Claudia Langley reviews As British as a Watermelon at Hope Mill Theatre

Words and Music – James Joyce and Anthony Burgess is a literature event featuring Enrico Terrinoni at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation

Anna Jin reviews the stage adaptation of David Walliam’s The Slightly Annoying Elephant

Ana Maria Ortiz reviews Tribe’s Still I Rise at the Lowry

Alexia Pieretti reviews UMDS’ The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, based on the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel

Alana Cook and Jess Johnstone review Priscilla Queen of the Desert, starring Joe McFadden, at the Palace Theatre

Party Like Gatsby is an immersive party coming to Manchester’s O2 Ritz for one night only

Theatre Impossible is celebrating NYE and the beginning of the 2020s with a throwback to the 1920s

Kate Ireland reviews Bryony Kimmings’ I’m a Phoenix Bitch at HOME

Manchester Central Library honours Holocaust Memorial Day with a show about the past, and how we free ourselves from it

Jess Johnstone reviews UMDS’ double bill of Mother Tongue and Riot Act at Tribeca Bar

Theatre Editor Jay Darcy reviews The Bodyguard, starring Alexandra Burke and Ben Lewis, at the Palace Theatre

Anna Jin reviews SPLIT/MIXED at the Royal Exchange Theatre

Kayleigh Crawford reviews Mischief Theatre’s Peter Pan Goes Wrong at the Lowry

Theatre Editor Jay Darcy reviews Melanie Martinez’s K-12 Tour, a theatrical concert experience, at the O2 Apollo

The NYT are holding auditions for young people, aged 14-25, at the Royal Exchange Theatre in February and March

Theatre Editor Jay Darcy reviews 1927’s Roots at HOME

Ikra Raja reviews Snow White, starring Craig Revel Horwood, Ben Nickless and Eric Potts, at the Opera House