The often fatal idea of casting minor celebrities in popular musicals proves Annabel Cartwright wrong with the UK tour of Footloose

Sarah Teale’s ‘An Evening With The Voices In Annie’s Head’ steals the lime light of the University of Manchester Drama society 2016 MIFTA’s

The Birmingham Royal Ballet host their 2016 Shakespeare celebration at Salford’s Lowry Theatre

By doubling their number of annual productions, the University of Manchester’s musical theatre society present The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

The Geordie comedian delivered a blockbuster show on the stage at The Lowry

The touching tale of a childless father and a fatherless child brought together through the hardship of war in a love story that could melt a heart of ice

Coronation Street staples David Nielson and Chris Gascoyne take on Beckett’s Endgame at HOME

The Cancer Awareness in Teenagers and Young People Society (CATS) host the talent Manchester University has on offer with their ‘Battle of the Societies’

Jack Carmichael enters a world of ‘Beatlemania’ to review this show which follow the band’s musical journey

A writer and his writer’s block form the basis a witty and ambitious play written and directed by Rob Paterson

Marianne Elliot brings a cocktail of DH Lawrence’s greats with Husbands & Sons to the Royal Exchange Theatre

Home to 6,000 refugees from some of the most violent places on Earth, the last thing you’d expect to find between countless tents and huts is a theatre

Featuring 22 UK universities, the largest Northern university dance competition comes to Manchester this weekend

The jellicle cats come alive at the Manchester Opera House in this modern take on the classic family musical

A preview of An Evening with the Voices in Annie’s Head, part of the University of Manchester Drama Society’s MIFTAs 2016 season

Mary Poppins at the Palace Theatre Manchester is a magical and breath-taking rendition of the Disney classic, with new twists and turns

Harry Newton looks back on a fantastic performance by the cast of Shrek the Musical at The Lowry

Scintillating costumes, flexed feet, and moments of questionable timing! Reporter Georgina Gledhill examines The Moscow City Ballet’s The Nutcracker with a keen eye…

HOME’s new interpretation of the Shakespeare classic Macbeth casts a dystopian setting against the violent play

Wit at the Royal Exchange Theatre, featuring Julie Hesmondhalgh, is an intensely emotional but also sharply funny story of a dying academic’s attempts to come to terms with her mortality