Entertainment

Picture a Shakespeare production with text messages and dance parties aiming to attract a younger audience.

Fresh from their European tour with American Artist Lissie, gurus of Manchester’s alternative folk scene, The Travelling Band, are back in town and gearing up for a busy festival season ahead.

In Die Diana, a play performed for the Greater Manchester Fringe 2016, writer and director Stephen M Hornby has created what he describes as a ‘dark comedy’ full of tragedy – and he delivered on his promise.

A ‘childhood recurring nightmare’ has inspired a Manchester film producer to create his own crowdfunded sci-fi horror.

Hit ABC series ‘Nashville’ has amassed millions of fans worldwide since it first aired in America in 2012, documenting the lives of fictional musicians in the Tennessee city.

Next week will be a homecoming for one half of electro-pop duo Avec Sans when they play at Night & Day next week.

A student record label will launch in Manchester as they looks to make their first signings.

A play inspired by the 1996 Manchester bomb will be staged on its 20th anniversary.

An aristocratic woman in her mid-50s steps out of the shadows and says: “I am Diana. I faked my own death.”

Some may fear that robots will eventually take over the world, but engineers in Manchester are at least ensuring that our demise will sound spectacular.

The Lightning Seeds and Reverend and the Makers and will headline the Style Rocks GS music festival in Warrington.