Opera North: Orpheus at The Lowry

Step through the wardrobe and experience an icy, magic and mystical adventure.

David Olusoga explores how three particular weapons shaped the world in A Gun Through Time at the Lowry.

Reckless Sleepers are back with a mind-bending piece of visual theatre where rooms mirror each other, logic unravels, and identities blur.

Bold, sensory and inclusive, Chisato Minamimura’s solo performance explores women’s histories through tattooing, sound and movement,

0161 Studios presents a phenomenal Hip Hop dance show.

Three fearless Viking girls, one oblivious Chieftain, trolls, monsters, Viking longhouses and an alarming amount of craziness… welcome to Three Little Vikings at The Lowry, an incredible adventure for small…

Let yourself be transported back to an ancient time with historian and author Mary Beard as she explores the secret histories of Rome.

A choose-your-own-adventure experience set inside a retro-style gaming cabinet, created by DARKFIELD.

This autumn, the boundary-pushing theatre company DARKFIELD brings not one but three of their acclaimed shows to Manchester

This autumn Rambert join forces with boundary-pushing French collective (LA)HORDE to deliver an irresistible triple bill of dance.

Emerging from a four-year crucible of creative tension and personal reckoning, Brooklyn shoegazers DIIV return to Leeds.

With sardonic wit, towering hooks and distortion dialled high, Blondshell lands at New Century this September, armed with album number two.

Part prayer, part protest, part dancefloor séance – Lyra Pramuk brings her otherworldly live show to The White Hotel.

Call Super and Objekt, two of electronic music’s most distinctive voices, join forces for an extended back-to-back.

Hulme’s Green Island Festival brings a three-part series of events to Hulme Garden Centre and the iconic NIAMOS.

Smart, eccentric, and gleefully out of step with trends – Bristol quartet Sans Froid bring their tangled, piano-led art-rock to Leeds.

Blackburn’s Confessional Festival turns ten, celebrating with two days of live music set beneath the stained glass and vaulted stonework of Holy Trinity Church.

Part post-punk grit, part gothic spectacle, Dog Race are a strange and compelling presence in the UK’s alt underground.