COMEDY favourite Alan Partridge is coming to the Hydro.

The character - played by Steve Coogan - will be live on stage at the venue on May 25 next year as part of a UK and Ireland tour.

Welcome to Stratagem with Alan Partridge is a live stage show that promises to inform, educate and entertain in approximately equal measure.

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Glasgow Times:

Wearing a head-mic favoured by TED talkers, market hawkers, TV evangelists, backing singers and carnival barkers, Alan combines all these roles and more. It’s a manifesto for the way we can move forward, a roadmap to a better tomorrow, an ABC for the way to be.

Devised, written, choreographed, performed, and funded by Alan Partridge, Stratagem sees Alan not just treading the boards but pounding them, at top stages graced by such luminaries as Michael Ball, Jack Whitehall and Welsh rockers the Stereophonics.

Tickets will go on sale 9am on Saturday, May 29 priced £40.95 to £63.65 (inc admin fee).

They will be available from www.thessehydro.com