It is often said that La Bohéme is the perfect ‘first opera’ to see. The Lowry’s website recommends it to seasoned ...
Opened in May 2024, Tom Barnes’ new Manchester gaff has already won a slew of awards. It received a Michelin star within a ...
Between Two Points - Andy Murray charts the remarkable story of the song, and Tranmer and Quigley's band The Montgolfier ...
Whether it’s the celebratory verses lit in honour of the late dub poet Benjamin Zephaniah, or a determination to counter the ...
It is early in the season to be feeling Christmassy. Yet Anne-Marie Casey’s adaptation of Little Women, the stage equivalent ...
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 ...
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 ...
Living in Manchester city centre affords glimpses into the habits of modern Britain. On my daily shop to the local supermarket, I watch the lunch choices of office workers as they queue. Sandwich, ...
When the city’s fluorescence, its frenetic denial of night, has started to lose its fascination, there will always be those who take flight to the imagined countryside. Habituated, however, to their ...
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 ...
To misquote Jane Austen: ‘Prizes are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.’ The prose stylist against whom all who have come after must measure ...
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.
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