Matilda, who travelled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village, finally opened in Manchester this week as the Royal Shakespeare Company’s award-winning adaptation of Roald Dahl’s 1988 book came to the Palace Theatre.

The Return of the Soldier is compelling proof that, as the centennial anniversaries of the First World War draw to a close, there are still new stories and new perspectives of the Great War to be found.

If you want to see a farce, there are no companies better than Mischief Theatre.

Peppa Pig is not a rock star, but she’s up there with the best of them when it comes to drawing a crowd.

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

Fame has been a cultural phenomenon since the 1980s.

“Life is too short not to be something you love,” Kiefer Sutherland declares on what is surely a midsummer night in a sweltering Albert Hall.

Mayor Andy Burnham has announced radical plans to strengthen Greater Manchester’s music scene.

It was an evening of unbridled emotion on the opening night of War Horse at The Lowry.

Back in August 2017, the internet went into meltdown as Taylor Swift wiped her social media slate clean. Eventually, after three long days of Blank Space, she posted a grainy, flickering video to Instagram of an ominous black snake.

After its nationally acclaimed debut in 2016, Cathy Marston’s ballet adaptation of Charlotte Brontë’s masterpiece, Jane Eyre, returned this week in an expanded form to The Lowry.