Cara Conte reviews Zoonation’s Olivier Award-nominated Some Like it Hip Hop

Ella Broadbent reviews The Lovely Bones, the stage adaptation of the best-selling novel of the same name

Camila Florencia Rusailh reviews Igor and Moreno’s BEAT at the Lowry

Evie Appleson attends the press showcase held at Chill Factore for Dr Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas The Musical

Alexia Pieretti reviews Hedda Tessman, a modern retelling of Henrik Ibsen’s iconic Hedda Gabler

Claudia Langley and Theatre Editor Jay Darcy review The Thunder Girls, directed by Joyce Branagh and based on the best-selling book by Melanie Blake

Bayse Genc reviews Box of Tricks’ Under Three Moons at the Lowry

Sam Bronheim reviews the Royal Shakeaspeare Company’s adaptation of As You Like It

Kayleigh Crawford reviews the RSC’s gender-swapped adaptation of The Taming of the Shrew at the Lowry

The award-winning Trojan Horse is a new play telling the true story of ‘hardline’ Muslim teachers and governors facing accusations of extremism

Jay Darcy reviews Mrs Lowry & Son, the new biopic about local artist L. S. Lowry, at the theatre named after him

Who Cares is a play based on the real life testimonies of young carers from Salford as part of a campaign to raise awareness of young carers in the UK

Kizzy Bray reviews Home, I’m Darling at the Lowry Theatre

Saoirse Akhtar-Farren reviews the plentiful Pre-Raphaelite exhibition currently on show at The Lowry, and explores L. S. Lowry’s admiration of the avant-garde Victorian student group.

Ahead of a new term of studying, well-being can often be forgotten about, so Louis Haddad shines a light on the best ways to engage with art to improve your mental health

The placebo effect has been known and studied for decades. This panel discussion dissects placebo in the arts, in research and now it is studied for its implications as a legitimate medicine in the future.

The internationally renowned performance company, Clod Ensemble, blur the boundaries of art and science, and explore the power of the placebo in their latest production

Anuli Changa previews Pigtails Production’s ‘How to Hide a Lion’ adapted and directed by Peter Glanville

Anuli Changa talks to Ben McFarland and Tom Sandham about the ‘Thinking Drinkers’ Pub Crawl’ ahead of its touring visit to The Lowry

Eleanor Forrest finds out what it means for comedian Tez Ilyas to ’Teztify’ against modern day assumptions of himself as a Northern, Working-class, British Muslim.