Until recently, Colin Hoult was doing very nicely indeed as a character-based comic and actor.

There is a definite chill in the air. As the song goes, “all the leaves are brown and the sky is grey”. Winter is coming! And ...

Manchester Writing School's Charlotte Shevchenko Knight writes about her debut anthology, shortlisted for a number of awards.

The apocalypse, Hollywood assures us, will be long and loud and boring, orchestrated and over-determined. In whatever shape ...

Over the past three years, the Town Hall has been the subject of a multi-million pound restoration funded by The National ...

You might call it a choral history. Breach Theatre, however, styles its current production as a documentary musical.

Many a Liverpudlian who has never darkened the door of the Philharmonic Hall will recognise the face of Domingo Hindoyan, the ...

From the symbolic solidarity of black and white youths to the punk power of local heroes, Buzzcocks, the vibrant resistance to the rise of 1970s racism by 40,000 people in Manchester on July 15, 1978 ...

Viewed decades later, the sleeve of Unknown Pleasures anticipates the after-effects of the vinyl it enfolds: its image the radiation signature of a star long dead, its transmissions still detectable ...

What have Gypsy Rose Lee, the legendary queen of burlesque, the poet W.H. Auden and the composer Benjamin Britten got in common? They shared a house in Middagh Street in Brooklyn in the early 1940s ...

Check out this beautiful Northern Coast photo gallery by Paul Hunter.

Bernard Butler is at pains not to be misconstrued. This interest in (and poetic appreciation of) the bucolic is, by Butler‘s own acknowledgement, a more recent awakening; one which he describes in ...