‘In folk horror, the soil beneath our feet is seismically unstable’, writes Hollie Starling in her introduction to Bog People ...

Dancing at Lughnasa, Brian Friel’s poignant play inspired by his own family’s roots in Donegal, is no exception. The best ...

The Grand Babylon Hotel is at the New Vic, Stoke-on-Trent until October 4, 2025. For more information, click here.

I have always wanted to visit The Modernist. Along the row of stylish windows lining Manchester’s Porter Street, its ...

The first rule about being British is, you don’t talk about it. Like Fight Club. It’s our main characteristic. This is one of ...

Over recent years there have been rumblings of an Ideal revival, possible as a feature film, but for its anniversary it’s ...

Relax. You know the song. And you probably know the band, Frankie Goes to Hollywood. But can you recall who sang lead vocals on the 1984 track? Top pop points if your answer was Holly Johnson, the ...

When Yorkshire-born Kieran Hodgson joined the cast of BBC Scotland’s hit comedy series Two Doors Down, he decided to go “all in” and relocate with his partner to Glasgow. “I haven’t done a show for ...

I moved house earlier this year. While my new place is what estate agents euphemistically refer to as ‘a fixer-upper’, in reality it’s a bungalow built in 1988 which has remained largely the same ...

And so to the hottest dining ticket in town, Bangkok Diners Club, upstairs in the Edinburgh Castle pub in Manchester’s Ancoats. It’s a new venture from husband and wife team Ben and Bo Humphreys from ...

She was lauded as an exceptional painter. Now a new exhibition highlights something entirely different: rag rugs. Tullie House in Carlisle is hosting Winifred Nicholson: Cumbrian Rag Rugs. Revealing ...

You know the kind of thing you’re getting with a Shakespearean comedy. Lovers falling out with each other amid some crossed wires. Someone (usually a hapless male) dressing up in ridiculous fashion.