It is often said that La Bohéme is the perfect ‘first opera’ to see. The Lowry’s website recommends it to seasoned ...

Whether it’s the celebratory verses lit in honour of the late dub poet Benjamin Zephaniah, or a determination to counter the ...

Opened in May 2024, Tom Barnes’ new Manchester gaff has already won a slew of awards. It received a Michelin star within a ...

It is early in the season to be feeling Christmassy. Yet Anne-Marie Casey’s adaptation of Little Women, the stage equivalent ...

Between Two Points - Andy Murray charts the remarkable story of the song, and Tranmer and Quigley's band The Montgolfier ...

Roots in the Sky, a group exhibition at Manchester’s HOME curated by and featuring Tunji Adeniyi-Jones, offers a seductive ...

At any time of day or night, the skyline of Media City is shattered by a geometry of lights, lines, and colours. Now, thrusting along the water, its bold shapes find echoes in the vibrant new artwork ...

Believe it or not but naked clog fighting was a mysterious and illegal sport that existed in Northern mining communities for hundreds of years. Now Gallery Oldham is staging an exhibition examining ...

She was lauded as an exceptional painter. Now a new exhibition highlights something entirely different: rag rugs. Tullie House in Carlisle is hosting Winifred Nicholson: Cumbrian Rag Rugs. Revealing ...

Barely a stone’s throw away in physical distance but light years away in almost other aspect from the hullaballoo around the eventual opening of the jaw-droppingly expensive Aviva Studios, one of ...

This is the only time I will spend in this room This is the only time I will speak to this person ...

You know the kind of thing you’re getting with a Shakespearean comedy. Lovers falling out with each other amid some crossed wires. Someone (usually a hapless male ...