Manchester International Festival

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Directed by Reggie 'Regg Roc' Gray

Bells for Peace

Yoko Ono

Invisible Cities

Italo Calvino, adapted by Lolita Chakrabarti

Maggie the Cat

Trajal Harrell

Re:Creating Europe

Tao of Glass

Philip Glass and Phelim McDermott

The Anvil: An Elegy for Peterloo

The Fountainhead

Based on the book by Ayn Rand

The Nico Project

E V Crowe

Tree

Idris Elba and Kwame Kwei-Armah

Factory workers of the future

28 September 2020

Manchester International Festival has created a skills and training programme set to benefit up to 10,000 unemployed young people.

MIF strengthens artistic team

7 September 2020

Manchester International Festival has three new additions to its artistic advisory team.

Make a Manchester theatre date with MIF

18 August 2020

Manchester International Festival is offering Thursday afternoon 'dates' for fellow creatives.

Riz Ahmed show for Manchester's MIF

16 February 2020

Manchester International Festival presents a world première of a live music show from musician, storyteller, actor and activist Riz Ahmed.

New York opportunity for trio

12 January 2020

Manchester International Festival and Arts Council England will be supporting English artists in New York.

£50m festival bonus for Manchester

10 November 2019

This year’s Manchester International Festival delivered an economic impact of £50m.

Rambert wins Venice prize for new MIF show

2 July 2019

Rambert has won the Fedora – Van Cleef & Arpels Prize for Ballet for Invisible Cities, to première as part of this year's Manchester International Festival this month.

Two versions of story for Studio Creole

23 June 2019

Irish film and theatre actor Lisa Dwan stars in Studio Créole for the Manchester International Festival, a performance piece that reinvents the language lab.

Tree takes root in city festival

19 May 2019

Tree will receive its world première this July at Manchester International Festival, before transferring to London.

MIF 2019: Yoko Ono, David Lynch, Maxine Peake, Philip Glass, Skepta, Ivo van Hove and more

8 March 2019

The full programme for the 2019 Manchester International Festival includes new collaborations between Philip Glass and Phelim McDermott and between Idris Elba and Kwame Kwei-Armah, as well as Maxine Peake as iconic singer Nico and an adaptation of Invisible Cities by Lolita Chakrabarti with Leo Warner, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Rambert.

Big names line up for MIF

4 November 2018

Yoko Ono, Idris Elba, Kwame Kwei-Armah and Skepta are part of next year’s Manchester International Festival.