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Sign inA starter trail through Manchester performance: historic theatre, youth-led work, festival-scale production and independent stages. It is deliberately compact until the next Manchester venue batch expands the route.
6 venues
Begin with Manchester's city-centre theatre institution.
Royal Exchange Theatre is a major Manchester theatre in St Ann's Square, presenting plays, performance and public cultural programmes from the city centre.
Add a performance space shaped by young people, community and experiment.
Contact is a Manchester theatre on Oxford Road with a public programme rooted in performance, young people, community arts and experimental work.
Include the city's festival-scale contemporary production house.
Factory International is a major Manchester multi-arts institution on Water Street, spanning theatre, performance, visual arts, music and festival-scale work.
Finish with an independent theatre in Ancoats.
Hope Mill Theatre is an independent Manchester theatre in Ancoats, presenting theatre, performance and musical theatre from Pollard Street.
Manchester's purpose-built home for contemporary theatre, cinema and visual art.
HOME is Manchester's leading purpose-built centre for contemporary theatre, cinema and visual art, bringing ambitious international work together with new voices from the city. It…
Salford Quays' major performing arts centre, paired with galleries shaped by L. S. Lowry's legacy.
The Lowry is Salford Quays' major performing and visual arts centre, pairing two theatres with galleries shaped by the work and legacy of L. S. Lowry. Its broad programme works fo…