At The Firehouse, the door opened and I was met with waft of warm air and a friendly welcome. Shown to my table, the interior was larger than I’d imagined – spacious and open with a DJ spinning ...

Until recently, Colin Hoult was doing very nicely indeed as a character-based comic and actor.

Manchester Writing School's Charlotte Shevchenko Knight writes about her debut anthology, shortlisted for a number of awards.

Over the past three years, the Town Hall has been the subject of a multi-million pound restoration funded by The National ...

The apocalypse, Hollywood assures us, will be long and loud and boring, orchestrated and over-determined. In whatever shape it might take, whether asteroid-wide or virus-microscopic, the end is ...

You might call it a choral history. Breach Theatre, however, styles its current production as a documentary musical. Taking its titular inspiration from Before the Act, a 1988 benefit gala organised ...

If I said the words ‘municipal catering’, you would probably recoil in horror. So what I am about ...

The 1970s was a good decade to be a child if you happened to be drawn to the glossy exotica of American comic books. Not only were its first five years a particularly fertile time for the emergence of ...

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra Season Opening Concert Conducted by Domingo Hindoyan. Credit Gareth Jones ...

Many a Liverpudlian who has never darkened the door of the Philharmonic Hall will recognise the face of Domingo Hindoyan, the 44-year-old Venezuelan conductor of the orchestra based there. His image ...