Although best known for its comedy nights, this art deco former cinema puts on dance, drama and music gigs, and is the home of the Northern Ballet School.

A champion of experimental theatre, live art, dance and spoken-word events that expects the audience to muck in too. You have been warned…

A long way from the grimly functional mill buildings so often captured by its eponymous subject and raison d'être, the Lowry marked a tipping point for the...

This venue quietly hosts some of the city's best literary events. Its concert hall is home to the Quatuor Danel string quartet (which often gives free...

This multi-award-winning and perennially popular theatre takes its name from its octagonal auditorium. This isn't the result of architectural whimsy: clever...

Opera House is a wonderfully ornate 2,000-capacity theatre whose output of West End musicals, comedy, ballet and drama is similar to its sister venue, the...

Massive musicals, big-name comedians and celeb-stuffed Christmas pantos regularly play to a packed house. The theatre also stages dance, from highbrow...

The Exchange, once the world's biggest commercial trading floor, has its history writ large on its interior - literally, as cotton prices are still posted...

This sprawling academic complex is one of the country's largest educational establishments. Amid the beautiful collection of red-brick buildings and theatre...