s University of Central Lancashire stage The Jonah Boy, a drama based on a true story, at St Peters Arts Centre in the city next Wednesday to Saturday.
Details: www.thejonahboy.co.uk
A new play, The Thing About Psychopaths, is at Bolton’s Octagon Theatre next Thursday and Friday and The Lowry in Salford the following week.
It’s from Scottish-Ghanaian writer Ben Tagoe, and explores how empathy is being squeezed out of society.
140 Characters is a new drama directed by Rosie Stuart and Elisa Amesbury and devised and presented by The norfox Young People’s Theatre Company in Manchester.
Catch it at the Capitol Theatre, Manchester Metropolitan University, next Friday and Saturday. Both performances will be captioned.
Details: www.librarytheatre.com
The One Play, One Day series continues at The King's Arms in Salford on Sunday night.
There are two performances of all six works on Sunday night.
Details: www.kingsarmssalford.com
All-male Shakespeare company Propeller returns to The Lowry in Salford next week with a new perspective on two classic tales, Twelfth Night and The Taming of The Shrew.
Perrier Award winning performer, writer and comedian Will Adamsdale brings his new show The Victorian In The Wall to The Studio at the Royal Exchange in Manchester next Friday and Saturday.
Details: www.royalexchange.co.uk