From Verona to Hathersage Road as Romeo and Juliet is set to debut at...

The historic Victoria Baths to be filled with 86,000 gallons of water for a performance of Romeo and Juliet this September. Shakespeare's play of...

Robert Powell returns to his home town of Salford as Poirot

Salford-born Robert Powell has been cast as Hercule Poirot in Agatha Christie’s Murder On Air, which plays at The Lowry for one week only...

Rochdale Feelgood festival

It's that time of year. Just as one festival is ending, another is beginning and this weekend, it's the turn of Rochdale. Now in it's...

Joshua Brookes and the missing grooms Manchester Cathedral Saturday 30 August from 12...

Chaplain Joshua Brookes found himself in the middle of an explosion in the population during the Industrial Revolution. There was a huge demand...

Secret theatre on the way to Manchester

Secret Theatre, which features four new plays from four of the UK’s most exciting playwrights, arrives at Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre this October. Fresh from...

Manchester’s Modernist explore the world of TV from the North

In the third of a short season of events at Manchester’s Central Library, Eddy Rhead co founder and co-director of The Manchester Modernist Society...

Operation Market Garden

Manchester's Military History Society's next talk will be all about Operation Market Garden. It takes place seventy years since the Second World War's daring Allied...

Pendle Walking festival

It's the time of the year to dust off those walking boots and head to Lancashire's witch country over the annual Pendle Walking festival. Now...

Football writers festival heads to Manchester

Manchester's National Football museum will be hosting three events as part of the Manchester Football Writing Festival. The festival celebrates football in the written word,...

Saved from Tomato Ketchup-Two rare Lowry paintings go on display

Two of LS Lowry’s pictures showing views of The Thames at Greenwich are to go on display at The Lowry in Salford, minus their...