Oldham Coliseum’s annual Christmas show, rated ‘the best traditional panto you are likely to see in the region’, runs until January 4.
Jack and the Beanstalk is from the award-winning team behind Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty.
Manchester theatre company Box of Tricks returns to The Continental in Preston next Thursday with award-winning playwright Tom Morton-Smith’s compelling new play, In Doggerland.
Box of Tricks has already performed My Arms and Word:Play at the Continental—both to acclaim.
What the Ladybird Heard comes to Preston Charter Theatre next Thursday and Friday for three daytime performances.
Live music, puppetry and plenty of audience participation included.
BBC Radio Lancashire presenter Sally Naden is in new studio play A Walk in the Park, the debut of writer Emily Chriscoli.
It’s performed from Wednesday to Friday at the John Cooper-Clarke Theatre, above The Black Lion on Chapel Street.
Details: www.newlivetheatre.co.uk/shows/a-walk-in-the-park
Stan's Café brings its staging of "the greatest book ever written" to Live at LICA at Lancaster University on Tuesday and Wednesday.
The Anatomy of Melancholy is nearly 400 years old; a vast, 1500-page attempt to identify the causes, symptoms and cures for all kinds of melancholy.
Motionhouse dance company returns to the Grand in Blackpool next Tuesday.
Broken combines athleticism with digital imagery and original music in a uniquely visual spectacle.
Christmas comes early with Northern Ballet's heart-warming adaptation of Charles Dickens's classic tale A Christmas Carol at Manchester Palace Theatre.
An audience favourite for over 20 years, it runs from Tuesday to Saturday.
The Octagon Theatre in Bolton serves up Robin Hood as its seasonal show, in a new adaptation of the legendary tale, written by Morgan Lloyd Malcolm and directed by Elizabeth Newman.
The show runs to January 11.
Following the success of last year’s award-winning At Swim Two Boys, Earthfall dance company returns to The Lowry on Tuesday and Wednesday with its latest production, Chelsea Hotel, set to transform The Quays theatre into one of Manhattan’s most notorious landmarks.
When a group of TV writers got together in 2009 to produce an evening of six 15-minute plays, none of them envisaged anything other than a ‘one-off’ bit of fun on the Manchester fringe.
Fast forward to this month and following huge acclaim and box office success, the group is delighted to be celebrating the tenth re-incarnation of JB Shorts and with that, a whopping 100 performances.
Box Clever presents an abridged version of Shakespeare’s classic tragedy Romeo and Juliet at Contact Theatre in Manchester next week.
It runs from Tuesday to Thursday.