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76-storey block to become 'King of the Manchester towers'

Jonathan Schofield likes the new Deansgate giant but is it off the peg?

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'Odd location and oddly staged': Fiennes' Macbeth, The Depot, reviewed

Jonathan Schofield is confused by the direction, the staging and the location

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Draught Bovril & topless barmaids: Manchester pubs in 1975

Jonathan Schofield doesn't want to go back to the 70s

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'Incredible choreography on show': Free Your Mind, Aviva Studios, reviewed

Hayden Naughton takes the red pill for the opening production at Aviva Studios

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Liam Gallagher ‘definitely will be' performing at Co-op Live for Definitely Maybe 30 year...

Manc icon announces he's performing dates at the brand-new arena next June

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Video: Lily's gets ready for Navaratri festival

Watch as Parul from Lily's explains Navaratri festival and how it is celebrated

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Inclusive cabaret: How one performer is prioritising marginalised artists with her Manchester show

Harley Young speaks with Leighlou Harper about the importance of inclusivity in performing arts

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'Pared down but humming with life': Great Expectations, RX Theatre, reviewed

David Adamson enjoys a welcome reworking of Dickens’ masterpiece

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The long view: Manchester's upwardly mobile skyline

Jonathan Schofield and a photo that led to so many other pictures: here are some...

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The Best Twelve: Brutalism in Manchester (part 1/3)

Jonathan Schofield with part one of three stories about the most controversial design style

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Aviva Studios must not repeat the mistake of Urbis

Clear purpose, identity and direction needed if Aviva Studios is to succeed says Jonathan Schofield

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'Renaissance Rediscovered': The Walker Art Gallery's summer blockbuster reviewed

Chris Malpas gets the low down from curator Kate O'Donoghue

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'UK's most horrifying sculpture?': Man on Fire, Imperial War Museum North

Jonathan Schofield doesn't like it at all but thinks it's incredible

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MIF ’23 Reviews: Festival Square, very good but missing the masses

Ahead of the final weekend of MIF, David Adamson reports back on a Saturday night...

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MIF '23 Reviews: THEY with Maxine Peake at John Rylands Library

Sarah Tierney hears a late-night tale about a world where art and individuality are under...

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MIF ’23 Reviews: AFRODEUTSCHE with Manchester Camerata conducted by Robert Ames

David Adamson bears witness to a happy marriage of traditional and techno-inflected

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MIF ’23 Reviews: Kagami by Ryuichi Sakamoto with Tin Drum

David Adamson takes a trip through the uncanny valley when watching the late Japanese master

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MIF ’23 Reviews: You, Me and the Balloons

Jonathan Schofield finds himself lost in an inflatable world of dots