Adam Hughes is a young playwright whose first play, True Colours, comes to the Lantern Theatre in Liverpool on Friday and Saturday
Australia’s contemporary circus company Casus is at the Black-e in Liverpool on Thursday with its première work Knee Deep, one of only three UK dates.
This year’s national Shakespeare Schools Festival is the biggest yet, with 25,000 young people from 1,000 primary, secondary and special schools performing their own interpretations of Shakespeare on professional stages throughout the UK.
Several venues around the North West will be featuring performances.
In Doggerland—opening at The Lowry in Salford next week before touring the country—will feature award-winning actress Natalie Grady.
In Doggerland tells the funny and heartfelt story of four people struggling to move forward under the weight of past trauma.
Lancaster Grand Theatre’s annual comedy festival has grown into a seriously big event with even more major names featured in a fortnight that starts this Saturday.
A show which has taken the international theatre scene by storm comes to The Dukes in Lancaster.
The Animals And Children Took To The Streets had its world première at Sydney Opera House and has enjoyed three critically acclaimed London seasons, including two at the National Theatre, and two years of touring across the globe.
A Lancaster-based improvised theatre company, We Are Improv, has been invited to perform at the Dublin Improv Festival in November so will be performing a preview performance next Thursday at the Dalton Rooms in Dalton Square. Lancaster.
As part of their autumn tour, The Lowry's Artists-in-Residence, Company Chameleon, return to Live at LICA at Lancaster University on Wednesday with a dance double-bill of Pictures We Make and Eden.
Physical theatre performers CMP bring their thrilling take on Macbeth to several venues around the region.
Catch it on Thursday at The Arts Centre, Edge Hill University, Ormskirk and on Friday and Saturday at Salford Arts Theatre.
Award-winning Austrian dance crew Nobulus brings its production Out of The Shadow to Blackpool’s Grand Theatre on Tuesday night.
Opera North celebrates Benjamin Britten with three productions including the acclaimed Peter Grimes—from the director of Mamma Mia.
Performances are from Tuesday to Saturday at The Lowry in Salford.
Flesh—a brand new play by Sarah McDonald Hughes based on the experiences of young parents in Manchester and produced by Monkeywood Theatre in its first collaboration with Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre—will première in The Studio at the Exchange, from Wednesday to Saturday.
Manchester-based Word of Warning teams up with city housing association Guinness Northern Counties, in a unique partnership that will see a mini-festival of new performance and storytelling taking place in a Hulme block of flats.
The Reduced Shakespeare Company brings The Complete Works of Shakespeare [abridged] [revised] to The Coliseum, Oldham on Tuesday.