BISPHAM COMMUNITY CENTRE, Bispham Road, Bispham

Bobby Ball

Back by popular demand for a night of riotous laughter Bobby Ball shares his incredible life story with the audience.

Saturday, 8pm, admission free (donations on the night for Macmillan Windmill Appeal for cancer relief)

THE COMEDY STORE, Deansgate Locks, Whitworth Street, Manchester

The Best in Stand Up

Tim Clarke, Steve Hughes, Archie Kelly, Justin Moorhouse and Mike Wilmot

Friday, 8pm, £13 and £6 conc.

The Best in Stand Up

Tim Clarke, Steve Hughes, Archie Kelly, Justin Moorhouse and Mike Wilmot

Saturday, 8pm, £14 and £6

Men At Work

Roger Monkhouse, Tony Burgess, Alan Carr, Mick Ferry and Dave Williams

Wednesday, 8pm, £7 and £6 conc.

The Comedy Store Players

Stephen Frost, Jim Sweeney, Andy Smart, Richard Vranch and Suki Webster

Thursday, 8pm, £12 and £6

THE FROG & BUCKET, Oldham Street, Manchester

Red Hot Raw + Curry and Quips

Stu Who performs, joined by six hopefuls, with balti supper available.

Thursday, £5, with balti £7, NUS £2, with balti £4

Barrel Of Laughs

A minimum of three top comedians and compere.

Friday, £10 and £6 NUS, Saturday, £12 and £6 NUS

THEATRE

LIBRARY THEATRE, Manchester

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Come along to George and Martha's for an evening of fun and games but the stage becomes a night of drunken recriminations and revelations when they are joined by Nick and Honey.

Runs until Saturday, 7.30pm, Sat Mat 2.30pm, £9.50 to £12

OCTAGON THEATRE, Bolton

The Lonesome West

A hilarious dark Irish comedy set in Galway about the lives of two brothers living together in their father's house after his death.

Runs until Saturday, November 30, 7.30pm, Mat (Nov 30) 2pm, £6.50 to £14.75

OPERA HOUSE, Manchester

Aida and Norma

A magnificent traditional production from the Ellen Kent and Opera International.

Monday to Saturday, 7.15pm, £8 to £39.50

PALACE THEATRE, Manchester

Beauty and the Beast

One of the most popular and enchantingly romantic stories ever told is brought to life in Disney's award-winning musical.

Runs until February 8, 2003, 7.30pm, Wed & Sat Mat 2.30pm, £13 to £33.50

THE MET, Bury

Electra

After becoming obsessed with her father's murder, Electra seeks revenge.

Monday, 7.30pm, £8 and £6 conc.

Hell & Dreams of a Ridiculous Man

In Hell, Steven Berkoff's ever-failing alter-ego Harry, having died of loneliness, renders his ultimate appeal for a little sympathy and company and in The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, a would-be suicide dreams of a paradise which he himself destroys.

Thursday, 7.30pm, £7 and £5 conc.

GIGS

MUSU and ACADEMY 1,2 and 3, Oxford Road, Manchester

A + Goldfinger + Voodoo Glow Skulls

Friday, 7.30pm, £13

Drive By Truckers

Friday, 7.30pm £9

Australian Pink Floyd Show

Tomorrow, 7.30pm, £14.50

Dawn Of The Replicants

Tomorrow, 7.30pm, £8

The Guthries

Monday, 7.30pm, £8.50

Durutti Column

Wednesday, 7.30pm, £13.50

Sparklehorse

Wednesday, 7.30pm, £12.50

MANCHESTER EVENING NEWS ARENA, Manchester.

David Gray

Friday, 7.30pm, £21.50

His number one album White Ladder has now gone platinum 7 times in the UK.

Moby

Tomorrow, 7.30pm, £18.50

Dance egghead in his biggest UK tour to date.

CARLING APOLLO, Ardwick Green, Manchester

Ryan Adams

Tomorrow, 7.30pm, £16

Indie-Folk superstar . Fully Seated/Standing Downstairs.

THE ROADHOUSE, Manchester

The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster

Monday, 7 30pm, £6

THE WITCHWOOD, Old Street, Ashton-Under-Lyne.

Nearly Dan

Tomorrow, 8pm, £7

Toby Jepson + Steve Wilson

Sunday, 8pm, £5

Cosmic Rough Riders + Spacehopper

Tuesday, 8pm, £5

Andy Goddard

Wednesday, 8 30pm, £5

The Wandering Step + Dahl

Thursday, 8pm, £3