Entertainment

Manchester will play host to a ground-breaking sitcom as the BBC has commissioned its first ever comedy to feature a transgender actress as its lead.

Canadian band The Burning Hell performed at the Soup Kitchen last night as part of their UK tour

Dan Michaelson speaks to MM about his heartbreak album, the city and how and how his music will soon be a soundtrack for comedy after his Northern Quarter performance.

The Full Monty is running at Manchester Opera House until September 20

Orgasmatron challengers wanted! Peaches Christ invites you to Bearbarella, the extremely risqué stage-show parody that will be hitting Manchester next month.

Happy Mondays singer Rowetta will be joining some of the city’s best music acts at an all-day fundraiser this weekend, to raise even more funds for Manchester Dogs’ Home.

The Saturdays got a packed-out Manchester Apollo Up dancing on a Sunday evening as they came to the city on their Greatest Hits tour.

Creating music should be like telling fairy tales, claims Manchester Camerata director Gábor Takács-Nagy, ahead of their ‘exciting’ interpretation of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons.

Manchester will become awash with colour and culture as the nation’s biggest art fair outside of London will settle in to its new location at the iconic Old Granada Studios later this month.

White Settlers tells the story of an English couple, played by Pollyanna McIntosh and Lee Williams, who re-locate to the idyllic Scottish borders, only to end up being brutally terrorised by their Tartan neighbours

Get your teeth stuck into the haunting and erotic story of Bram Stoker’s Dracula at Manchester’s Contact Theatre next month.