Manchester Writing School's Charlotte Shevchenko Knight writes about her debut anthology, shortlisted for a number of awards.

Until recently, Colin Hoult was doing very nicely indeed as a character-based comic and actor.

Over the past three years, the Town Hall has been the subject of a multi-million pound restoration funded by The National ...

The apocalypse, Hollywood assures us, will be long and loud and boring, orchestrated and over-determined. In whatever shape ...

Last Thursday in Manchester, with the wind howling and the rain falling so heavily that mass evacuation by ark seemed likely, the Hallé Orchestra opened its 2018/19 season under its guest conductor ...

At The Firehouse, the door opened and I was met with waft of warm air and a friendly welcome. Shown to my table, the interior was larger than I’d imagined – spacious and open with a DJ spinning ...

Many a Liverpudlian who has never darkened the door of the Philharmonic Hall will recognise the face of Domingo Hindoyan, the ...

You might call it a choral history. Breach Theatre, however, styles its current production as a documentary musical.

Northern Soul’s Steve Slack headed to the British Ceramics Biennial (BCB) as it returned to Stoke-on-Trent, the home of British ceramics, for its fifth edition. The six week international ceramics ...

It’s the beginning of March which can only mean one thing – it’s time for this month’s Northern Soul Podcast. Presenter and Producer Lucy McNamara is back with another ear-pleasing episode ...

In the build-up to CBBC’s inaugural three-day Summer Social at Croxteth Country Park, much of the chatter on the local parental grapevine was about one subject: cost. At £30.80 for a day ticket, ...

It seems a strange thing to do, on a boiling hot summer’s evening, to come in out of the bright day and ensconce oneself in a dark theatre, along with hundreds of other people, to watch a play set ...