“Amazing to think Mary Shelley was only 18 when she started writing Frankenstein isn’t it?”

It’s two years since Guys and Dolls was last performed in Manchester.

There are eight tables in the middle of the stage. Each table has six people on. Some are brave members of the audience. Actors were interspersed throughout.

Jo Davies’ fervently witty production of Twelfth Night at Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre will leave you with throbbing cheeks after an evening of smiling and laughter.

A group of women, fleeing across the Mediterranean, are seeking sanctuary in Greece…

London 2012 Paralympics opening ceremony co-director Jenny Sealey brings The House of Bernarda Alba, Spanish playwright Federico Garcia Lorca’s 1936 masterpiece, to Manchester’s unique Royal Exchange Theatre from February 3-25.

Political rhetoric and the negative stigmatization surrounding mental health are set to be explored in a new show by a Bolton-born theatre-maker.

Are the reasons behind male suicide ‘many and varied’ or does the cause of such tragedies lie primarily in the fact that men are ‘no longer the provider’ for their families?

Maxine Peake’s performance in The Skriker is one that will live long in the memory.

Too Much Information is a new audio walk through the city and is the brainchild of Blast Theory, a group of interactive storytellers based in Brighton, who have teamed up with the Royal Exchange Theatre.

To celebrate LGBT History Month, MM talk to Manchester’s Toby Whitehouse, co-founder and programme director of Gaydio, about coming out and what progress the city still has to make towards equality.