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 ...

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: ...

Coarse has a good selection of wine by the glass, and a bottle of Nyetimber which, at £55, has to be the resto fizz bargain ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Black Sabbath – The Ballet from Birmingham Royal Ballet brings together classical ballet and the music of Black Sabbath, the pioneering heavy metal band formed in Birmingham in 1968. It’s an ambitious ...

As a student of literature picking up a modern novel involving interwar lavish consumerism in the West, I’m bracing myself for something rigidly estranged from the likes of Hemingway and Fitzgerald.

Words are not the only language. At best, they’re only half the story, the part which can be reduced to the calculus of thought. The strength of Marina Abramović’s artistic practice is her fearless ...