Johnny James

A record that began with rice cookers and an easel is now coming to Salford. Trust the process.

Sir Stephen Hough returns to Manchester, where his musical life began, with a recital built around a deceptively simple idea: the piano miniature.

30 years after the IRA bomb, a new Royal Exchange play traces three centuries of Manchester history as it plays out through individual lives.

The Untold Orchestra bring musical theatre hits to RNCM’s Young Explorers, opening orchestral music into something looser, more collective and fun.

In this world premiere, Hilary Mantel’s audacious short story becomes a darkly comic psychological thriller about power, class and political anger.

Out Here at Castlefield Gallery shifts environmental questions out of the abstract and back into the natural materials beneath our feet.

A fascinating archival exhibition uncovers the forgotten stories of people who have helped shape The Portico Library’s 220-year history.

Michaela Yearwood-Dan’s first UK institutional exhibition layers painting, ceramics and sound to explore liberation across personal and institutional histories.

Alan Jones’s photography exhibition in Chorlton explores fragments of impossibly large systems through images of discarded objects with long afterlives.

Two songs in, Manchester’s MLEKO are already building a cult following, blending beauty and abrasion to devastating effect.

Belle Chen drifts through imagined landscapes, blending piano, electronics and improvisation into something at once precise and mysterious.

Four of contemporary music’s most exciting female composers come together in Manchester Collective’s latest daring programme.