Kourtney Kardashian came to HOME in Manchester… sort of.

“Oh what a night, hypnotisin’ mesmerising me; it was everything I dreamed it’d be”. These classic lyrics are funnily enough a great way to sum up Jersey Boys.

Former Hollyoaks actor David Judge brings his autobiographical play ‘SparkPlug’ to HOME Manchester. Running from Feb 13 to April 13, the play explores ‘race, love and family’.

Ian Hislop and Nick Newman bring comedy to the court in their play Trial By Laughter, now showing at The Lowry.

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.

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.

Manchester is a city that’s second to none – but you can’t beat a good trip to the Land of Oz.

First Time is a one-man show created and performed by Nathaniel Hall, in which he explores his experiences of contracting HIV during his first sexual experience at the age of 16.

Manchester has waited ever so patiently for its turn to experience the phenomenon that is Kinky Boots – and now it’s finally here.

The production was last shown in 2014 (the centenary of the beginning of World War One) in London and was met to rave reviews, being nominated for multiple OFFIE’s and winning one.

A triumph of comedy borne out of tragedy, Gary Barlow and Tim Firth’s Calendar Girls is the perfect remedy to the dark winter nights approaching.