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Brutal Beauty: the Park Hill Paintings of Mandy Payne
In 1981, Roy Hattersley, then Shadow Home Secretary, made a short film for Yorkshire Television about the Sheffield in which he grew up.
Read the full story..Photo Gallery: An Imagined Museum, Tate Liverpool
An Imagined Museum: works from the Centre Pompidou, Tate and MMK collections opens at Tate Liverpool on November 20, 2015 and runs until February 14, 2016. Here’s a taste of what’s to come.
Read the full story..Blanche McIntyre on The Oresteia at Manchester’s HOME
With the benefit of hindsight, it looks as if theatre director Blanche McIntyre, the golden girl of the theatre world who is about to bring The Oresteia to Manchester’s HOME, might have been destined for her current job.
Read the full story..Win tickets to Whose Sari Now? at The Lowry, Salford
Win tickets to see Whose Sari Now? at The Lowry, Salford
Read the full story..Review: The Family Way, Bolton Octagon
In Northern England most of life passes in unspoken eloquence.
Read the full story..SO HERE WE ARE: what happens when nothing happens
SO HERE WE ARE is a play about young lives cut short and a touching portrait of childhood friendships under strain in adult life. Director Steven Atkinson writes about the upcoming production at Manchester’s Royal Exchange.
Read the full story..Directing The Crucible: Caroline Steinbeis talks to Northern Soul
Caroline Steinbeis’s time is precious.
Read the full story..By Far The Greatest Team: a new play for footie fans
Manchester’s Monkeywood Theatre, in association with The Lowry in Salford, is staging the world premiere of By Far The Greatest Team next month, four new stories by four Manchester writers (two United and two City fans) exploring and celebrating what it means to be a football fan in the city. Martin Gibbons, co-artistic director of Monkeywood Theatre and the play’s director, writes for Northern Soul.
Read the full story..Cartoonist David Haldane on Blyth library, Private Eye and the North
Some children respond to the question “what would you like to be when you grow up?” in outlandish ways.
Read the full story..York Art Gallery: redefining how we look at art
First impressions are important. It’s true for job interviews, dating and visiting museums and galleries.
Read the full story..Editor's Picks
- Image Gallery: The Female Form Through Time, Discovery Museum, Newcastle
- “Our first night is bound to be emotional.” Anthony Prophet, co-owner of The Bowdon Rooms in Altrincham
- Book Review: This Is How We Come Back Stronger – Feminist Writers on Turning Crisis into Change
- Image Gallery: Jade Magenta Williams, A Smart Price way of life, PAPER, Manchester
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