What Is (A drunken meditation on the mystery of existence) at Liverpool Playhouse

There’s high jinks and high drama in Emma Rice Company’s musical adaptation of Enid Blyton’s original ‘Girl Power’ story.

If Return to the Forest opens up a world where objects come to life, this family workshop offers a chance to step into that process yourself.

Olga Kaleta’s surreal dark comedy explores mental health, identity and recovery in the context of aworld where fear is starting to look like common sense.

A solo show where a Belfast childhood collides with adult life, balancing humour, care and the long shadow of political conflict.

We speak to the creative team behind Return to the Forest – a puppetry and dance show that insists young audiences deserve the same artistic ambition as anyone else.

Sir Stephen Hough returns to Manchester, where his musical life began, with a recital built around a deceptively simple idea: the piano miniature.

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

Alan Jones’s photography exhibition in Chorlton explores fragments of impossibly large systems through images of discarded objects with long afterlives.

Marking its 40th anniversary, esea contemporary looks forward rather than back with a group exhibition that probes ideas of transition.