English National Ballet’s Manon is at the Opera House, Manchester from Wednesday to Saturday.
Common Lore is a fast-paced one-woman show featuring live-looped music and technology, touring to several venues around the region. You can catch it next Wednesday at Heysham Library, Morecambe and next Friday at Garstang Library.
Ellie Dubois: No Show landed a string of rave reviews at the Edinburgh Fringe last year, and is at the Nuffield Theatre of Lancaster University on Monday.
Blackpool’s award-winning Lightpool Festival is back for October half-term next Thursday, with several performance events.
An actor with a special hallmark appears in one of Shakespeare’s most famous plays at The Dukes in Lancaster. Ben Hall plays the title role in Henry V, performed in The Round from October 16 to 20.
After his first tour-de-force tour, My Life Story, Suggs—lead singer of Madness—is treading the boards again at the Grand in Lancaster next Wednesday with a brand new show.
In the 200th anniversary year of Emily Brontë’s birth, "literary lunatics" LipService are back with their cult Brontë spoof Withering Looks at Oldham Coliseum Tuesday to Saturday.
In the Gut is a production that has fun with the fears around pregnancy, birth and the aftermath. It’s at Oldham Libraries next Thursday, the Arts Centre at Edgehill University on October 24, The Met in Bury on October 25 and 26 and Z-Arts in Manchester on November 10.
Sunrise for the Blind is at Salford Arts Theatre next Thursday.
Z-access on Sunday is a free family fun day specially designed for children and families with disabilities or additional requirements. Complementing the day will be a relaxed performance of A Square World, about changing the world so it is accessible for everyone to enjoy.
Long Joan Silver is the first musical to be staged at Liverpool’s new Hope Street Theatre venue. In a world where ‘girls aren’t meant to be pirates’, Joan O’Malley sets out to prove her father and his shipmates wrong.
Newly formed Citrus Theatre Productions takes over The Kings Arms Salford with Sam Steiners’s Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons—an intricately witty play exploring a draconian new law limiting word usages per day.
Theatre by the Lake welcomes back Elizabeth Mansfield, in an exclusive revival of hit West End show, Marie—The Story of Marie Lloyd on October 21 in the Main House.