There’s an episode of the 90s hit comedy Father Ted where the lads on Craggy Island are visited by Father Damian Lennon, a young Dublin priest and pound-shop Liam Gallagher, who you know is rebellious ...

This brilliantly conceived prelude to Britten’s elementally powerful Peter Grimes (1945) is the invention of the production’s ...

Commonplace, the exhibition fleetingly inhabiting the modernist ‘s bijou exhibition space, doesn’t even cost 99p, but it ...

This is the first time that ENO has performed an opera at The Bridgewater Hall, which this year is celebrating its 30th ...

The Ladies Football Club is at Crucible Theatre, Sheffield, until March 28, 2026. For more information, follow this link: ...

War of the Worlds is at the Playhouse, Liverpool until March 7, 2026 and on tour. For more information, click here.

At the centre sits a circular playing area occupied only by a bar. Pumps draped in towels, stools stacked upside down, waiting to open. Two carpeted runways lead into the circle, creating a tight ...

The history of Joy Division and New Order has been told so often that it’s hardened into one of Manchester’s defining narratives, both a starting point and a long-lasting presence. Mayer Nissim’s Joy ...

Between the start of World War One and the end of World War Two, an estimated 90-100 million people died as a result of the conflicts or the regimes connected to them. Those 31 years were almost ...

It was a wet and cold winter lunchtime in Durham and I was hungry. A stranger in town, I had two hours to kill before my train so I consulted my trusty Harden’s Guide. The app has a useful search ...

Just after I arrive to interview Nick Vorstermans, the woodworker who has carved out a corner for beautiful things at Studio Critical: in Chorlton, a couple walk in and I witness an exchange that ...

What’s that you say? You don’t know much about opera and you don’t think it’s for you? Well, let ...