REVIEW: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Reading Time: 2 minutesA vibrant new production of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the Globe Theatre becomes a space for communal celebration under starry, summer skies.

Reading Time: 2 minutesA vibrant new production of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the Globe Theatre becomes a space for communal celebration under starry, summer skies.

Reading Time: 2 minutesNoughts and Crosses is a story that feel just as important today, if not more, than when the book was published in 2001. Adapted for the stage by Sabrina Mahfouzand directed by Ester Richardson, this production arrives at The Lowry to bring readers back to the world of Sephy and Callum.

Reading Time: 3 minutesWe sat down for an exclusive interview with Molly Keogh, founder of HOUSE23, a multi-faceted creative community built to keep the fire burning for established and emerging artists across all crafts.

Reading Time: 2 minutesReview: Maricel at the Manchester Film Festival — a powerful story of Filipino OFWs, family sacrifice, blending emotional depth with authentic storytelling.

Reading Time: 2 minutesExit 8, Directed by Genki Kawamura is on show at the 2026 Manchester Film Festival and drew a packed audience to the Odeon Great Northern

Reading Time: 2 minutesPsychopomp is Kit Harington's directorial debut is a dark comedy short, shot in Northern England, starring Harry Melling as a desperate man who’s decided to end his own life with the help of hired assassin Liam.

Reading Time: 2 minutesUsing miniature environments, model worlds, camera tricks, and projection, imitating the dog mix the live and the recorded, the animate and the inanimate to create a thrilling, audacious and timely retelling of H.G. Wells’ classic novel.
Following their acclaimed adaptations of literary classics Heart of Darkness (2018), Dracula (2021), Macbeth (2023) and Frankenstein (2024), “multimedia daredevils” imitating the dog push their inventive storytelling to new heights

Reading Time: 2 minutesREVIEW: Operation Mincemeat
After Olivier and Tony success, Operation Mincemeat begins its world tour back where it all began at The Lowry.

Reading Time: 2 minutesAaron Sorkin’s riveting, award-winning stage adaptation of the seminal American novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, about racial injustice and childhood innocence became a Broadway and West End sensation has arrived at The Lowry, Manchester.

Reading Time: 2 minutesTom Hanks narrates The Moonwalkers at Aviva Studios Manchester, an epic experience offering a unique perspective on humankind’s past and future voyages to the moon.
Lightroom’s powerful projection and audio technology will transform the immense space into a vehicle for a spectacular