Manchester Royal Exchange Theatre associate artistic director Matthew Xia makes his main-stage debut this Christmas with Stephen Sondheim’s Tony Award-winning fairy-tale Into The Woods.
The composer and former BBC Radio 1Xtra presenter, said, “the music and lyricism of Sondheim’s work is intricate and sublime.
"Into The Woods is a brilliantly dark and witty morality tale and so very fitting for a modern day city as complex and diverse as Manchester. It explores a fantastical community of fairy-tale characters who are more like us modern city dwellers than we might think.”
It runs from December 4 to January 16.