Afrobeats musical Oliva Tweest: The AfroMusical plays Manchester’s Opera House for one-night only on Tuesday.
Rambert, Britain’s leading contemporary dance company, presents Life is a Dream, its first full-length narrative dance work in almost 40 years, at The Lowry in Salford from Wednesday to Friday.
Everything that happened and would happen by German composer and artist Heiner Goebbels will receive its world première in Manchester from October 10 to 21.
Clod Ensemble opens the UK tour of its latest production Placebo at The Lowry from Thursday to Saturday.
Don Warrington returns to the Royal Exchange from Thursday to play Willy Loman in Arthur Miller’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play Death Of A Salesman.
An evening celebrating singer Barbra Streisand comes to Bolton Albert Halls on Thursday.
There are several chances to see a one-woman show about a female uprising, investigating our relationships with public space, our bodies and each other. When Did You Stop Dancing is a true story performed by Rachel McBride. It’s at the Edge, Manchester next Thursday, Ormskirk’s Arts Centre at Edge Hill University the following Saturday and The Mill At The Pier, Wigan on October 24.
Withering Looks, at Preston Charter Theatre on Tuesday night, sees comedy duo Lip Service taking one of their sideways looks at the lives and works of the Brontë sisters.
The Astonishing Vacuum Cleaner Adventure sweeps into The Dukes in Lancaster from Thursday, aiming to inspire the next generation of problem-solvers.
Maggie May – The Musical by Bob Eaton, set in Liverpool just before the outbreak of the Second World War, will be at Liverpool's Royal Court from 12 October to 10 November.