30 years after the IRA bomb, a new Royal Exchange play traces three centuries of Manchester history as it plays out through individual lives.

A woman falls in love with a vacuum in this raw, strange and tragi-comic exploration of coercive control and obsession.

Katherine Senior’s new play Spitfire Girls lands in Bolton with the extraordinary true stories of WWII women pilots.

Part rave, part ritual, Hofesh Shechter’s explosive new dance work transforms HOME into a pulsing space of rhythm and release.

High jinks and high drama are on the curriculum at Liverpool Playhouse as Emma Rice Company’s sensational musical adaptation of Enid Blyton’s classic Malory Towers hits the stage as part of a new UK tour.

Plant-powered music meets dance in a lush sky garden. This quietly radical performance invites you to slow down and tune in, and see differently.

In this world premiere, Hilary Mantel’s audacious short story becomes a darkly comic psychological thriller about power, class and political anger.

This brand new comedy drops us into a world of overstimulated kids, underslept adults and some of the more absurd truths of parenting.

Arriving from an acclaimed Edinburgh Fringe run, Nation brings a dark, unsettling fable about nationhood and identity.

In this one-woman portrait of living with OCD, Phoebe’s obsession with lists spirals into something darker.

Painfully true and often painfully funny, Funeral Teeth explores grief’s quieter losses – the moments that slip away before you realise they’re gone.

This Pulitzer Prize-winning opera brings a dark contemporary parable about exploitation, coercion and the abuse of power, underpinned by a score in which chamber music and cabaret collide with electronica and punk.

In a world premiere at Aviva Studios, Sinéad O’Connor’s musical power and moral defiance is translated into dance by the Tony Award-winning Sonya Tayeh.

A salt and pepper pot for the king and queen. A ruler for the prince. Shakespeare, brilliantly reimagined through kitchen clutter.