FROM Calendar Girls and Le Grand Cirque to the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Romeo and Juliet – The Lowry packs a dramatic punch for all tastes during the autumn and winter months.

Lorna Luft, Judy Garland’s daughter, stars as the Wicked Witch in The Wizard of Oz while the Australian Ballet, one of the world’s leading ballet companies, make their North West debut with Swan Lake.

The knives are out in dangerous vendettas as rival fractions clash to block the path of true love in West Side Story and the Shakespeare play that inspired it, Romeo and Juliet.

On a gentler note, the stage version of the hit move Calendar Girls also hits the boards in Salford with an all-star cast including Patricia Hodge, Gaynor Faye, Elaine C Smith, Brigit Forsyth, Lynda Bellingham and Annette Badland.

And for big and small kids everywhere the must see show of the season just has to be Slava’s Snowshow starring the gentle Russian clown.

Tickets for all shows are now on sale via the box office 0870 787 5793 or online at www.thelowry.com/mylowry