The Mousetrap, the world’s longest-running stage production from ‘queen of crime’ Agatha Christie, comes to The Lowry in Salford on the UK tour that celebrates its diamond anniversary.
Fresh from wowing audiences with their show Midnight Tango, TV's Strictly Come Dancing stars Vincent Simone and Flavia Cacace are back at Manchester Opera House with a brand new show: Dance 'Til Dawn.
Marti Pellow returns to the role of Che in Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's Evita when the show comes back to Manchester Palace Theatre.
Following the Royal Northern College of Music’s critically-acclaimed production of Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore last season, the RNCM Opera turns to Gluck this Spring, and a double-bill featuring The Drunkard Cured and Orfeo ed Euridice.
There will be another chance to see Vienna by Mike Francis Carvalho, which ended its UK tour at Manchester’s Nowt Part Of Festival last July. It will be at Waterside Arts Centre in Sale on 20 March.
For only their second production, the recently-formed Manchester Shakespeare Company presents a full-length adaptation of Romeo and Juliet titled Before Juliet at the city’s Three Minute Theatre.
A play first seen in Preston, as part of the city’s Tringe festival of fringe theatre, returns to the city on a national tour which also includes London performances. Hidden delves into the lives of six young people living in a city sprawl and is at Korova arts and café bar in Preston next Friday.
The Dukes in Lancaster stages a bold new production: Your Country Needs You! (But I don’t need my country…). Some of the 50 members of The Dukes Young Actors and Young Company presenting the production are the same age as many soldiers who served in the Great War.
Powerful new dance pieces combine to challenge and delight in the haunting Triple Bill from Dancing Partners at Blackpool Grand on Tuesday.