In A Former Cotton Exchange, The Present Collides with The Past in an Award-Winning...

Winner of the 2018 Alfred Fagon Award Rockets and Blue Lights is an astonishing new play from one of the UK’s most pioneering playwrights...

The UK’s leading biographers urge Brits to put pen to paper for their life...

As millions of us are now stuck at home, this time comes as an opportunity to dial back and tune into one of the...

Homemakers reaches 34 countries during lockdown

WHILE their usual Manchester audience have been in lockdown, multi-arts centre HOME have expanded their online audience internationally through the Homemakers series of commissions,...

Peterloo orchestral production up for esteemed Ivor Novello award

A major orchestral production about the Peterloo Massacre co-written by a Manchester Metropolitain University poet and librettist has been shortlisted for an Ivor Novello...

Leigh Local Exchange Ambassadors Celebrate the Return of Their LocalTALE Playwriting Competition

The Royal Exchange Theatre and its Local exchange Ambassador Group in Leigh are delighted to announce that the LocalTALE Playwriting Competition is back and now open for entries. Launched last year, the...

Manchester’s Inaugural ‘Festival of Libraries’ Announced

Manchester UNESCO City of Literature’s inaugural Festival of Libraries, a brand-new county-wide celebration of Greater Manchester’s 133 libraries, will take place from Wednesday 9th...

Live family theatre is back at Waterside this summer

Waterside has finally reopened its doors after 14 months and is delighted to offer a fantastic mix of family theatre and outdoor entertainment for...

Kampus partners with Manchester Pride to announce the Freedom Exhibition

Kampus partners with Manchester Pride to announce the Freedom Exhibition, a special audio-visual gallery in its neighbourhood garden. The installation consists of 11 'living portraits',...

Manchester Jewish Museum announces bold new event programme in its newly restored synagogue

Manchester Jewish Museum announces a bold new event season in their newly restored former synagogue. This beautiful space, steeped in Manchester’s rich Jewish history,...

Northern Lights Parade will Light up Hyde this weekend

A GIANT lantern in the colours of the aurora borealis – the famous northern lights – will lead the way through Hyde when Tameside...