MY FAIR LADY

(Crewe Lyceum, Mar 20-24)

The CREWE Amateur Musicals Society present their next production, the classic My Fair Lady.

Based on George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, with book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe, the story concerns Eliza Doolittle, a Cockney flower girl who takes speech lessons from professor Henry Higgins, a phoneticist, so that she may pass as a lady.

The original Broadway and London shows starred Julie Andrews and Rex Harrison, who reprised his role for the film version alongside Audrey Hepburn.

Tickets cost £17 though groups buying nine tickets get the 10th free.

For tickets, call 01270 368 242.

MITCH BENN: I'M STILL HERE

(Theatr Clwyd, Mold, March 17)

Congratulations! It’s 2018 and you’re still here!

So is Mitch, looking backwards, forwards and sideways trying to make the world a better place, one silly song at a time, as heard on BBC Radio 4’s The Now Show.

The Liverpool-born comedian, now based in south-west London, has appeared on tv and radio with his own firebrand style of music and comedy.

Previously, he has written love songs to the BBC and the NHS and has become a strong advocate for overturning Brexit through his social media use.

The show starts at 7.30pm.

Tickets cost £14 and £12 for senior citizens and students – call 01352 701 521 for more details.

VOTES FOR WOMEN

(New Vic Theatre, Mar 6-24)

After years of campaigning, the suffrage movement is further than ever from achieving their goal: the vote.

As Parliament continue to delay taking any progressive action, the women decide to take their campaign into their homes and as word spreads through friends and acquaintances, support for votes for women gains momentum. Before long, people from all walks of life are imagining a different future, and the change in society that could be possible. Persuading the people in power to change their minds however, is another matter…

This gripping production explores a definitive moment in our history and takes audiences into the world of a campaign that shows that anything is possible.

Presented with kind permission of Independent Age, the play stars Rebecca Brewer as Freddy Tunbridge, Hannah Edwards as Christable Pankhurst and Danielle Henry as Annie Kenney.

Tickets cost £14.50-24 – for more details, call 01782 717 962.