Internationally renowned company Phoenix Dance Theatre returns to Liverpool Playhouse next Tuesday, with a triple bill that contains all the hallmarks of Phoenix’s work.
In the year that marks the 450th anniversary of the birth of William Shakespeare the 2014 Demi-Paradise production of Othello at Lancaster Castle opens next Thursday. The production runs until March 22.
The Royal Shakespeare Company present their First Encounter production of The Taming of The Shrew live on Blackpool Grand Theatre’s stage this week. Using an edited version of the original text, it will also include an introduction to the performance and a chance to hear from the actors, to create a first experience of seeing Shakespeare live.
Following a successful run in London’s West End, the first UK and Ireland tour of the hit Beatles show Let It Be will launch at the Palace Theatre Manchester this week.
Acclaimed all-male Shakespeare company Propeller returns to The Lowry in Salford this week with its productions of The Comedy of Errors and A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
The Seagull, one of Anton Chekhov’s masterpieces, will be the final production under The Library Theatre Company banner in Manchester before it becomes Home, the new organisation created by its merger with Cornerhouse. It runs to March 8 at The Lowry in Salford.
Following on from productions of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet, and Macbeth, Twelfth Night is the fourth Bolton Octagon Shakespeare production to be directed by Olivier Award-winning artistic director David Thacker.
The Circus of Horrors rolls into Manchester Opera House next Thursday night after making it to the finals of Britain's Got Talent and appearances.
Manchester Royal Exchange Theatre’s acclaimed production of Black Roses: The Killing Of Sophie Lancaster—starring Julie Hesmondhalgh—returns to the venue this week.
Strangeways, “a darkly comic exploration of loneliness, loss and senility”, is performed at the Kings Arms in Salford Monday to Thursday. It recently completed a successful run at Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
Laid Bare Theatre’s multimedia theatre show Project XXX continues its tour of the region on Monday with a performance at DT3, the Dukes performance space in Lancaster.
From Monday to Wednesday, Fresh Loaf Productions stages its latest theatre performance—Hand Over Fist by Royal Court Young Writer Dave Florez at Kings Arms, Salford.
Now in its fourth year, the original touring spectacular An Evening of Burlesque hits Oldham Coliseum on Wednesday.
Following on from his debut Theatre Tour Live and Unjudged, Brendan Cole from TV’s Strictly Come Dancing brings his current show, Licence To Thrill, to Preston Guild Hall next Thursday.
Performance company Gob Squad makes a welcome return to Lancaster University next Wednesday with its new show Western Society.