Entertainment

February, along with January, is normally regarded as a ‘dump month’ in cinema.

Summer music festivals seem a world away as we experience the typical January chill, yet Manchester’s main music event kicks off in the coming days.

Manchester Film Festival have announced their official line up for this year, as well as an expanded length for the fifth edition of the event.

Gypsy Queen, the new play by awarding winning writer Rob Ward, returns to Manchester for two special off-site performances at Moss Side Fire Station Boxing Club on Sunday, January 27.

Ian Hislop and Nick Newman’s new comedy courtroom play Trial by Laughter is currently touring around the UK.

Christian Bale stars as Dick Cheney in this look at the Bush administration.

This January and February Moscow City Ballet are touring the UK with four ballets from their impressive repertoire. I was lucky enough to catch their performance of Romeo & Juliet at the Palace Theatre.

Somewhere within Felix van Groeningen’s ‘Beautiful Boy’ there is a masterpiece.

Moscow City Ballet have delighted audiences with the first of a two-night-only production of Swan Lake at Manchester’s Palace Theatre.

For a musical about a boy band, it is sisterhood that steals the show as the Take That musical comes to The Lowry this January.

Apparently audience participation – shouting often-rude, always-hilarious lines in appropriate places in the shows – started for the movie version back in the 1970s in the US and made it to our shows a few years later.