Brummie/Cockney accents, excellent puppetry and a truly magical bed – Emily Turvey reviews the stage adaptation of Bedknobs and Broomsticks at the Lowry, which last played in Manchester mere months ago and stars Dianne Pilkington in the lead role

Jess Ferguson reviews Opera North’s Alcina at the Lowry

Maria Plakhtieva reviews Opera North’s Rigoletto at the Lowry

Secoura Grim reviews Opera North’s Carmen at the Lowry

Harriet Cummings reviews As You Like It at the Lowry

Disney’s stage musical adaptation of Bedknobs and Broomsticks returns to Manchester, playing at the Lowry and starring Dianne Pilkington

An all-Northern adaptation of Shakespeare’s As You Like It is playing at the Lowry next week

Aayush Chadha reviews The Hound of the Baskervilles, an adaptation of the Sherlock Holmes novel of the same name, at the Lowry

Theatre Editor Jay Darcy reviews The Play What I Wrote, which featured Charles Dance as a mystery special guest

Find out what shows are heading to Manchester’s main theatres over the holiday season

The stage adaptation of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe plays at the Lowry this Christmas

Theatre Editor Jay Darcy reviews Opera North’s adaptation of Bizet’s Carmen at the Lowry

Madison Emmett reviews Anna X at the Lowry, starring Golden Globe winner Emma Corrin

Theatre Editor Jay Darcy reviews Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Tell Me on a Sunday, which stars Jodie Prenger, at the Lowry

Theatre Editor Jay Darcy reviews Death Drop at the Lowry – which stars Drag Race legends Willam, Ra’Jah O’Hara, Vinegar Strokes and Karen from Finance

Head Theatre Editor Jay Darcy reviews Anton Du Beke and Giovanni Pernice’s Him & Me at the Lowry

Theatre Editor Jay Darcy reviews Opera North’s A Night at the Opera at the Lowry – the first Mancunion Theatre review since theatres reopened in 2021

Sam Bronheim reviews Birmingham Royal Ballet’s Swan Lake at the Lowry

Tara Bharadia reviews A Monster Calls, which is based on the novel of the same name and was also adapted into a film, at the Lowry

Theatre Editor Jay Darcy and Claudia Langley interview Melanie Blake, ahead of the tour of the stage adaptation of her best-selling novel, The Thunder Girls