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 ...

It is early in the season to be feeling Christmassy. Yet Anne-Marie Casey’s adaptation of Little Women, the stage equivalent ...

Roots in the Sky, a group exhibition at Manchester’s HOME curated by and featuring Tunji Adeniyi-Jones, offers a seductive ...

Between Two Points - Andy Murray charts the remarkable story of the song, and Tranmer and Quigley's band The Montgolfier ...

Grace Darling was the lighthouse keeper’s daughter on Longstone, one of the Farne Islands off the stunning Northumberland coast. One September morning in 1838, she and her father rowed out to rescue ...

Whether it’s the celebratory verses lit in honour of the late dub poet Benjamin Zephaniah, or a determination to counter the ...

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 ...