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Even These Things at the Royal Exchange
30 years after the IRA bomb, a new Royal Exchange play traces three centuries of Manchester history as it plays out through individual lives.
From £12.00Written by Johnny James
RNCM Young Explorers: Musical Theatre Magic
The Untold Orchestra bring musical theatre hits to RNCM’s Young Explorers, opening orchestral music into something looser, more collective and fun.
From £8.00
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The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher at Liverpool Everyman
In this world premiere, Hilary Mantel’s audacious short story becomes a darkly comic psychological thriller about power, class and political anger.
From £11.00
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Out Here at Castlefield Gallery
Out Here at Castlefield Gallery shifts environmental questions out of the abstract and back into the natural materials beneath our feet.
Free entry
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Everything and Nothing at The Portico Library
A fascinating archival exhibition uncovers the forgotten stories of people who have helped shape The Portico Library’s 220-year history.
Free entry
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Michaela Yearwood-Dan: The Practice of Liberation at The Whitworth
Michaela Yearwood-Dan’s first UK institutional exhibition layers painting, ceramics and sound to explore liberation across personal and institutional histories.
Free entry
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All That Matters at The Edge
Alan Jones’s photography exhibition in Chorlton explores fragments of impossibly large systems through images of discarded objects with long afterlives.
Free entry
Mleko at YES Basement
Two songs in, Manchester’s MLEKO are already building a cult following, blending beauty and abrasion to devastating effect.
From £11.80
Belle Chen at Hallé St Michael’s
Belle Chen drifts through imagined landscapes, blending piano, electronics and improvisation into something at once precise and mysterious.
From £16.50
Manchester Collective: Patterns in Repeat at Aviva Studios
Four of contemporary music’s most exciting female composers come together in Manchester Collective’s latest daring programme.
From £14.00
SILVERWINGKILLER at The White Hotel
A key name in a local music scene increasingly coming to national attention, SILVERWINGKILLER bring their maximalist electronic punk to The White Hotel.
From £11.50
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Black Country Type II at The Modernist
The Black Country. Not always the first place people associate with colour, design and typography – but Tom Hicks has spent years looking closely enough to challenge that.
Free entry