Entertainment

Hackney-based band Rudimental will be delivering their drum and bass talent to Manchester in just over a week’s time as part of their second UK tour.

Grime artist Bugzy Malone will headline two shows at Mayfield as part of Manchester International Festival’s pre-Factory shows.

Jorja Smith brought an array of soul, blues and jazz as she touched down for her first of two dates at a sold-out Albert Hall in Manchester.

There is an inscription on the main staircase at the Royal Northern College of Music that reads: “Does originality actually exist or do we all simply build from what we have seen and heard?”

A free exhibition is taking place celebrating Manchester’s rock music legends from the dawn of punk to present day.

British and French actors will descend on Manchester later this month to lead the cast of Antic Disposition’s Henry V.

New to the Warehouse Project’s enviable array of lineups this year is a select number of day-into-night shows – playing from 2 until midnight in what will be the last year at their celebrated Store Street venue.

The sofa in the green room of The Comedy Store is leopard print. It’s a loud vibrant fabric, unashamedly honest. Very much like scouse comedian Adam Rowe.

Let Me Look At You explores the diametrically opposed relationship between two generations of gay men – between the narrator (Mark Pinkosh) and the eponymous ‘you’, a young man in his late 20s.

The National Theatre’s innovative adaptation of Macbeth successfully is reimagining a Shakespeare classic at The Lowry.

Lost Dog’s production of Juliet and Romeo is utterly sublime.