As ever HOME have plenty of highlights scattered across their February-September schedule from the world of film, theatre and visual art.

The Believers Are But Brothers is sending a thought-provoking message at HOME, Manchester.

Most of us will be familiar with the Disney cartoon, but the Birmingham Royal Ballet’s production of Aladdin is an even greater technicolour experience.

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.

Northern Ballet’s highly-acclaimed production of Casanova is returning to Manchester – and this time it’s coming with a camera crew in tow.

Dirty Dancing firmly set the stage on fire as it returned to the Palace Theatre in Manchester.

Oscar-nominated actress, Dame Janet Suzman, delivers a poignantly hypnotic performance as Rose, the eponymous character in HOME’s timely revival of Martin Sherman’s 1999 play of the same name.

Award-winning actor Dean Elliott boldly stepped away from the bright lights of the West End stage pen to pen his own musical masterpiece: The The Simon and Garfunkel Story.

“There’s no point in reflection,” Dame Janet Suzman explains with a wry smile of healthy experience on her face.

The much-anticipated Jack Rooke: Good Grief is playing at HOME in Manchester.

Theatre director Sally Cookson is bringing a stage production of La Strada to The Lowry in Salford.