Singin’ in the Rain is at the Royal Exchange, Manchester until January 25, 2026. For more information, click here.

Alongside such ambiguous servings of kitchen sink grimness, there is a generous helping of kitsch and glam, notably the ...

When I meet Jason Wilsher-Mills at the Grundy, he greets me with a line that sets the tone for everything that follows: ...

It’s nose-bitingly cold outside, but the glowing red lights of the Copper Bar at Manchester’s Band on the Wall invite me in on this dark Tuesday evening. Having tried to warm up by power-walking ...

Cinderella is at Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot until January 10, 2026. For more information, click here .

Life is imitating art at Shakespeare North this festive season. Or perhaps it is the other way ...

The likely audience for this review, as for the Everyman’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Panto itself, broadly falls into two categories: regulars who want reassurance that it’s festive business as usual, and ...

When an opera production is revived 32 years after its premiere, does it still shine or is it covered by a layer of dust? The celebrated director Phyllida Lloyd’s production of La Bohéme for Opera ...

In August 1990, before she was even out of her teens, Alison Clarkson found herself fronting a top 10 single, namely the Beatmasters’ Hey DJ / I Can’t Dance (To That Music You’re Playing). Formerly ...

I first met Peter Cameron in a lecture theatre at Liverpool University in 1968. He had just arrived and needed somewhere to live. I had taken a lease on a large, near-derelict flat in Faulkner Square ...