Michael Flatley’s Lord of the Dance: Dangerous Games brings its UK tour to Manchester Opera House next week.
Barrie Rutter, artistic director of Northern Broadsides, plays King Lear alongside a local cast with direction from Jonathan Miller at The Lowry in Salford from May 5-9.
Bristol-based company Sleepdogs presents its new touring work The Bullet and the Bass Trombone at The Studio of Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre May 1-2.
Manchester's Box of Tricks Theatre Company performs Plastic Figurines, a new play by Ella Carmen Greenhill, at The Lowry in Salford next week.
The Meet the Real Maggie Thatcher pre-election UK tour comes to an end at Alra Theatre in the Mill Wigan on 6 May.
London Classic Theatre will bring its revival of Alan Ayckbourn's Absent Friends to the Grand Theatre in Blackpool from 5 to 9 May.
A collaboration between The Commonword Women in the Spotlight programme and the Three Minute Theatre, 369 Project, has led to the creation of 7 new short plays by women writers, which will be performed at 3MT on 6 and 7 May.