Articles relating to: Royal Exchange Theatre
Theatre Review: Mother Courage and Her Children, Royal Exchange, Manchester
“The thing about Brecht,” says Housemate, “is you’re not supposed to feel empathy towards the characters.”
Read the full story..Review: Bird, Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester
Katherine Chandler’s coming-of-age tale was the winner of a Judges’ Award in the 2013 Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting.
Read the full story..Review: Husbands & Sons, Royal Exchange, Manchester
Typical! You wait ages for a D.H. Lawrence play, then three come along at once.
Read the full story..SO HERE WE ARE: what happens when nothing happens
SO HERE WE ARE is a play about young lives cut short and a touching portrait of childhood friendships under strain in adult life. Director Steven Atkinson writes about the upcoming production at Manchester’s Royal Exchange.
Read the full story..Pre-Theatre Eats: Royal Exchange, Manchester
In the first of a new series focusing on pre-theatre eats in the North West, Northern Soul’s Guy Kilty visits three restaurants within a stone’s throw of Manchester’s Royal Exchange.
Read the full story..Film Review: Maxine Peake as Hamlet
One of the hottest theatre tickets of the last few years has been Maxine Peake as Hamlet at Manchester’s Royal Exchange.
Read the full story..Anna Jordan: YEN and the Bruntwood Prize
There’s no doubt that the Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting has changed the world of new theatre writing very much for the better.
Read the full story..Manchester Theatre Awards: celebrating a theatre-rich city
It’s easy to argue that all awards are pointless and the dance that takes place between nominations being announced and tearful acceptance speeches (or bitter recriminations in the pub afterwards) is an especially pointless sideshow to the real art already created elsewhere. Okay. I feel your indifference.
Read the full story..Review: Little Shop of Horrors, Royal Exchange
Scan your local school noticeboards and community halls and you might notice a peculiar thing: everyone’s putting on Little Shop of Horrors these days.
Read the full story..John Lahr talks to Northern Soul about Tennessee Williams
When it comes to the performing arts, you’d have to say that John Lahr is steeped in them.
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