Malkin Tower theatre company stages Shakespeare's Twelfth Night at Manchester’s Victoria Baths next week.
They re-imagine it as a late 19th Century exploration of hysteria and madness with live music from Manchester's music hall and folk heritage.
Agony aunt Virginia Ironside performs her show Growing Old Disgracefully at Lancaster’s Dukes Theatre next Thursday.
It’s directed by Nigel Planer, and gives Virginia, 68, a chance to prove the best and funniest time of your life is in your 60s.
Live at LICA at Lancaster University stages its third Curate the Campus Fortnight which runs from April 29 to May 10.
It’s an annual residency programme that develops artistic projects in unusual spaces and locations across the campus and the wider region.
Dance walking—the craze currently sweeping New York—is coming to Lancaster next Friday as part of the city’s First Friday initiative encouraging people to try out something new on the local arts scene each month.
Ludus Dance will be leading the three-mile dance walk around Lancaster University campus from 12.30-1.30pm.
Details: www.artscity.co.uk
After its triumphant revival in the West End, Mike Leigh’s classic comedy Abigail’s Party comes to The Lowry next week.
Hannah Waterman, Martin Marquez, Samuel James, Katie Lightfoot and Emily Raymond star in the stage adaptation of one of the most popular TV plays ever created.
Olivier Award and Manchester Theatre Award nominated actress Cush Jumbo is set to star in a major revival of Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House at Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre from Wednesday to June 1.
She has just played Mark Antony in the Donmar Warehouse’s all female production of Julius Caesar.
The national tour The Rise and Fall of Little Voice reaches Manchester Opera House next week.
It stars Beverley Callard as Mari Hoff, Ray Quinn as Billy, Duggie Brown as Mr Boo and Jess Robinson as Little Voice.
That Is All You Need To Know is the first production in The Lowry’s new Accelerate programme in Salford.
It has its world première from Thursday to Saturday, telling the story behind wartime Bletchley Park and the untold secrets of the remarkable men and women who cracked the Germans’ Enigma code.
Freerange Theatre Company, which began its existence in Lancaster, is on a regional tour with its production of Spoonface Steinberg by Lee Hall, the writer of Billy Elliot.
It’s a play about faith, love and the meaning of life as viewed through the eyes of an eight-year-old autistic girl diagnosed with cancer.