“It’s a bit of a risk, coming to the theatre,” Lauryn Redding tells us at the start of the show.

Manchester’s Palace Theatre is set to reopen in August with a production of the musical Hairspray at full capacity, but

Visually Back to the Future the Musical is spectacular. The show arrived in Manchester bringing the hit film onto the stage and into the 21st century.

The country’s already had its fill of red, blue and yellow battle buses driving up and down the UK.

Dirty Dancing: The Classic Story on Stage opened at Manchester’s Palace Theatre – delivering on its promise of ‘sensationally sexy dancing’, with the rest of the show offering an entertaining mix of theatre, dance and comedy.

Dirty Dancing – The Classic Story on Stage visits the Palace Theatre in Manchester next month.

For a musical about a boy band, it is sisterhood that steals the show as the Take That musical comes to The Lowry this January.

The 80s are back in full force in Manchester – but for one week only.

Fame has been a cultural phenomenon since the 1980s.

Sting’s talents have led him to success in the world of film and music – but that doesn’t necessarily mean he’s capable of penning a hit musical.

It’s never a given that a movie-turned-musical will find any degree of success.