You know the kind of thing you’re getting with a Shakespearean comedy. Lovers falling out with each other amid some crossed wires. Someone (usually a hapless male) dressing up in ridiculous fashion.

History is littered with sitcoms transferring unsuccessfully to the stage or film. One of the big problems is that the joke ratio plummets when something that works in a 25-minute format is stretched ...

Words have their own particular architecture. A scaffolding of syntax and a skeleton of grammar that both shapes and constrains the sayable. Dance, by way of contrast, has the facility to slip beyond ...

When Yorkshire-born Kieran Hodgson joined the cast of BBC Scotland’s hit comedy series Two Doors Down, he decided to go “all in” and relocate with his partner to Glasgow. “I haven’t done a show for ...

If the UK ever decides to appoint an Anglo-Scottish mediator (and I think that it should), then look no further than Kieran Hodgson. Big In Scotland, the writer and actor’s latest one-man show, is an ...

When the city’s fluorescence, its frenetic denial of night, has started to lose its fascination, there will always be those who take flight to the imagined countryside. Habituated, however, to their ...

It all began with Charlie Williams. Less well remembered these days than some of his peers, the former footballer was, in the early 1970s, Britain’s best-known black stand-up, having been promoted ...

This month, Lincoln has been treated to Scarborough Macabre, an off-season sojourn to the seaside in which artist Melody Phelan-Clark “regurgitates the strange and sinister nature of the British coast ...

Picture the scene: a gloomy Saturday evening in Manchester and the rain pours down like shoals of silver fish from a glowering, diluvian sky. Inside The Stoller Hall, however, The Brighouse & Rastrick ...

MIF23’s opening night world premiere performed at HOME is an adaptation of a cult fantasy novel written in 1977 by Larry Mitchell and Ned Asia, in which history is reimagined through the lens of the ...

There are many things that regular attendees expect the Everyman Theatre’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Panto to be, but a satirical commentary on the resurgence of toxic masculinity is probably not one of them.

When I was asked to review the 18th anniversary menu at Vermilion, self-styled as ‘Manchester’s most glamorous restaurant’, I thought two things: (a) after 18 years, why haven’t I heard of it? And (b) ...