Ready to swing her axe in Manchester, get ready for a fresh and thrilling retelling of Lizzie The Musical this September.

A new play by the Olivier-Award winning playwright Michael Wynne heads to Liverpool, getting the theatre’s autumn/winter season off to a flying start.

Fuelled by some of the most revered love stories, the Royal Exchange’s new Autumn/ Winter Season is absolutely unmissable.

Simmering and deeply engaging, this is a new production of Miller’s classic drama you won’t want to miss.

Shifting the action to 1903 Bengal, the Royal Exchange and Tamasha Theatre join forces to bring a powerful reworking of the Dickensian classic to the stage.

Expect a riot of colour, sound and movement when South Korean choreographer, Eun-Me Ahn brings her latest production to Salford. Read on for a special ticket offer for Creative Tourist readers.

Fringe First-winner and London poetry slam champion Richard Marsh takes his fast, funny and utterly absorbing Die Hard-inspired show out on tour.

The ever-brilliant Rambert bring two “darkly funny” dance works created especially for the company by Ben Duke.

An acclaimed musical-comedy about two shambolic true-crime podcasters from Hull who find themselves in a whodunnit of their own.

Described as one of the “UK’s best comedy festivals”, the Women in Comedy Festival MCR returns with its 10th bumper edition of top-notch comedy.

Directed by Danny Boyle, Free Your Mind is a Matrix-themed large-scale performance spectacular and the first production at Manchester’s newest landmark arts venue.

Working in collaboration with Lemn Sissay OBE, Frantic Assembly bring a bold theatrical retelling of Kafka’s classic novella to Liverpool.

Beautiful, explosive and layered with wit, award-winning writer, actor and HIV activist, Nathaniel J Hall returns to the stage with a brand-new play.

One of our favourite plays of all time returns three decades after its debut, and we’re sure it will speak as loudly to audiences today as it did then.

Fast-paced and funny, this award-winning play imagines the publication of Shakespeare’s First Folio – the awe-inspiring race to round up Shakespeare’s plays and save them for the ages.

Akram Khan returns with his sensational and sensuous reimagining of one of the most romantic ballets of all time.

An intimate series of evening events taking place in the atmospheric and beautiful surroundings of Manchester Jewish Museum. Step out and experience something new.

Following a sell-out run in March 2023, this acclaimed production – Tracy-Ann Oberman as Shylock – returns to Manchester this autumn.

Join the epic journey to the South Pole as a boy tries to take a wandering penguin home. A heart-warming adaptation of Oliver Jeffers’ award-winning children’s story.