Entertainment

Internationally celebrated choreographer Hofesh Shechter and his company displayed a striking piece of apocalyptic dance performance on Wednesday evening at HOME.

The Vamps continued their Four Corners Tour in Manchester over the weekend, playing to a sold out crowd of their adoring fans.

As part of the year-long programme Celebrating Women in Global Cinema, HOME ran a season this May focusing on women’s activism and involvement in trade unionism: Women, Organise!

There is not a whiff of the outdated mental health stereotypes within leagues of Josephine Decker’s Madeline’s Madeline: a powerful and uniquely illustrative portrait of a 16-year-old living with mental health concerns that’s finally arrived in UK theatres and showing at HOME.

On the eve of the release of their second album, Charly Bliss played a giddy and joyous set in Manchester’s Night People, making the small venue their own.

The 1992 movie ‘Death Becomes Her’, starring Meryl Streep, Bruce Willis and Goldie Hawn, has been long-regarded as a queer classic but a drag parody of the film at HOME turned the well-loved flick into an even camper affair – and we couldn’t get enough.

In a more than worthy tribute to an astounding artist, The Untold Orchestra and a number of Manchester’s most remarkable vocalists performed rearrangements of Nina Simone’s material to mark a deluge of anniversaries.

World War Two is over, and the soldiers have finally come home. In this colourful, spirited rendition of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, romantic shenanigans provide a welcome relief for the battle-weary characters and delight the audience.

Adrenaline and diesel combine for an action-packed two days of monster trucks at Manchester Arena this weekend.

Spider-like and wretched, Tom Mothersdale’s Richard III practically crawls across the stage. Every body movement signals his grotesque nature.

When a gobby hairdresser, Rita, enrols on an open university course and is assigned to an initially less than willing tutor, Frank, the pair are clueless as to the lessons they are destined to teach each other.