Fibres and patterns are embedded in the surfaces and stories created by the ceramicist Hannah Sulek. We talk to her to find ...

At the beginning of 2026, a crowd gathered at Chester’s Roman Amphitheatre to bring in the New Year. Led by Gluteus Maximus, ...

Rachel Maclean: They’ve Got Your Eyes is at FACT, Liverpool until August 16, 2026. For more information, click here.

The humour lands, but the force sits underneath it. Voice becomes strategy, accent becomes passage. Talent alone is not ...

That sits at the centre of Mythos Ragnarök, but Gamester and his troupe push it further, louder, more visceral. Every clash ...

Inside and outside the Grundy, casting aside the overcast, Blackpool is putting on its lippy and squeezing into its glad rags ...

The Shawshank Redemption is at the Playhouse, Liverpool until April 4, 2026, and on tour. For more information, click here .

For the British Textile Biennial 2025, artists and makers filled spaces – which previously, directly or indirectly, powered Lancashire’s cotton industry – with stories of innovation in textile ...

When the city’s fluorescence, its frenetic denial of night, has started to lose its fascination, there will always be those who take flight to the imagined countryside. Habituated, however, to their ...

As I explain the plot of The Pied Piper of Hamelin to my 13-year-old niece, I watch her expression turn to horror. “Well, there’s this piper who is asked to rid a town of a rat infestation. He plays ...

There’s a raw moment at the close of The Ladies Football Club which brings home how drastically life has changed in the last century. Violet, the instigator of a Sheffield munitions factory’s women’s ...

It smells the same, but looks different. The famous Power Hall at Manchester’s Science & Industry Museum – that warehouse of steam-powered engines, heaving hydraulics and giant trains – has reopened, ...