The Lowry audience should come prepared to lose themselves to a new love. La traviata may be the most performed opera to date, but Opera North’s passionate production ensures you will fall for the heartbreaking and tender tale all over again.

Fat Sam’s speakeasy has plenty to entertain the Opera House audience as the gangster spoof full of showgirls, hoodlums and slapstick offers a feel-good evening of childish fun.

It is easy to lose yourself in Alice Walker’s 1982 Pulitzer Prize winning novel as she masterfully injects colour, humour and connection into see Celie’s lifeless world.

Playwright Conor McPherson’s sweet and honest journey through a guest house in Duluth follows a group of solo travellers sheltering from a storm.