NEW CENTURY HALL, MANCHESTER Lace-clad dancers writhe and prowl across a packed dancefloor, titillating close-up audience members with their supreme confidence and awesome muscular control Four...
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2023/jul/16/rose-review-new-century-hall-manchester-sharon-eyal
MANCHESTER ACADEMY Three dancers are photographed by Reid in real time – and the beautiful still moments he extracts from their choreography form into a striking visual narrative before your ey...
Manchester Academy; Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester A belief in the transformative power of art unites Reid’s sensational autobiographical work and Sehgal’s meditation on the grace of footb...
Home; Versa Manchester Studios; Royal Exchange, Manchester The rigidity of othering is blown away, along with Asian stereotypes. Plus, a mixed reality celebration of Ryuichi Sakamoto and a walk o...
Home, Manchester This hugely eloquent show weaves together the awful mystery of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 with the tale of a father’s slide into dementia This experimental drama takes us...
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2023/jul/07/all-right-good-night-review-home-manchester
John Rylands Library, Manchester The actor’s controlled inner outrage reels us in with this eerily prescient tale from 1977 of a dystopia in which art is criminalised It is eerily fitting tha...
From kicking out the teeth of a dead cow onstage to popularising the prefix Mx, the performer has blazed a trail. Now 60, Bond talks about channeling rage into comedy – and nonconformity into r...
Manchester international festival The audience tour the city listening to a series of voice notes sent by a world-weary survivor. But this promenade performance falters with its form and sense of...
Versa Studios, Manchester Being able to watch the delicacy of the performer’s hands as he plays is an extraordinary experience, but it is his exquisitely haunting music which really dazzles R...
Royal Exchange, Manchester Kimber Lee’s punky polemic circles through pastiches of Madama Butterfly, South Pacific and M*A*S*H, dissecting years of racist, imperialist and misogynistic tropes ...
Kay Dick’s novel They was almost forgotten – but its dark predictions are eerily prescient. Perfect fodder for Peake and her new company to bring to life in Manchester In the dead of night,...
HOME, MANCHESTER At times chaotic but never less than virtuosic, Philip Venables’ take on Larry Mitchell’s 70s manifesto is gritty but sensual and extravagant It begins with a woman humming...
Composer Philip Venables and director Ted Huffman’s previous shows have caused panic attacks. How will The Faggots & Their Friends Between Revolutions go down? Ahead of its premiere, the duo ta...
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/jun/26/faggots-friends-revolution-manchester-queerest
At this year’s Manchester International Festival, the former United midfielder is teaming up with art stars Hans Ulrich Obrist and Tino Sehgal for a new work. Sport and performance art, it seem...
The prolific British conceptual artist on the source of his creativity, why he left London – and a coin-based treasure hunt he is making for Manchester’s international festival The real kil...
Playwright Kimber Lee was so shocked when she first saw the musical, she wrote a vitriolic sendup, called untitled f*ck m*ss s**gon play. As it finally hits the stage, she warns: ‘This is no so...
A new theatre show by Helgard Haug weaves together the tragedy of the 2014 flight disaster with the slow decline of her parent. She explains how the two stories came together On 8 March 2014, M...
A Janelle Monáe residency, work by Yayoi Kusama and Ryuichi Sakamoto and a collaboration between footballer Juan Mata and artist Tino Sehgal kick off at this summer’s event A group show by 1...
MANCHESTER CENTRAL Hugo Ticciati and Manchester Camerata created an intimate space for Manchester International festival from which to evoke the busy harmony of urban wildlife Devised by guest...
MANCHESTER CENTRAL; WHITWORTH ART GALLERY; MANCHESTER JEWISH MUSEUM Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s reflections on the death of her father resist the confines of the stage; Forensic Architecture con...