Krapp’s Last Tape is at York Theatre Royal until May 17, 2025. For more information, click here.

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Manchester’s comedy scene is thriving, with new nights springing up all the time. What’s remarkable, though, is that one city ...

It’s certainly easy to see why Boys from the Blackstuff has been adapted for the stage. Alan Bleasdale’s 1982 TV serial made ...

Are you having a larf? Manchester's XS Malarkey comedy club is nearly 30. We talk to its compere and upcoming headliner.

SICK (a note from 40 Sandilands Road and other stories) is at The Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery, Leeds until July 19, ...

Moving house is a bag of mixed emotions. There’s the anticipation of a fresh start, the lure of unfamiliar surroundings, and ...

The video was written and recorded as part of a series made by Elysium Theatre during Covid, and you can see it on their ...

The act of writing is by nature a solitary one. It’s also – and here I must ask for your forgiveness for what follows – an endeavour all too ripe for metaphor. In many ways, the writer is a perennial ...

I have written the Great Leeds Novel. Somebody had to. You may have noticed that Leeds doesn’t have the richest literary tradition. We’ve had no major literary school, no defining scene. We have ...

Beyond its spotlight on the first person, autobiography has the power to illuminate more widely, ...