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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

When Nella, daughter of super-rich American Theodore Racksole, can’t get a steak and a bottle of beer for her birthday dinner at the luxurious Grand Babylon Hotel, her father buys the hotel. She gets ...

‘In folk horror, the soil beneath our feet is seismically unstable’, writes Hollie Starling in her introduction to Bog People: A Working-Class Anthology of Folk Horror. What a prescient collection ...

Nancy Collantine is a Manchester-based painter and printmaker who responds to themes of empathy and environment and works in mixed media figuration and abstraction. Nancy was a finalist in the 2018 ...