The Southport arts venue launches From A Distance, a three-day music festival featuring performances from Peggy Seeger, Edwina Hayes and Police Dog Hogan. Next week the BBC’s Bob Harris and...
We talk to the director of the first all-black production of All My Sons, which runs at the Royal Exchange this month as part of Manchester Weekender. As the Manchester...
With new musical direction and a darker satirical edge, the theatre’s latest production shows the hit jazz musical in a new light. We’re all familiar with Chicago, the tale of...
Sixty events, one teepee, a few sackbuts, plus a host of the biggest names in jazz means one thing: the Jazz Festival is back. A certain city north of here...
The festival stages eleven new productions over eight days – including a performance at Manchester Central Fire Station. Manchester boasts one of the country’s most exciting new writing and fringe...
The Lake District’s number one music festival features Johnny Marr, Primal Scream, British Sea Power – and a rather spectacular setting. Over the last few years, small-scale boutique festivals and...
Adapting any book for the stage is a tough call – but it’s all the harder when said novel spans cultures, continents and some very big issues. Adapting any novel...
Sex, drugs and politics: a new site-specific play tackles two huge chunks of Manchester’s history. Typical. You wait ages for a piece of site-specific theatre inspired by the Peterloo Massacre...
Olivier award-nominated actor Cush Jumbo talks to us about her role in Ibsen’s classic play – and her abiding affection for the Royal Exchange. It’s not uncommon to hear an...
Fifty museums and galleries stage late-night events in a dizzying celebration of art and culture. “Legacy” is a word that gets bandied about a fair bit these days, especially in...
One of the 20th century’s greatest plays balances “shock and laughter, hilarity and heartbreak” 45 years on. After his script for a comedy about a couple caring for a physically...
A tiny gig in a tiny gallery heralds a new direction for a Northern Quarter art space. The Richard Goodall Gallery, currently gracing two locations in the never-unfashionable Northern Quarter,...
