Manchester’s first permanent theatre, the Theatre Royal, was established in Spring Gardens but burned down four years later in 1779. It re-opened again in 1790, and continued until its lease ...

Experts have sounded the alarm about many Mancunian architectural gems we may lose - but the Hotspur Press fire has reminded everyone how precarious their futures are ...

As a prologue to Manchester’s cultural regeneration, in 1976 the Royal Exchange Theatre arrives in its iconic spaceship module, equipped with 755 seats, making it the world’s largest theatre in the ...

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The play initially looks like it will be excerpts from speeches interspersed with some 'backstage' banter between the delegates, but it soon becomes much more than that, as the focus is more on the ...

There's no shortage of innovative theatre in Manchester. From established centres like The Royal Exchange and HOME to new grass-roots collectives like Northern Rep, there's something for everyone ...

"The city looks as if it has been built to withstand foul weather" – J. B. Priestley Looking at Manchester's Royal Exchange, it can be difficult to remember a time when the theatre was not the ...

A Manchester theatre is taking performances out of the city centre with a pop-up performance space. The Den is a lightweight, 180-seat portable auditorium designed to be built and dismantled by ...

The shortlist for the Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting 2025, based at Manchester's Royal Exchange Theatre and sponsored by Manchester-based property company Bruntwood, has been released.

With a bloodthirsty, corpse-devouring plant called Audrey at the centre of events, we can only be in the Little Shop of Horrors. It’s a far cry from Jack and the Beanstalk, but the Royal Exchange is ...

A Manchester theatre was forced to cancel a performance just hours before the show had been due to take place on Tuesday (September 10). On Friday, the Royal Exchange Theatre began its run of a ...

Theatre review by Phil Radcliffe. Seeing Miss Julie played in-the-round would, I suspect, have delighted Strindberg. ... Miss Julie, Royal Exchange, Manchester Maxine Peake is electrifying in a ...