I haven’t been to a pantomime since I was a child. As it turns out, pantos are much more enjoyable when you’re old enough to ...

The triumph of this Pied Piper reminded me of my life in London when, each Christmas, the Hackney panto was my theatrical ...

Ebenezer Scrooge doesn’t usually travel by scooter. For generations of Christmas Carol retellings, he’s sulked and trudged.

Singin’ in the Rain is at the Royal Exchange, Manchester until January 25, 2026. For more information, click here.

Alongside such ambiguous servings of kitchen sink grimness, there is a generous helping of kitsch and glam, notably the ...

It’s nose-bitingly cold outside, but the glowing red lights of the Copper Bar at Manchester’s Band on the Wall invite me in ...

When I meet Jason Wilsher-Mills at the Grundy, he greets me with a line that sets the tone for everything that follows: ...

You know the kind of thing you’re getting with a Shakespearean comedy. Lovers falling out with each other amid some crossed wires. Someone (usually a hapless male) dressing up in ridiculous fashion.

As a student of literature picking up a modern novel involving interwar lavish consumerism in the West, I’m bracing myself for something rigidly estranged from the likes of Hemingway and Fitzgerald.

To misquote Jane Austen: ‘Prizes are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.’ The prose stylist against whom all who have come after must measure ...

She was lauded as an exceptional painter. Now a new exhibition highlights something entirely different: rag rugs. Tullie House in Carlisle is hosting Winifred Nicholson: Cumbrian Rag Rugs. Revealing ...