Your guide to the arts in Manchester: exhibitions, plays and musicals, and concerts and gigs. Plus, discover what’s on at galleries, museums and cinemas across the city.
More than half of the UK’s grassroots failed to make a profit in 2025, with thousands of jobs lost and the national touring circuit shrinking to a handful of major cities. The latest annual report from the Music Ven...
Liverpudlian John Bishop has announced today (January 23) a major UK and Ireland tour for spring 2027 with a brand-new show, Let's Go Round Again. Hot on the heels of his sold-out, critically-acclaimed international ‘2...
Things are hotting up once again in the sphere of -world, and in times like this, it can be beneficial to take it all the way back to the start. Before he was a global phenomenon and starring in Hollywood , Harry Style...
The film awards season is in full swing, and the finishing line is now in sight, with all eyes now on the biggest prize, the 98th Academy Awards. The Oscar nominations are in (Thursday, January 22), and there are alread...
Dame Prue Leith has announced she will be leaving the baking television programme, The Great British Bake Off, after almost a decade as a judge on the show. The 86-year-old took over from Dame Mary Berry on the series b...
Popcorn at the ready...the films of 2026 are about to whisk us away on an emotional rollercoaster. From the giddy highs of seeing our favourite characters return in long-awaited sequels, to the euphoric swoop of falling...
BBC Arts has announced that Ian McKellen is set to portray Greater Manchester artist L.S. Lowry in the forthcoming Arena documentary, L.S. Lowry: The Unheard Tapes. Marking 50 years since Lowry’s death, the immersive fi...
We love a bit of here in Manchester, and with festivals celebrating all kinds of world cinema and genres, it's no surprise the UK's largest annual celebration of Japanese cinema is coming to town - plus, it's two brand...
Fancy an arts and culture reawakening? Well you're in luck, because some of the biggest theatre shows in the world are set to grace the Manchester stages this season - and that front row seat most definitely has our nam...
We all know that Manchester was a pretty Roman-heavy city, what with constant reminders in the form of architecture and, of course, , especially around the area. It might come as a surprise, then, that one piece of aut...