Award-winning theatre company Organised Chaos Productions brings its latest collaboration to The Lowry in Salford next Thursday to Saturday.
It features two successful plays from their script call last year: Broken by Ella Carmen Greenhill and A Lot Of It About by Ned Hopkins.
The Bear—a taut, tense and funny show about an everyday murder and a mythic bear—comes to the stage of The Studio at the Royal Exchange Theatre from Thursday to Saturday.
Opera producer Ellen Kent is returning to Manchester Opera House next Friday and Saturday with two new productions of Tosca and Carmen.
The Octagon Theatre in Bolton presents Dario Fo’s knockabout comedy Can’t Pay? Won’t Pay!, the fun-filled romp which is as politically relevant today as when it first appeared on stage in 1974.
The play runs from Thursday to May 18.
Award-winning writer and performer Alan Bissett brings his new show The Red Hourglass to The Studio at Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre on Monday and Tuesday.
The Reduced Shakespeare Company is on tour again with its Complete Works of William Shakespeare performed in 97 minutes flat!
Catch them at the Theatre By The Lake Keswick on Tuesday, The Brewery in Kendal on Wednesday, or at the Atkinson in Southport on June 12.
Waterside Arts Centre in Sale, Greater Manchester welcomes John Godber’s 63rd play, Losing the Plot, on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Written and directed by the veteran playwright, the two-hander stars Steve Huison of The Full Monty and Coronation Street fame as Jack Munroe and Waterloo Road actress Susan Cookson as his wife Sally.
Lancaster Footlights dedicate their latest production The History Boys to the actor Richard Griffiths, who died last month.
The production runs from Tuesday to Saturday at the Grand Theatre in Lancaster.
As the centenary of World War One looms, the true story of a miner trapped in a tunnel during the conflict will be told at The Dukes in Lancaster on Monday and Tuesday.
The Trench is an award-winning play which achieved a sell-out five star run at the Edinburgh Festival and is now on a nationwide tour.
Lancaster Castle’s Shire Hall is the setting for a rehearsed reading of Graham Kemp’s play The Trial of the Pendle Witches next Thursday and Friday.
Audiences will be invited to join company and writer for an informal Q&A session after each performance.
Details: www.demiparadiseproductions.co.uk