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Directed by Reggie 'Regg Roc' Gray

Young Identity

Great Northern Warehouse

5–7 July 2019

Bells for Peace

Yoko Ono

Cathedral Gardens

4 July 2019

Invisible Cities

Italo Calvino, adapted by Lolita Chakrabarti

59 Productions and Rambert

Mayfield, Manchester

5–14 July 2019

Maggie the Cat

Trajal Harrell

The Dancehouse, Manchester

11–14 July 2019

Re:Creating Europe

Internationaal Theater Amsterdam, De Balie and Manchester International Festival

Lyric Theatre, The Lowry

12 July 2019

Tao of Glass

Philip Glass and Phelim McDermott

Improbable

Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester

15–20 July 2019

The Anvil: An Elegy for Peterloo

ANU

Locations throughout Manchester

7 July 2019

The Fountainhead

Based on the book by Ayn Rand

International Theater Amsterdam

The Lowry, Salford

10–13 July 2019

The Nico Project

E V Crowe

The Stoller Hall, Manchester

12–21 July 2019

Tree

Idris Elba and Kwame Kwei-Armah

Manchester International Festival, Young Vic and Green Door Pictures

Upper Campfield Market, Manchester

4–13 July 2019

News

City festival warms up for summer

13 December 2020

Manchester International Festival plans to return July 1–18, but meantime launches new commissions, an international showcase and other collaborations.

Manchester Festival's online 'one-off'

1 November 2020

Riz Ahmed will give a one-off livestream performance of The Long Goodbye on December 19.

Amal heads towards Manchester

13 October 2020

Manchester International Festival’s first event for next year is The Walk, the culmination of an extraordinary journey from Gaziantep in Turkey to Manchester.

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.

Theatre-maker Simone French and drag act Cheddar Gorgeous

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.