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Always double check opening hours with the venue before making a special visit.
Always double check opening hours with the venue before making a special visit.
Max Frisch’s darkly comic play The Fire Raisers arrives courtesy of new Manchester company We Merry Dancers in co-production with HER Productions.
From £15.00
Flexible space in the heart of Ancoats. Studio space for offices, workshops or artistic space.
Le Social is a stylish wine bar and tasting room, focusing on exhibitions by local artists as well as natural wines, deli boards and continental plates.
Flawd is a neighbourhood wine bar based in Ancoats, from the team behind the wonderful Higher Ground dining experience.
Welcoming waterside bar in New Islington Marina, serving a wide array of carefully-curated cocktails.
Popular bakery in the Ancoats and New Islington area, specialising in sourdough bread and viennoiserie baked goods.
Cask in Ancoats opened in November 2018, it is the flashy sister bar to Cask on Liverpool Road.
This café in Ancoats is locally famed for its lunchtime deals and sandwiches
Started by artisan baker Russell Goodwin, Companio Bakery sells freshly-baked bread from a small unit in Manchester’s Ancoats.
Manchester’s Track Brewing Co Taproom is one of a handful of taprooms in the UK where the taproom is located in the brewery itself.
Cloudwater is a world-renowned brewery in Manchester. Set up in 2014 by Paul Jones and James Campbell, they’re a shining example of the best of modern British beer-makers.
Photography Studios in Ancoats hosting workshops and studios for hire.
Perfectly-formed, eye-catching small plates with a focus on environmentally-friendly practices.
Max Frisch’s darkly comic play The Fire Raisers arrives courtesy of new Manchester company We Merry Dancers in co-production with HER Productions.
From £15.00
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.
From £20.00
Journey from the sun-drenched shores of Jamaica to the cold, grey streets of 1940s London in Small Island.
From £16.50
Following a critically acclaimed London run, Bryony Kimmings brings her new, eco-confessional show Bog Witch to HOME.
A busy and brilliant season – expect fresh takes on classic texts, new writing and monstrously dazzling musicals, all happening in Liverpool.
From £11.00
James Graham’s explosive political thriller revisits 1970s anarchism in a drama whose tensions feel uncomfortably contemporary.
From £17.00
Waiting for Godot – Samuel Beckett’s revolutionary play that changed modern theatre forever – comes to Liverpool Everyman this spring.
From £13.00
This month’s live music picks move between ambitious new work, grassroots celebrations and a few memorable settings.
Spring has arrived, bringing with it al fresco dining and a rush of high-profile food and drink-related events in Manchester.
This month’s theatre highlights span dystopian classics, political thrillers and bold new opera.
Across Manchester and Salford, exhibitions are thinking hard about how things are made – and how materials carry stories.
Step away from the usual. Tours and activities that spark curiosity, inspire creativity and offer something refreshingly different.
Whether you’re after storybook theatre, museum wanderings or illusion-bending play spaces, there’s plenty to keep curiosity ticking through winter and beyond.
There's no shortage of great films out at the moment, whether you're looking for the latest blockbuster, that hot arthouse flick fresh from Cannes or a cosy classic.