MANCHESTER INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL A good move by MIF to link up with The Warehouse Project: a 12-hour club extravaganza, with sets from Unabombers, DJ Koze, Mr Ties, Joy Orbison and Carl Craig ...
For her Manchester international festival show, FKA twigs invited fans to watch rehearsals. The result was an intimate glimpse inside her creative process Those who saw FKA twigs ’ extraordin...
Comedy is growing out of pubs and arenas, and making inroads into respected arts festivals – but could it lose its edge as a result? Interesting times for comedy fans: we’re watching an art...
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2015/jul/17/comedy-high-culture-manchester-international-festival
PAVILION THEATRE, MANCHESTER Comedy collective the Invisible Dot dine out on this Dostoevsky-inspired tale of an actor consumed by a crocodile Fyodor Dostoevsky is possibly the last figure yo...
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2015/jul/16/the-crocodile-review-laugh-along-with-ivan-the-edible
BRIDGEWATER HALL, MANCHESTER Playing in semi-darkness with minimum vibrato, the Manchester Camerata proved to be the ideal ensemble for this type of music The Guardian is the festival’s media...
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2015/jul/13/manchester-cameratatakacs-nagy-review-arvo-part-mif
Opera House, Manchester CBeebies’ resident clown shares his origin myth at a Manchester international festival appearance that is seriously silly So who is the hottest ticket at this year’s...
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2015/jul/13/the-tale-of-mr-tumble-review-cbeebies-justin-fletcher
Old Granada Studios, Manchester A collage of stories, transplanted from New York to Manchester, deal with racism, violence and injustice in a combustible performance The Guardian is the festival�...
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2015/jul/13/flexn-manchester-mif-street-dance-peter-sellars
ROYAL EXCHANGE, MANCHESTER Caryl Churchill’s doom-wreaking Skriker, created 20 years ago, proves to be a primary figure of modern theatre She would not be welcome as a member of the Garrick C...
HOME, MANCHESTER Charlotte Rampling does her best in visual artist Douglas Gordon’s humourless and sedate Red Riding Hood retelling If you go down to the woods today ... the only surprise abo...
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2015/jul/11/neck-of-the-woods-all-style-and-no-fangs
He rules kids’ TV with Gigglebiz, Something Special and Justin’s House – and now his jazzy clown creation Mr Tumble is about to storm the stage in Manchester. But Justin Fletcher still can�...
CASTLEFIELD BOWL, MANCHESTER Icelandic superstar, sporting a DayGlo butterfly outfit, performs the intense Vulnicura, chronicling her break up with artist Matthew Barney Björk’s appearance a...
The Hinterland singer explains how the post-industrial landscape of Manchester, from the parkour gangs on motorways to the crumbling mills, feeds her songwriting and her soul Wandering through ...
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2015/jul/06/lonelady-ruins-are-my-idea-of-fun
The city has seen a lot of changes since his band first emerged 26 years ago. On the eve of a show at the Manchester international festival, the self-styled ‘Zen artist’ takes us around some ...
A shoulder twisted out of its socket? A back flip from the second floor of a building? Those are just the sort of show-stopping moves turning New York’s latest street dance craze into an intern...
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2015/jul/06/flexing-street-dance-craze-bone-breaking
Ever wondered what a mixture of Adam Buxton, Björk and Mr Tumble would look like? Artist Ed Atkins and a team of CGI geeks are turning all the stars of Manchester International festival into a f...
He has a ‘delicate heart’, was made to feel less of a failure by reading David Foster Wallace and has plenty to say about austerity Britain – the outsider comedian answered your questions l...
The outspoken standup talks about teenage bad behaviour, panel shows and the ‘stubborn’ iPhone pest who inspired her Manchester international festival show The seeds of Sara Pascoe’s Manc...
HALLÉ ST PETER’S, MANCHESTER He may finish with his girdle on the floor, but the Venezuelan producer’s fractured melodies and electronic dissonance beguiles in conservative times The Gua...
BRIDGEWATER HALL, MANCHESTER Simpson’s new occult-obsessed oratorio, with Melanie Challenger’s libretto about the founder of the Society of Psychical Research, asks the existential question...
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/jul/05/the-immortalsimpson-review-blazingly-original-oratorio
OPERA HOUSE, MANCHESTER Choreographer Wayne McGregor and artist Olafur Eliasson adapt Jonathan Safran Foer’s book Tree of Codes into a superficially spectacular multimedia event for the Manch...
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2015/jul/05/tree-of-codes-review-wayne-mcgregor-olafur-eliasson