Transgender arts festival Trans Vegas returns to Manchester for its second year, raising trans visibility and fighting transphobia with art events across the city. The second annual transgender arts festival takes place across the city, presented by Manchester trans...
Honeyfeet bring their ever evolving sound to Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre next week after previously selling out Band on the Wall and Gorilla. ‘Folk-hop’, ‘Barrelhouse-pop’, call it what you will, Honeyfeet have spent the last 10 years taking festival stages,...
Contact Manchester has announced the third part of Contact In The City as work continues on its Oxford Road building. The third part will run from January to June covering questions of politics, protest and community. Whilst refurbishment works are taking place at...
Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre has revealed a mix of Royal Exchange supported artists and innovative theatre makers from across the UK in its Autumn/Winter 2018 Studio Season programme. And it’s clear that the Manchester Theatre is setting it’s sights high, even...
Manchester's Royal Exchange Theatre hosts a production of Mountains: The Dreams of Lily Kwok, telling the astonishing story of generations of women behind Manchester restaurant and Northern Quarter institution Sweet Mandarin. The seventh Black Theatre Live show,...
The Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, celebrates the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley’s incredible Frankenstein this spring with a brand-new adaption by playwright April De Angelis. Audiences will be able to step inside Victor Frankenstein’s nightmare as Director...
As always, there’s plenty coming to the Royal Exchange Theatre in the Spring/Summer 2018 season, so we’re taking a look at some of the visiting productions coming to The Studio at the Royal Exchange Theatre over the next few months. Moments That Changed Our World...
Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre hosts a run of Kendall Feaver’s professional debut The Almighty Sometimes in February. Winner of a Judges Award in the Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting 2015, the play sees Julie Hesmondhalgh and Norah Lopez Holden return to the Royal...
Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre hosts the premiere of Black Men Walking before the production embarks on a UK tour. Inspired by a real-life Black men’s walking group based in Sheffield, Black Men Walking has been conceived by Eclipse in collaboration with...
Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre will play host to a series of plays and stories for a fast changing world over Spring and Summer 2018. The Spring/Summer 2018 season promises to celebrate great plays and stores which have stood the time of time, reimagining them...
Fringe-first award winning piece Two Man Show comes to Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre, with a one-off performance to mark RashDash’s new Association Artist relationship with the Theatre. Commissioned by Northern Stage and Soho Theatre, Two Man Show is a...
The Royal Exchange Theatre Young Company presents We Were Told There Was Dancing, a brand-new show that takes its audience underground in a daring promenade production through the labyrinth-basement of the Royal Exchange building. What is We Were Told There Was...
Sarah Frankcom’s new production of Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize winning play Our Town comes to Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre for a month-long run. The epic tale of community and humanity puts Manchester at its heart. In this intimate in-the-round stage...
The Regional Theatre Young Director Scheme will become an Associate Company of the Royal Exchange Theatre where it will have its northern base. The scheme supports a nationwide structure of paid opportunities for career development for emerging directors from under...
Lewis Bray’s Cartoonopolis, a funny and touching portrait of family life, comes to Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre next week. Written for the stage as a one-man show, Cartoonopolis is based on real events. It gives an insight into the world of Lewis’ brother...