The roots of Little Shop of Horrors are long and deep: it’s an oft-revived stage musical, freely adapted from a cult classic ...
The English love a posh eccentric. Romance novelist Barbara Cartland was as posh as they come and more eccentric than most.
“Make Egypt great again,” boomed the pharaoh from the stage of the Lyceum theatre. Parents in the packed audience of ...
Nevertheless, in lieu of The Odyssey, I visited a new Greek eatery in Salford to spend a couple of hours musing over a ...
Happily, Surinderella, ushering in the solstice season with Blackpool’s illuminations only recently lit, makes the most of ...
With Kasia visiting Japan frequently to source her product, ensuring its quality and authenticity, Suzume often holds sake ...
In a more idiosyncratic sort of anniversary, it’s 24 years since the release of the film 24 Hour Party People, depicting, ...
On March 19, 2026, King Charles III declared the England Coast Path, to which his name was appended in 2023, officially open.
In Gary Fleder’s 1997 thriller Kiss the Girls, Morgan Freeman delivers a line that has stayed with me ever since. Freeman plays forensic psychologist Alex Cross while Ashley Judd is Kate McTiernan.
Manchester loves to tell its cultural story through the people who created things with their own hands. Factory Records, the Haçienda, and the city’s countless independent venues have helped to create ...
The wonderful wooden-O auditorium at Shakespeare North, which won the award for best new theatre building in 2023, is based on the remains of a theatre found in the basement of 10 Downing Street where ...