The story of Manchester’s original gangs Award-winning playwright Rona Munro’s new play Scuttlers is set to receive its world premiere at Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre. Inspired by the Manchester riots of 2011 and stores of all the Manchester gangs from the nineteenth century through to modern times, Scuttlers is set in 1885, but pitched against…
Thu 29 Jan, 8pm. £15/10. Over 15s. Post-show talk. BSL Interpreted. Tim Crouch and Andy Smith: what happens to the hope at the end of the evening A story about this evening, one evening and every evening; a story of two men meeting in the middle of their lives, and at the outer edges of…
Eight Grand Pianos Set To Take To The Stage The Royal Northern College of Music is set to host the third John Wilson Piano Spectacular, celebrating his 75th birthday and raising money for the John Wilson Junior Fellowship in Accompaniment at the world renowned college. The evening is set to be compered by Classic FM…
Real Life Science project receives award Manchester Museum, the UK’s largest university museum, has won the prestigious Lever Prize 2015. The award, now in its ninth year, is given to arts organisations in North West England who are judged to be regionally distinctive, showing a high calibre of existing work and able to demonstrate exciting…
Sunday 4th January and Monday 5th January: Bridgewater Hall – The Nutcracker. Rounding off the Christmas period perfectly, the Russian State Ballet & Orchestra of Siberia perform the incredible ballet The Nutcracker in three shows at The Bridgewater Hall. Sun 2.30pm Tickets £33.50 – £21.50; Sun 5.30pm Tickets £40.50 – £29.50; Mon 5 Jan…
Tuesday 23rd December: Bridgewater Hall – The Halle presents The Snowman. A screening of the classic animated Christmas movie The Snowman, accompanied by the Halle performing Howard Blake’s score including a chorister singing Walking in the Air. Tickets £24 (adults), £16 (children). 1.30pm, 4.00pm and 6.30pm. Friday 26th December: Bridgewater Hall – Music…
Legendary band Inspiral Carpets have been announced to appear at Manchester’s Gigantic Indie All Dayer, set to take place at Manchester Academy on 23rd May 2015. The band are following on from their triumphant comeback this year with their single Spitfire and self-titled album and will be appearing with their full and original 1983 line…
Set to play biggest shows of career Twin Atlantic have announced four UK tour dates, which will see the four-piece performing the biggest gigs of their career in May 2015, including a date at Manchester’s Albert Hall on Tuesday 5th May. Twin Atlantic (Sam McTrusty – vocals and guitar, Ross McNae – bass, piano and…
Performing two classic albums over two nights One of Manchester’s pre-eminent 1980s post-punk bands are returning to the city to perform two special gigs at Manchester Academy on 19th and 20th December which will feature Chameleons Vox performing The Chameleons’ second and third albums in their entirety. The shows come of the back of their…
Black Country 5-piece returning to Manchester EofE have been announced as support to UK metallers Glamour Of The Kill at their Manchester gig at Sound Control on 26th February 2015. The gig comes on the back of a successful headline tour in November, during which the band played 11 raucous UK dates, and not to…
