Just buy some of Shakespeare North’s reasonably priced tickets, and go. What you will find is the Handlebards, with whom this ...

Square Eyes is part of the Lowry’s 25th anniversary programme which will feature annual commissions from international ...

On the face of it disparate in their practices, if this year’s nominees can be said to share a commonality beyond their ...

But I should park these poetical meanderings and tell you about ‘Legends and Lore’, the 2025/26 theme running through the ...

Stow is a great place and long may it flourish. Manchester needs all the wonderful lunch places it can sustain against the ...

Black Sabbath: The Ballet is at Lowry, Salford until October 11, 2025. For more information, click here .

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 ...

It’s been 20 years since BBC Three debuted Ideal, the left-field sitcom written by Graham Duff. Made at the Beeb’s (now gone) studios on Manchester’s Oxford Road, for seven series it starred Johnny ...

As a student of literature picking up a modern novel involving interwar lavish consumerism in the West, I’m bracing myself for something rigidly estranged from the likes of Hemingway and Fitzgerald.

There were other Barbie movies. Before the one that didn’t quite live up to the existential dread promised by its trailer, there was an entire parade of them, each an incremental step forward in the ...

For those of us – and there are a fair few – with Irish ancestry, cornerstones of Irish culture hold a special appeal. Dancing at Lughnasa, Brian Friel’s poignant play inspired by his own family’s ...

It’s July 2025, the hottest day of the year, and I’m clearing out my desk in the OperaWatch office at Northern Soul Towers. After 12 years as Northern Soul’s Opera Correspondent, I’m stepping down.