Manchester International Festival, the world’s first festival of original, new work and special events, has announced its programme for 2015. The event, which runs from Thursday 2nd July to Sunday 19th July has been taking place biennially since being launched in 2007 as an artist-led commissioning festival, presenting new works from across the visual arts, performing…
Sunday 1st March: Royal Exchange Theatre – Manchester Camerata: Challenging the Senses. An immersive concert featuring Crumb’s Black Angels, Dowland’s Go Crystal Tears, Shostakovich’s String Quartet No 8 in C minor and Haydn’s Quartet No 63 ‘Sunrise’. Blackfinds will be handed out to enhance the senses (don’t worry though, they are optional) as well as cocktail…
Interactive storytelling as part of Future Everything 2015. Interactive storytelling pioneers Blast Theory have teamed up with the Royal Exchange Theatre to present the world premiere of Too Much Information – a citywide audio walk through the streets of Manchester which uncovers a series of funny and frank conversations between a group of young people and…
Event forms part of Get Creative – major celebration of the nation’s arts, culture and creativity The Royal Exchange Theatre is to stage a discussion about the value of arts, culture and creativity in Greater Manchester. The event, dubbed Creativity Counts, will explore the value of creative and cultural experiences to the region and asks…
The story of Manchester’s original gangs Award-winning playwright Rona Munro’s new play Scuttlers is set to receive its world premiere at Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre. Inspired by the Manchester riots of 2011 and stores of all the Manchester gangs from the nineteenth century through to modern times, Scuttlers is set in 1885, but pitched against…
The Royal Exchange Theatre’s production of 1950’s musical sci-fi spoot Little Shop of Horrors hits the stage – and it’s a winner.
Just how do you build a wolf-proof home? Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre is set to host an ingenious adaptation of the classic children’s story 3 Little Pigs this Christmas. Aimed at anybody from 3 to 70, 3 Little Pigs will run from Saturday 20th December 2014 until Saturday 3rd January 2015 and promises to be a…
George Brant’s award winning play Grounded has been announced for a run of shows at the Royal Exchange Theatre from 4th November to 8th November as part of a national tour, following the success of sell out performances at the Edinburgh Festival and Gate Theatre as well as a series of dates at Studio Theatre…
If you enjoy an evening of theatre that is full of hilarity, provocation and surprises, you should definitely snap up a ticket to Crocodiles.
The Family Arts Festival is coming to Manchester this October for two weeks of theatre and performance art for parents, carers, children and young people – all at pocket-friendly prices.
