1 EGGMAN and Moo Community Theatre stages Everyone Sang by Adam Egginton at the Theatre Factory, Cooke's Studios, Barrow, today (Tuesday) and tomorrow (Wednesday). Filled with drama, humour and passion and directed by Phil Gregg, it's set in the glamorous world of the 1920s, and revolutionary war poet, Seigfried Sassoon, still haunted by his past, his loss and his demons, meets the 'Darling of the Nation,' matinee idol, Ivor Novello, composer of Keep the Home Fires Burning. Ivor, at the height of his fame, struggles to find inspiration for his work and bring meaning to his life. Together the pair reveal a story of an unlikely love affair of two contrasting icons against all odds. Featuring the music of Novello and the words of Sassoon to bring the romance and the hurt of the period to life.

2 WALNEY Musical Theatre Company stages the magnificent new musical comedy The Addams Family at The Forum at Barrow from tomorrow (Wednesday) until Saturday (7.30pm). Featuring a witty, sharp and modern score from Andrew Lippa, expect Uncle Fester, Lurch, Morticia and Gomez, humour, quick fire jokes, physical comedy, and a good storyline, all parcelled up in sparkling Hollywood style, courtesy of the talented WMTC cast. It tells of Wednesday Addams, the ultimate princess of darkness, who has fallen in love with a smart young man from a respectable family. Box office 01229-820000.

3 PETER Gill will present The Wit and Songs of Noel Coward at Beetham's Heron Theatre on Saturday, November 17 (7.30pm). Pianist and entertainer, Peter stages a tribute to the wit and songwriting skill of that most English of Englishmen, Noel Coward, who said of himself, "I am an enormously talented man and there is no point in denying it." Coward was an actor, writer, composer, director, producer and, in later life, painter. Pay at the door or select seats and book online at www.theherontheatre.com. Box office 015395-64283.

4 LEGEND has it that many years ago a book of terrifying tales was found. Decades later, the Book of Darkness and Light in association with LittleMighty presents Shivers combining thrilling gothic stories by Adam Z Robinson and haunting sounds of the violin composed and performed by Ben Styles, in a captivating, spooky spectacular co-production between Harrogate Theatre, Square Chapel Arts Centre and LittleMighty staged at Ulverston's Coronation Hall on Friday, November 16 (7.30pm). Box office 01229-587140.

5 THIS week's programme at the Old Laundry features award-winning Box Tale Soup’s version of Oscar Wilde’s haunting story of evil, debauchery and scandal, A Picture of Dorian Gray, staged on Thursday, November 15 (7.30pm) with puppetry and a powerful original soundtrack. It tells of Dorian Gray, young and exceptionally beautiful, who sinks deep into a frivolous lifestyle of glamorous luxury and selfish abandon, seemingly unchanged by corruption and untouched by age. But behind a thick, locked door, beneath a dark, heavy curtain, Dorian’s portrait tells a different story. The following night (Friday, November 16, 7.30pm) at the Bowness theatre Dyad Productions stages The Time Machine, Elton Townend Jones’ radical new interpretation of the HG Wells classic, in which a Victorian time traveller transcends across the ages from 1900 to our own far future. Box office 015394-40872.