Steve Coogan is coming to Lancashire on tour and bringing his comedy character, Alan Partridge, back to life on stage.

After 13 long years away from the stage, Stratagem with Alan Partridge will start this Spring 2022 across the UK and Ireland.

The show will be coming to Blackpool’s Grand Opera House on 17 May; he's also playing two dates at Manchester Arena on May 13 and 14.

The tour's blurb reads: "Over a multi-decade broadcasting career, this wonderful and surprisingly well-read man has brought delight to millions.

"And now, in a country riven with discord and disease, Alan is touring the country with a message of hope.

"The live stage show that promises to inform, educate and entertain in approximately equal measure."

Coogan describes the live show as a cross between a Ted Talk and West Side Story promising that each stage on the tour will be riddled with a "whole heap of metaphorical mines which could explode at any second under the weight of Alan’s inappropriate musings or clumsy turns of phrase".

"Wearing a head-mic favoured by TED talkers, market hawkers, TV evangelists, backing singers and carnival barkers, Alan combines all these roles and more," he adds.

"It’s a manifesto for the way we can move forward, a roadmap to a better tomorrow, an ABC for the way to be."

Speaking about the tour, Steve Coogan said: “Alan will be trying to impart his accumulated wisdom and put it into some form that has cogency, so that he can ‘help’ other people.

“It’s an all-encompassing, almost cripplingly broad attempt to cover all potential personal problems that people might have in processing the modern world, so Alan helps people navigate the rocky waters of gender, equality, diversity, sexual identity.

“Whatever the most precarious and dangerous landscapes that are out there, we’ll put Alan’s walking bits on and let him stomp all over them.”

After his first appearance on Radio 4 in 1991, Partridge has gone on to feature in chat shows, sitcoms and his own film.

Here is a full list of UK tour dates:

  • Belfast, SSE Arena – 22 April
  • Dublin, Arena, Dublin – 23 and 24 April
  • Edinburgh, Playhouse - 26 April and 26 May
  • Birmingham, Utilita Arena – 28 and 29 April
  • Sheffield, Sheffield Utilita Arena – 30 April
  • Newcastle, Utilita Arena – 2 and 4 May
  • Hull, Bonus Arena - 1 and 15 May
  • Nottingham, Motorpoint Arena – 6 and 7 May
  • Brighton, Brighton Centre – 8 and 9 May
  • Livepool, M&S Bank Arena – 11 May
  • Manchester, AO Arena – 13 and 14 May
  • Blackpool, Grand Opera House – 17 May
  • Plymouth, Plymouth Pavilions – 18 May
  • Cardiff, Motorpoint Arena – 19, 20, 21 May
  • Bournemouth, Bournemouth BIC – 22 May
  • Glasgow, SSE Arena – 24 and 25 May
  • Aberdeen, P&J Live – 27 May
  • Leeds, First Direct Arena – 28 and 29 May
  • London, The O2 – 31 May and 1 and 3 June

Tickets can be purchased at alanpartridgelive.com and ticketmaster.co.uk.