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

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

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 ...

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 .

Things aren’t always going to be this way. What is taken for granted today may be half-forgotten tomorrow. Victor Wedderburn’s Frontline 1984/85, his resonant and empathetic exhibition at Bradford’s ...

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) ...

It’s certainly easy to see why Boys from the Blackstuff has been adapted for the stage. Alan Bleasdale’s 1982 TV serial made an almighty impact and is still remembered today as a vivid portrait of ...