This is the first time that ENO has performed an opera at The Bridgewater Hall, which this year is celebrating its 30th ...

The Ladies Football Club is at Crucible Theatre, Sheffield, until March 28, 2026. For more information, follow this link: ...

At the centre sits a circular playing area occupied only by a bar. Pumps draped in towels, stools stacked upside down, waiting to open. Two carpeted runways lead into the circle, creating a tight ...

War of the Worlds is at the Playhouse, Liverpool until March 7, 2026 and on tour. For more information, click here.

The history of Joy Division and New Order has been told so often that it’s hardened into one of Manchester’s defining narratives, both a starting point and a long-lasting presence. Mayer Nissim’s Joy ...

What’s that you say? You don’t know much about opera and you don’t think it’s for you? Well, let ...

It smells the same, but looks different. The famous Power Hall at Manchester’s Science & Industry Museum – that warehouse of steam-powered engines, heaving hydraulics and giant trains – has reopened, ...

Perhaps the greatest difficulty facing any reviewer of the poetry of John Cooper Clarke is resisting the temptation simply to quote all the best bits. The difficulty is further compounded by there ...

Lost Souls, the debut album by Cheshire trio Doves, was released 25 years ago. That quarter of a century has been a hell of a ride for the band, made up of brothers Andy and Jez Williams and frontman ...

As we approach the end of 2025, we’re looking back at the things that have brought us immense comfort during the year. For the team at Northern Soul, books were once again a source of great joy, and ...

To misquote Jane Austen: ‘Prizes are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.’ The prose stylist against whom all who have come after must measure ...

For the British Textile Biennial 2025, artists and makers filled spaces – which previously, directly or indirectly, powered Lancashire’s cotton industry – with stories of innovation in textile ...