THE Brewery’s spring season is bursting with a mix of some of the most exciting and innovative artists from across the UK and beyond.

To start with, comedy fans will be falling over themselves to get tickets for Irish comedian and actor Dylan Moran and comic singer songwriter John Shuttleworth (aka Graham Fellows) who will both be heading to the Kendal arts centre for laugh out loud gigs.

Kicking off the music programme on January 22 will be Seattle-based duo Cahalen Morrison and Eli West who went down a storm at the Brewery in 2013 with their raw and powerful brand of Americana.

And jazz fans can experience the sounds of Anglo-American supergroup The Impossible Gentlemen on February 12.

On the dance front, one of the most in-demand companies in the UK, James Wilton Dance, brings its Last Man Standing show to Kendal on March 6.

For theatre, crowd-pullers include Pocket Comedy of Errors (February 4), Shakespeare’s farcical comedy condensed into an hour of fantastic physical theatre by exciting all-male company Propellor, plus a two-night run for The Picture of Doreen Gray by the highly entertaining duo of Maggie Fox and Sue Ryding, widely known as Lip Service, who on February 27/28 perform an updated comedy version of Oscar Wilde’s famous novel about the pursuit of beauty at all costs.

Fast paced, physical theatre is courtesy of The Knotted Project on February 10.

Meanwhile, the story of Elizabeth I is given the comedy treatment in Brewery chief executive Richard Foster's pick of the season, Virgin on the Ridiculous by Living Spit on March 18, and members of the audience are being asked to get involved with their own ideas for an entirely improvised Jane Austen play in Austentatious on January 31.

After three total sell-out Edinburgh Festival runs, the award-winning improvised comedy show hinges on a deceptively simple idea: audiences are asked to place imaginary titles for a Jane Austen novel into a hat.

One is selected at random and immediately turned into an improvised show. Performed in period costume with live musical accompaniment, Austentatious is billed as an immersive and hilarious treat for fans of Austen and improvised comedy alike.

For further details of the Brewery's spring season visit www.breweryarts.co.uk or telephone box office on 01539-725133.