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 ...
On the face of it disparate in their practices, if this year’s nominees can be said to share a commonality beyond their ...
In essence a waking biography unmoored by dream, Balkan Erotic Epic is a singular, captivating, discomfiting, uneven and ...
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 ...
The first time I went to the Manchester Literature Festival, I bumped into Lady Antonia Fraser ...
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 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 ...
When Yorkshire-born Kieran Hodgson joined the cast of BBC Scotland’s hit comedy series Two Doors Down, he decided to go “all in” and relocate with his partner to Glasgow. “I haven’t done a show for ...
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.