Endearing in a more straightforward way is Gemma Chua-Tran’s Willow, in her own words a former ‘prisoner of Gay Pop’, now ...

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is at Grosvenor Park Open Air Theatre, until August 31, 2025. For more information, click ...

Any, Body, Home, the current group show of work by female artists at Warrington Museum & Art Gallery, doesn’t make it easy ...

At Liverpool Arab Arts Festival, they are read in the Arabic they were written in, with the English translation in back ...

She was lauded as an exceptional painter. Now a new exhibition highlights something entirely different: rag rugs. Tullie House in Carlisle is hosting Winifred Nicholson: Cumbrian Rag Rugs. Revealing ...

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.

May Payne, a singer/songwriter based in Manchester, is an intricate painter of vulnerability, trauma, and love. Nowhere is this more evident than in her first EP, a radically vulnerable offering of ...

As a man who, throughout my teens and student years in Manchester, argued passionately that The Who were simply the best live band in the world and that their 70s’ albums were pretty close to perfect ...

More than a decade after the modernist society’s first intervention at the site, staging an uninvited artist’s residency, it has returned to the scene of what it then described as a crime to organise ...

This month, Lincoln has been treated to Scarborough Macabre, an off-season sojourn to the seaside in which artist Melody Phelan-Clark “regurgitates the strange and sinister nature of the British coast ...

Music Review: Bonnie Raitt, 02 Apollo ManchesterWhen Bonnie Raitt was a young girl, she was enthralled by the power and charisma of such blues and folk greats as John Lee Hooker and Sippie Wallace, ...

Review: A Streetcar Named Desire, The Crucible, SheffieldI usually write theatre reviews the minute I walk through the door. It’s all still there in my head, sharp and bright, every detail could make ...