I moved house earlier this year. While my new place is what estate agents euphemistically refer to as ‘a fixer-upper’, in ...

Fittingly, it’s been there from the start. Salford’s Lowry theatre and gallery is celebrating its silver anniversary, and ...

I’ll be honest, I wasn’t optimistic about my new northern plot. Much of it consists of lawn, trimmed with narrow borders that, back in February, looked lacklustre and unlikely to put on a show once ...

Walking into How I Am Monument feels like entering the excavation site of a 21st-century technocratic pharaoh.

Remember, Somewhere is their first exhibition at the Baltic and their first institutional show together. Their canvases ...

Hamlet Hail to the Thief is a co-production between the Royal Shakespeare Company and Factory International, running at Aviva ...

Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake is at Sheffield Lyceum until May 17, 2025. For more information, click here .

The impetus behind Clarion House was taken up by the Nelson branch of the Independent Labour Party (ILP – later one of the ...

Things aren’t always going to be this way. What is taken for granted today may be half-forgotten tomorrow.

The Lowry in Salford Quays is 25-years-old this year. It decided to celebrate its community outreach programme, one of the ...

When I was asked to review the 18th anniversary menu at Vermilion, self-styled as ‘Manchester’s most glamorous restaurant’, I thought two things: (a) after 18 years, why haven’t I heard of it? And (b) ...

Manchester’s comedy scene is thriving, with new nights springing up all the time. What’s remarkable, though, is that one city centre comedy night is fast approaching its 30 th anniversary, and many ...