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.
Everyman’s new cinema is hosting a festive fiesta. I don’t know about you, but there’s only one kind of marathon I’ll be partaking in this Christmas. To celebrate the opening of its swish new Alt...
2019 is going to be a good year for 90’s kids! Nineties boyband Backstreet Boys will perform a series of arena shows as part of a world tour which will see them perform – and they’re starting at the Ma...
Hold on to your frocks – because the Spice Girls are BACK! After years of off-again-on-again reunion plans, the Spice Girls – sans Posh Spice – are reuniting and embarking on a 12-date stadium tour of the UK in summer...
Smells like cheeseburgers and teen spirit. The world’s finest (and only, surely?) Elvis-fronted tribute to Nirvana is coming to Manchester. From the bowels of Disgraceland, Rock & Roll icons of the afterlife h...
Manchester’s Victoria Baths is hosting the ultimate Halloween cinema experience. The glorious grade II listed swimming pool and Turkish Baths complex has partnered up with The Village Screen to present three night...
I love this plan! Escape the trick-or-treaters this year with a spooktacular cinema experience at Manchester’s Spinningfields. The Range will host a special screening of the first Ghostbusters (the original, of co...
Let’s just pretend they were made by Mrs Weasley. Photo: Primark You could say Molly Weasley started the Christmas Jumper trend. Every year without fail she would present her brood with a hand-knitted jumper, embl...
Say bye bye to the bees. by beeinthecitymcr The colony of giant bee sculptures took over the streets of Manchester for an art trail unlike any other. Each of the 101 super-sized Bees was designed by local artists and ce...
‘Owl’ will be revealed. Photo: Netflix If you haven’t seen The Staircase then honestly, I’m a little disappointed in you. A precursor to Making a Murderer, the true crime documentary follows the...
Here we go again… Photo: Universal Pictures It was only a matter of time, it was the number one film with the number one soundtrack after all. And with that in mind, UK cinemas will be screening sing-along version...