The Royal Exchange in Manchester is to stage the world première of award-winning playwright Rona Munro’s new play Scuttlers—about Manchester’s original gangs—from next Thursday through to March 7.
Songbird at Preston Charter Theatre on Wednesday evening stars Sarah-Jane Buckley, lauded as one of the world’s leading Eva Cassidy performers.
The heartbreak, humour, passion and desperation of teenagers caught up in World War One combines with song in a new show at The Dukes in Lancaster on Monday night. The Muddy Choir takes its audience into the trenches of Ypres and introduces them to three teenage soldiers of the Durham Light Infantry.
First Friday, Lancaster’s monthly mini-festival of the arts, returns this week and features internationally acclaimed interactive artists Blast Theory presenting a version of a piece first seen at the prestigious Venice Biennale.
Blackpool Grand Theatre hosts a treat for young children when the highly acclaimed Lancashire-based Horse + Bamboo Theatre Company brings its new production of Hansel + Gretel to the resort on Tuesday and Wednesday daytime.
Following an acclaimed season at Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2014, the Reduced Shakespeare Company is on a UK tour again. Catch them around the region starting at Waterside Arts Centre in Sale, Greater Manchester next Saturday.
Too Much Too Young?, a new show at Sale’s Waterside Arts Centre next Thursday, scrutinises the education system.
Following sell-out shows at the 2014 Edinburgh Fringe, Ad Infinitum brings Light, created with and featuring deaf actor Matty Gurney, to The Lowry’s Studio on Wednesday and Thursday.