In its 20th anniversary year, the co-directors of Manchester Literature Festival, Cathy Bolton and Sarah-Jane Roberts, talk ...

Ruth Berkoff appeared at the Women in Comedy Festival in Manchester. For more information on The Beauty of Being Herd, click ...

In essence a waking biography unmoored by dream, Balkan Erotic Epic is a singular, captivating, discomfiting, uneven and ...

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

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 ...

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 from Birmingham Royal Ballet brings together classical ballet and the music of Black Sabbath, the pioneering heavy metal band formed in Birmingham in 1968. It’s an ambitious ...

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 ...

And so to the hottest dining ticket in town, Bangkok Diners Club, upstairs in the Edinburgh Castle pub in Manchester’s Ancoats. It’s a new venture from husband and wife team Ben and Bo Humphreys from ...

Whenever the English gather, the talk soon comes round to the best ‘full English’. Along with the ubiquitous Sunday Roast, this collection of eggs, bacon, sausage and beans with various add-ons such ...