The Royal Exchange Theatre’s Studio Season is set to launch with the première of Luke Norris’ Bruntwood Prize winning play So Here We Are. So Here We Are, the 2013 Bruntwood Prize winner for Playwriting, is co-produced by The Royal Exchange Theatre and the HighTide Festival and explores the complex and fragile nature of life…
FLARE15’s six day programme of new, radical theatre from across the UK, Europe and Australasia is set to occupy theatres and art spaces across Manchester from 13 July to 18 July. Featuring a total of 22 performances from 10 different countries, narrowed down from nearly 300 applications, the programme presents a bold vision of tomorrow’s…
Flare15 takes place from 13-18 July at a number of the city’s arts and theatre – Z-arts, Contact, Royal Exchange Theatre, Martin Harris Centre. We take a look at what’s on: Sleepwalk Collective (UK / ES) As The Flame Rose We Danced To The Sirens, The Sirens Venue: Contact Dates: Monday 13 July 19:30 Ticket: FLARE15…
The critically acclaimed staging of Hamlet at the Royal Exchange Theatre, featuring BAFTA-nominated actress Maxine Peake is now set to be shown on Sky Arts on Monday 29 June at 8pm before it is released on DVD in September of this year. The showing on television follows a cinema run viewed by 34,831 people in…
Borrowing its title from John Steinbeck’s East of Eden, this highly celebrated work from one of the UK’s foremost contemporary theatre companies, Greyscale, explores a moment of realisation universal to all; a child’s eventual recognition of their parents as a fellow human being. The show, performed by an all-male cast, presents a lifetime of conversations…
Monday 4 – Saturday 9 May: Opera House – Lord of the Dance. Michael Flatley’s latest spectacular, Lord of the Dance: Dangerous Games, a new staging of the traditional master piece features new staging, costumes and choreography as well as a cast of 40 of the world’s most outstanding young performers concludes at Manchester’s Opera House….
Bristol-based company Sleepdogs is set to present its latest touring work The Bullet and the Brass Trombone at the Royal Exchange Theatre on 1 and 2 May. The Bullet and the Bass Trombone sees the arrival of a symphony orchestra in the capital city of a tropical country, expecting to perform a new piece of…
until 2 May: The Royal Exchange Theatre – Anna Karenina. The classic Leo Tolstoy piece, adapted by Jo Clifford, enters its final week at the Royal Exchange Theatre before moving to Leeds. The story explores two very different couples grappling with their feelings of love, directed by Olivier nominated Ellen McDougall. 7.30pm Tuesday 28…
We take a look at some of the studio shows and special events coming up over the next few months: The Lady’s Not For Walking Like An Egyptian Thursday 9th April – Saturday 11th April Commissioned by Ovalhouse and presented by innovative theatre makers Mar.tarrab this joyful romp of a show Written and performed by…
We pick out some of the classical highlights in Manchester this week including events at the Bridgewater Hall, RNCM and Chetham’s.
