Words are not the only language. At best, they’re only half the story, the part which can be reduced to the calculus of ...

Just buy some of Shakespeare North’s reasonably priced tickets, and go. What you will find is the Handlebards, with whom this ...

On the face of it disparate in their practices, if this year’s nominees can be said to share a commonality beyond their ...

Stow is a great place and long may it flourish. Manchester needs all the wonderful lunch places it can sustain against the ...

Square Eyes is part of the Lowry’s 25th anniversary programme which will feature annual commissions from international ...

But I should park these poetical meanderings and tell you about ‘Legends and Lore’, the 2025/26 theme running through the ...

Black Sabbath: The Ballet is at Lowry, Salford until October 11, 2025. For more information, click here .

Any, Body, Home, the current group show of work by female artists at Warrington Museum & Art Gallery, doesn’t make it easy for the visitor. While a significant part of the exhibition is contained ...

There were other Barbie movies. Before the one that didn’t quite live up to the existential dread promised by its trailer, there was an entire parade of them, each an incremental step forward in the ...

If Arthur Conan Doyle were alive today he’d be a very rich man. The enduring popularity of Sherlock Holmes attests to that. Although given the way that brands guard their marques, we probably wouldn’t ...

Unlike some of their more feted peers, The Wedding Present never quite infiltrated the mass consciousness, neither by wearing holes in the comfort blanket conviviality of Wogan on early evening ...

Russell T Davies, it’s fair to say, has the gift of the gab. A master of the press release soundbite and its carnivalesque come-hither call, more importantly he’s an eloquent and impassioned disputant ...