On Monday night at the Rose Theatre of Edge Hill University, Ormskirk, Small Mercies present Our Lady of the Goldfinches by Jane McNulty, directed by Bill Hopkinson.
This radical new play examines sacrifice, martyrdom and the redemptive quality of love in the story of Jean McConville's murder by the IRA and of her daughter Helen's attempt to make sense of her death.
Details: www.edgehill.ac.uk/rosetheatre
The first ever 3MT Rolling Project comes to an end this Friday with The Lantern, at The Three Minute Theatre, Afflecks Arcade, Oldham Street, Manchester.
Details: www.threeminutetheatre.co.uk
You can spend an evening in the company of popular writer, radio and television presenter, Stuart Maconie, at The Dukes in Lancaster next Friday.
An Audience with Stuart Maconie will see the Wiganer muse on his life and wide range of interests.
Details: www.dukes-lancaster.org.
Coronation Street legend Pat Phoenix is celebrated in a new play The Queen of the North which opens at the Octagon Theatre in Bolton next week.
Acclaimed television writer and playwright Ron Rose wrote the celebrated television drama about the life of Pat Phoenix The Things You Do for Love: Against the Odds that aired in 1998, and revisits her life here in a work written specifically for the stage.
Details: www.octagonbolton.co.uk
Vampirette, a new blood-curdling musical comedy, premieres at Manchester Opera House next week.
It's an all-new production that follows Vampi, the young member of a Manchester family determined to be a normal girl! She wants to spend time with friends, fall in love... and get a reflection!
Details: www.atgtickets/manchester