As LadBaby and Stormzy battle for 2019’s coveted Christmas number one spot, the Bridgewater Hall prepare its audience for a sleighful of Christmas classics. There’s no better way to kick off the holiday season than to do a deep dive into your favourite Christmas tracks and Now’s concert brings these tracks to life with a live orchestra.

Rose, the meddling momager of nightmares has been resurrected for this year’s Royal Exchange Christmas musical. The wannabe star is back...

Audiences can’t walk away from the ballad belting music that surrounds The Bodyguard, holding the 1992 romance thriller as the bestselling movie album of all time. It is the vehicle that catapulted Whitney Houston to screen stardom as the enigmatic Rachel Marron and possesses three Grammy’s including Album of the Year and Record of the Year for I Will Always Love You.

Who’s like Christmas, and at the Lowry theatre their gorgeously unique world has been taken straight out of the 1957 picture book and placed on the stage. Writer Timothy Mason has stretched out Dr. Seuss’s 69 pages and immersed audiences in the reanimated world of Whoville to make How the Grinch Stole Christmas the ultimate musical feast.