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6–8 July 2023

Yandass, Collin Shay, Katherine Goforth, Kerry Bursey, Kit Green, Jacob Garside, Deepa Johnny, Eric Lamb, Meriel Price, Sally Swanson, Conor Gricmanis, Themba Mvula

The Faggots and their Friends Between Revolutions

Ted Huffman and Philip Venables, based on the novel by Larry Mitchell and Ned...

Factory International for Manchester International Festival

HOME Manchester

28 June–2 July 2023

Seven and a Half Years

Mark Glentworth-book, music and lyrics

MMG Music Productions

Salford Arts Theatre, Salford

14–15 July 2023

They

Kay Dick, adapted by Maxine Peake, Sarah Frankcom and Imogen Knight

Factory International

The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, Manchester

5–9 July 2023

Mei Mac (Kim) & Tom Weston-Jones (Clarke)

untitled fck mss s**gon play

Kimber Lee

Royal Exchange Theatre, Factory International for Manchester International Festival, Young Vic and Headlong

Royal Exchange Theatre

24 June–22 July 2023

Features

Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's…

27 January 2023

A reviewer checks out First Breath—a light sculpture projected into the sky at The Factory, the new base of The Manchester International Festival.

Walking ‘The Walk’: Taking part in 'When the Birds Land'

3 November 2021

A reviewer takes part in the climax of an event to raise awareness of challenges facing refugees by welcoming Little Amal to Manchester.

News

Inflatable fun for Manchester festival

2 July 2023

Manchester International Festival returns with new work from Ryan Gander, Maxine Peake, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Tino Sehgal and Juan Mata and more.

Manchester gets a Dream Space

25 June 2023

As Manchester International Festival prepares to take over the city, Factory International releases a new podcast, Dream Space.

World première of Bruntwood winner

22 May 2023

The cast for Kimber Lee’s untitled f*ck m*ss s**gon play directed by Manchester Royal Exchange joint artistic director Roy Alexander Weise has been finalised.

MIF23 features Maxine Peake, Slung Low, Blast Theory, Benji Reid and more

16 March 2023

The 2023 Manchester International Festival programme has been announced, running from 29 June to 16 July.

Kagami event for Manchester

26 February 2023

Tin Drum—the mixed reality content production studio—will debut Kagami in New York and Manchester this summer.

Factory ready for June

23 December 2022

Factory International, Manchester’s new landmark cultural space, will welcome its first visitors in June.

Factory towers of light

20 November 2022

Luke Jerram’s new public artwork First Breath will be seen on the banks of the River Irwell outside Manchester’s Factory International.

Free Your Mind creative team: Danny Boyle, Michael 'Mikey J' Asante, Es Devlin, Kenrick 'H2O' Sandy

Danny Boyle to open Manchester Factory International

29 September 2022

Manchester International Festival's new permanent venue is to open with a production based on The Matrix from Danny Boyle, Sabrina Mahfouz, Kenrick 'H2O' Sandy and Mikey J Asante.

Sound support from MIF

1 February 2022

Mali Hayes, Test Card Girl and Dirty Freud are amongst artists to receive support from Manchester International Festival’s MIF Sounds scheme.

City festival's new creative director

26 January 2022

Low Kee Hong has been appointed creative director for Manchester International Festival.

Brit productions go Stateside

6 December 2021

Arts Council England, Manchester International Festival and The Public Theater present two productions at New York’s Under The Radar Festival.

Thank You Very Much for European tour

15 October 2021

Award-winning dance show Thank You Very Much by Claire Cunningham with National Theatre of Scotland and Manchester International Festival will tour Switzerland, Sweden and Germany.

Little Amal completes her journey

10 October 2021

Manchester International Festival stages the finale event of The Walk, the culmination of the remarkable journey of a 3.5m-tall puppet.