As a performance in Bingley’s Myrtle Park, Brighter Still marks both the longest night of the year and the culmination of ...

As December devours the daylight, it’s hard to avoid the winter skies. In the twinkling between dawn and dusk, their restless moods shift from eggshell expansiveness to concrete introspection, hemmed ...

As we approach the end of 2025, we’re looking back at the things that have brought us immense comfort during the year. For the team at Northern Soul, books were once again a source of great joy, and ...

Contemporary art sits between two forms of repetition. One is the tired canon that keeps circling familiar movements, the other is the endless stream of algorithmic images that look perfect but feel ...

Lost Souls, the debut album by Cheshire trio Doves, was released 25 years ago. That quarter of a century has been a hell of a ride for the band, made up of brothers Andy and Jez Williams and frontman ...

Scour the country. Nay, the universe. Pay what you will and marvel at the exquisite professionalism and expensive production values of the priciest extravaganza. You will not find a Christmas show ...

We are now in peak panto time, so Sergei Prokoviev’s L’Amour des Trois Oranges (The Love for Three Oranges) is a ripe choice for the RNCM’s winter opera offering. This is parody: comic stuff with ...

Over this festive season, the theatre scene is awash with big, glittering shows full of singalongs, dancing, hilarious cross-dressing, and half-remembered TV actors. That’s all fine family friendly ...

It’s a children’s animation and story book about a burnt-out Santa Claus with a drink problem. At Sale Waterside, this production of Raymond Briggs’ Father Christmas translates perfectly to the stage.

Every Christmas, a small theatrical miracle takes place in Oldham thanks to the local youth theatre, Oldham Theatre Workshop. ‘Oh,’ you might think. ‘A youth theatre? How nice, but really?’ But the ...

If you want to understand how adventurous and abstract theatre can be, watch a children’s show. Children are the most honest audience you’ll ever sit among. Rarely will you hear one lean over and ...

I’ve been speaking with friends about the last time we saw Stereo MC’s, somewhere and sometime in the early 1990s, and how the way we talk about that era now has been flattened into myth: the cool ...