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 ...

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 .

‘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 ...

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 ...

I have always wanted to visit The Modernist. Along the row of stylish windows lining Manchester’s Porter Street, its viridescent lintels frame a collection of appealingly designed covers and stylish ...

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 ...

Some English supporters at the recent international match were booing the Andorran national anthem. I doubt most of them know where exactly Andorra is, let alone what it is like and what it stands for ...