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 ...

Grace Darling was the lighthouse keeper’s daughter on Longstone, one of the Farne Islands off the stunning Northumberland coast. One September morning in 1838, she and her father rowed out to rescue ...

A cult film is a lot like a crush. It shares with infatuation the thrill of discovery, the giddy delusion that the object of your affection has qualities only you can fully discern. The loved one is ...

For the British Textile Biennial 2025, artists and makers filled spaces – which previously, directly or indirectly, powered Lancashire’s cotton industry – with stories of innovation in textile ...

The first time I went to the Manchester Literature Festival, I bumped into Lady Antonia Fraser coming out of the toilet. That was 14 years ago, but you don’t forget meeting a literary icon in the bogs ...

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

This evening, she’s at Central Library to talk about her work as part of the Manchester Literature Festival and because her novel, Vanishing World, has just been released in English. For many ...