Inside and outside the Grundy, casting aside the overcast, Blackpool is putting on its lippy and squeezing into its glad rags ...

The Shawshank Redemption is at the Playhouse, Liverpool until April 4, 2026, and on tour. For more information, click here .

Moreover, in the types of emporia they represent, they act as tidal markers of the ebb and flow of the high street, paper memorials to chains which are no longer extant. In this respect, an early ...

The synergy of the artists’ respective approaches working in array, Broken Ecologies exemplifies exactly the kind of soft power that demagogues both deny and decry. Their reaction is the opposite of ...

The Photo North festival was back for three packed days of talks, screenings and conversation woven around the Carriageworks in Leeds. On Saturday, Carolyn Mendelsohn opened the talks with an ...

If this is your bag, you’re going to love Mars Tapes, the last cassette shop in the UK (according to them, anyway). The shop ...

In a world brimming with artificial intelligence, the internet is awash with claims that 2026 is ...

A half-naked corpse on an empty stage. Some children find it and a group gathers to gawp, all without words or music. Who was this? How did he die? Did he belong to this community? What of the silence ...

My first visit to Shakespeare North in Prescot felt oddly close to home. It’s not far from where I grew up, though Prescot itself always felt like another world. Jim Cartwright’s Two has also ...

There’s a raw moment at the close of The Ladies Football Club which brings home how drastically life has changed in the last century. Violet, the instigator of a Sheffield munitions factory’s women’s ...

Just after I arrive to interview Nick Vorstermans, the woodworker who has carved out a corner for beautiful things at Studio Critical: in Chorlton, a couple walk in and I witness an exchange that ...

It was a wet and cold winter lunchtime in Durham and I was hungry. A stranger in town, I had two hours to kill before my train so I consulted my trusty Harden’s Guide. The app has a useful search ...