The King and I @ Opera House Until Saturday 11th May This run at the Opera House continues right through til Saturday 11th May so there's still plenty of time to catch it. Set in 1860s Bangkok, the musical tells the story of the unconventional and tempestuous relationship that develops between the King of Siam and Anna, a British schoolteacher. Buy Tickets   West Side Story @ Royal Exchange Theatre Wednesday 1st - Saturday 25th May We all know the songs, and we’ve probably all tried to learn the opening sequence jets v sharks. The songs are stunning, the routines breathtaking. Get down to the Royal Exchange immediately! Buy Tickets   Richard III @ HOME Wednesday 1st - Saturday 4th May "A terrific production… There is blood and gore aplenty here.” That's good then because a play about Richard, Duke of Gloucester, and his campaign of deceit, manipulation and violence for the crown would be a rather tame affair without it. Head to HOME before Saturday to check it out. Buy Tickets   Educating Rita @ The Lowry Wednesday 1st - Saturday 4th May Stephen Tompkinson and Jessica Johnson (as the titular role) star in Willy Russell’s ‘Educating Rita’, which you can catch all the first week of May. The play itself has won an Olivier award, originally starring Julie Walters and Michael Caine on the west end. Buy Tickets   Girl Gang Manchester's Hamlet @ Hope Mill Thursday 2nd - Saturday 11th May Following last year’s all-female production of ‘Romeo and Juliet’, Girl Gang Manchester return to Hope Mill Theatre with Hamlet - a story that needs no introduction whatsoever. Head on down to experience quite possibly Shakespeare's finest work with an all-female twist. Buy Tickets   Vivaldi Four Seasons by Candlelight @ Manchester Cathedral Friday 3rd May If there was ever a way to bask in all the glory of Four Seasons, I think by candlelight in a Cathedral has got to be at the top of the list. Vivaldi would approve anyway! Buy Tickets   Strictly Come Dancing @ The Lowry Friday 3rd May Come on, we all love strictly and don’t say that you don’t because you’re 100% lying. We’ve all spent a Saturday night trying to learn the routines and fancying Aljaž so why not go and watch them in the flesh! Buy Tickets   Rose McGowan: Brave @ The Lowry Sunday 5th May Listen, Rose McGowan in my opinion is one of the most underrated actors on planet Earth and now is your chance to see her in the flesh, exposing the ‘real’ Rose and not star studded Hollywood Rose. Buy Tickets   Much Ado About Nothing @ The Lowry Tuesday 7th May - Saturday 11th May William Shakespeare’s second best comedy (open for debate) comes to The Lowry but with a modern 40's war time twist. Northern Broadsides presents Much Ado About Nothing as you’ve never seen it before. Buy Tickets   Peaches Christ’s Drag Becomes Her @ HOME Wednesday 8th - Saturday 11th May Peaches Christ, Jinkx Monsoon, BenDeLaCreme and Major Scales all star in this drag parody of the legendary film -Death Becomes Her. The drag queens will be dishing out the deliciously dark showbiz satire at HOME this May. Buy Tickets   The House on Cold Hill @ Opera House Monday 13th - Saturday 18th May BAFTA nominated actor Joe McFadden and award-winning actress Rita Simons star in this spine-chilling thriller from best-selling author, Peter James about the Harcourt family who move into the house of their dreams which quickly turns into the thing of nightmares. Buy Tickets   Handbagged @ Oldham Coliseum Tuesday 14th May - Saturday 1st June Handbagged aims to imagine what may have happened at the Queen’s infamous weekly meetings with Margaret Thatcher. Entertaining and satirical, sharp and mischievous, the two women collide as they share their opposing views of Britain’s role in the world. Buy Tickets   The Worst Little Warehouse In London @ Kings Arms Salford Friday 17th May With 12 people living under the same roof in a converted warehouse in North London, this production follows Lala and Robbie, fresh off the boat, looking for the perfect place to call home. It's been called a "mind-bogglingly funny story of companionship, shared accommodation, and how to grit your teeth and bare it." Buy Tickets   Grand Finale @ HOME Wednesday 22nd – Saturday 25th May Following a sell-out run in January 2018, Grand Finale is back, a spectacularly bold and ambitious piece featuring ten dancers and six musicians. At once comic, bleak and beautiful, evoking a world at odds with itself, full of anarchic energy and violent comedy, Grand Finale is a vision of a world in freefall: part gig, part dance, part theatre and wholly original. Buy Tickets   Hugh Jackman: The Man. The Music. The Show @ Manchester Arena Friday 24th May Aw, lovely Hugh and his even lovelier singing voice. Expect to hear all his best bits from Les Miserables, Greatest Showman and many more. Tickets are pretty expensive but it’ll be totally worth it. Buy Tickets   My First Ballet: Sleeping Beauty @ Opera House Saturday 26th May One of the most beautiful ballets with the dreamiest score is gracing the Opera House this month. A fantastic one to take the little ones to as it’s the ‘my first ballet’ series. Buy Tickets