A dazzling new production of the classic musical Barnum, starring Brian Conley as the legendary showman P T Barnum, comes to the Palace Theatre, Manchester.
Familiar faces from stage and screen John Gordon Sinclair and James Lance will play P G Wodehouse’s iconic duo Jeeves and Wooster in the Olivier Award-winning hit Perfect Nonsense at The Lowry from Tuesday to Saturday.
George Brandt’s new play Grounded, which targets assumptions about war, family, and what it is to be a woman, arrives in The Studio at Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre from Tuesday to Saturday.
Northern Outlet Theatre Company’s double-bill is touring fringe venues in Liverpool and Manchester. John And Mark is a new play by George Gunby about a musical legend and his killer.
No Guts No Heart No Glory at Contact in Manchester Thursday and Friday is performed by a group of young Muslim women, following their award-winning Edinburgh fringe run.
Flint Street Nativity writer Tim Firth returns to the Liverpool Playhouse with another musical This is My Family.
Vienna Festival Ballet is bringing The Nutcracker to St Helens Theatre Royal on Friday as part of its 34th anniversary celebration.
Audiences at the Continental in Preston will be left in the dark next Friday and Saturday by a unique sound journey coming to the city venue. By setting Fiction in complete darkness, with the audience wearing headphones, it explores ways of creating an alternative reality.
Twenty years of democracy in South Africa will be celebrated when Afrovibes, a biennial festival of theatre, music, dance and film, takes over The Dukes in Lancaster.
Ellen Kent returns to the Grand Theatre, Blackpool with two operatic productions: Puccini’s Madama Butterfly on Monday and Verdi’s Rigoletto on Tuesday.
Comedian and broadcaster Marcus Brigstocke is on tour with his 2013 Edinburgh Fringe acclaimed show, Je m’accuse – I am Marcus and brings it to several regional venues in coming weeks.
Two new shows at The Edge, Manchester are Still Score (Friday) and Hopelessly Devoted (Sunday). The first is part music gig, part theatre, part love letter. The second sees Wasted writer, poet and rapper Kate Tempest back with an incendiary new play.