There’s a case to be made that High School Musical is to Grease what Fifty Shades of Grey is to Twilight – a piece of fan ...

Nell Gwynn is at Grosvenor Park Open Air Theatre until September 6, 2026. For more information, click here.

The city is a particle accelerator, a vast experiment, endlessly generating chance and clutter. In its relentless promise of more and better excitement, its hectic pursuit of the unreachable now, it ...

They say never meet your heroes. But I’m about to interview the queen of the uncanny, Lucie McKnight Hardy, so it’s unavoidable. Night Babies is a perfect conjuring of folk horror that draws you deep ...

My first paid gig in years, a cheque in the bank, and the money burning a hole in my pocket. It being Friday, I head for a fish place, and the best place for fish on a Friday in Manchester is ...

It’s a tough gig for a high-street French brasserie chain to cater for a critic freshly back from a long weekend in Nice. I am a proud Liverpudlian for whom one of life’s simple consumerist pleasures ...

On a showery Saturday afternoon with the sound of thunder echoing in my ears, I set off to Manchester’s Red Bank to sample the Japanese sake bar and eatery, Suzume. Kasia is a connoisseur and ...

For those interested in history and espionage, Antonia Senior’s highly compelling new book, Stalin’s Apostles, is a fascinating, authoritative and gripping account of the most extraordinary spy ring ...

Driving into Blackburn in May, the election aftermath still spills from the airwaves, the tremors of the night before continuing to unfold as presenters attempt to narrate a country shifting beneath ...

In the run-up to Christmas 2023, Molly McGuinness came down with tonsillitis. Before long, she was rushed to hospital with chest pains. The infection had developed into a rare case of Lemierre’s ...

It’s the most famous heckle in history. Around 9.30 on the evening of May 17, 1966, a disgruntled punter on the balcony shouted “Judas!” at Bob Dylan, towards the end of the second half of the ...

Chicken is having a moment. I’m not sure the birds themselves would agree, but there are reportedly huge queues outside the Manchester chicken parm shops in Burnage, Korean fried chicken is everywhere ...