Johnny James

The Science and Industry Museum is going galactic this Easter, turning the spring holidays into an adventure through space, science and silliness.

British-German collective fish in a dress bring a dark, unsettling show tracing hysteria from 19th-century spectacle to today’s misogyny.

In this one-woman portrait of living with OCD, Phoebe’s obsession with lists spirals into something darker.

Arriving from an acclaimed Edinburgh Fringe run, Nation is a dark, unsettling fable about nationhood and identity.

Pixies bring two nights of feral alternative rock to Aviva Studios this May, marking 40 years of the band

Quiet introspection and cathartic eruptions – the mysterious kids in the corner of the Brixton Windmill scene bring their new album Somersaults to YES.

A new live staging of Bronski Beat’s The Age of Consent revisits a landmark queer pop album through contemporary voices.

Daniel Avery’s played in Manchester countless times over the last decade, but never quite like this – in an empty Edwardian swimming pool, beneath monumental installation art.

For a few weeks this spring, the emptied Gala Pool at Victoria Baths will be transformed by Helios, a monumental touring installation by Luke Jerram.

For its first Storyhouse Originals production of 2026, the Chester theatre presents a bold new staging of Macbeth, directed and adapted by Jamie Sophia Fletcher.

Factory Spotlight hands the mic to After the Applause for a free live edition celebrating the launch of season two of the Manchester podcast.

Creativity, making and innovation have long shaped Salford. City of Making traces that legacy from industrial roots to today’s artists, designers and creative technologists.