Entertainment

On April 14 Paul Thompson hosts Fourplay, his first production at the Northern Quarter’s Three Minute Theatre.

Pop star Pixie Lott may give Holly Golightly new life in a new production of Breakfast at Tiffany’s, but she misses the mark with her American accent.

Hollywood glamour and mind games with an unexpected twist are thrust together in the gothic surrounds of an English haunted house in Joe O’Byrne’s The Haunting of Blaine Manor.

A Glossop funk band will be looking to build on a year of highs after supporting soul legend Alexander O’Neal on tour.

Self-styled as ‘an idealist mixed with a goofball’ and ‘an intellectual with no common sense’, Dane Baptiste is a comic who has no intention of withholding his opinion.

Music with a message may not dominate the charts, but it has found a home in nooks and crannies around the country, and the rest of Europe, in the shape of Roxanne de Bastion.

The classic Greek play The Odyssey has been modernised to show a woman’s point of view of the ‘macho’ Greek world by a Manchester-based theatre-maker.

Two student filmmakers are crowdfunding to create Grim Preacher, a black comedy about the bubonic plague.

The crowd gathers in anticipation. Young and old take their positions in plush red seats, in a theatre which removes all barriers between the actors and the audience.

Opera North’s ’whistle-stop’ series has been praised for breaking down the ‘uncool’ tag that classical music retains with young people by a local teacher.

Staff and students from the University of Salford are hoping to turn their home-made supernatural thriller into a UK Television series.