Out of Kilter Theatre Company's Things of Darkness written by Mark Murphy is at Hope Mill Theatre in Ancoats as part of the Greater Manchester Fringe Festival on 13 and 14 July.
Also in GM Fringe, Grand Dame Theatre will perform The Lionheart Phantom by Tess Humphrey at The Castle Hotel on Oldham Street, Manchester on 11 and 12 July.
Cyril the Squirrel, "an exciting, silly and heart-warming piece of new children’s theatre about diversity, friendship and life in Woody Woodland", is at The Lowry in Salford on 17 July.
Tall Stories will perform its adaptation of The Gruffalo's Child from the book by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler at Blackpool's Grand Theatre on 13 and 14 July.