What's on in May in Manchester
Disney's Aladdin
Wednesday 22 May - Sunday 7 Jul 2024
From the producers that brought you The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast and Frozen, comes the spectacular Disney Broadway and West End musical ALADDIN. Don't miss out on Disney's enchanting Aladdin musical, an extraordinary theatrical ...
Jesus Christ Superstar
Tuesday 21 - Saturday 25 May 2024
An Album That Inspired A Revolution. A Revelation That Changed The World. A Reinvention For This Millennium.
Timothy Sheader (Crazy for You, Into the Woods) directs this mesmerizing new production of the iconic global phenomenon, JESU...
42 Balloons
Sunday 12 - Sunday 19 May 2024
2nd of July 1982. Using a lawn chair and approximately 42 helium-filled weather balloons, truck driver Larry Walters defied all the odds (and FAA airspace regulations!) to make his lifelong dream a reality and fly sixteen thous...
Kay Mellor's The Syndicate
Friday 17 - Sunday 19 May 2024
Based on her hit BBC TV show that entertained millions of viewers over four series, The Syndicate is a new stage play by the legendary Kay Mellor, that follows five supermarket employees whose lottery syndicate numbers come in, just as...
Sweat
Monday 13 - Saturday 25 May 2024
A sweeping state-of-the-nation play that embraces huge political and economic ideas in a magnificent gritty social drama. Nottage's stunning writing pits friend against friend as social and racial tensions, once buried by a sense of so...
Little Shop of Horrors
Tuesday 14 - Saturday 18 May 2024
The mean green monster musical explodes into Bolton!
Downtown on Skid Row, weedy flower shop assistant Seymour is down on his luck until he stumbles across a mysterious new plant with killer potential. Fame and fortune follow but will...
Strictly Come Dancing - The Professionals
Tuesday 14 - Wednesday 15 May 2024
Join a dazzling dozen of the world's best professional dancers as they take to the road next year for the 2024 official Strictly Come Dancing: The Professionals UK Tour.
This exhilarating show will showcase the exceptional talent of ...
Hallé - Tony Bennett: the Music and Songs of a Legend
Saturday 25 May 2024
From his recording debut in the 1950s to his collaboration with Lady Gaga, Tony Bennett's seventy-year career has been characterised by class, style and an ear for a great song.
In this spectacular programme, conductor Richard Balcomb...
Some Enchanted Evening
Saturday 25 May 2024
A celebration of golden age showtunes
Presented by the English Musical Theatre Orchestra and Guests
Join us for an enchanting evening of your favorite musicals, brought to life in vibrant technicolor by the English Musical Theatre Or...
Mind Mangler - Member of the Tragic Circle
Wednesday 15 - Saturday 18 May 2024
Henry Lewis and Jonathan Sayer, the multi award-winning team behind the sold-out global smash hit The Play That Goes Wrong and the BBC TV series The Goes Wrong Show, star in this hilarious new comedy by Mischief.
Join the "Mind Mangle...
Rhod Gilbert
Saturday 25 May 2024
Rhod is embarking on a full UK & Ireland tour playing more than 90 dates, and running until October 2025. Previously, Rhod was dealing with some pretty pungent life citrus, and an idiot called John. Little did he know that things were ...
Punt and Dennis
Monday 13 May 2024
Hugh Dennis and Steve Punt are back on tour for the first time in 10 years.
Older but not really much wiser, Punt and Dennis are returning to what they do best. What have they learned from a decade of following the news for Mock The We...
All Killa No Filla - Live
Friday 24 May 2024
The smash-hit true crime comedy podcast heads out on its biggest tour yet!
To celebrate ten years of talking murder, oversharing, and rapidly veering off topic, Kiri & Rachel hit the road and head to some of their favourite venues in ...
Robin/Red/Breast
Wednesday 15 - Sunday 26 May 2024
An intimate, immersive and voyeuristic take on a folk horror classic
Norah is an outsider in the village. A TV script editor and city dweller seeking a slower pace of life after a breakup. But the village is not as it seems. Ancient r...
Frankie Goes To Bollywood
Wednesday 15 - Saturday 25 May 2024
A billion colour musical
From the makers of Britain's Got Bhangra comes the world premiere of a new British musical.
Get ready to be swept away into the dazzling world of Bollywood!
Selling out it's opening run in London, Rifco Thea...
Testmatch
Thursday 23 May - Saturday 1 Jun 2024
Cricket's past & present collide in this compelling new play
It makes the whole of western history make sense, this weather.
If I had to live in this, I'd get off this island as fast as I possibly could,
And take over whatever land ...
The Audience
Monday 20 - Saturday 25 May 2024
Altrincham Garrick Playhouse present this multi-award winning play by the acclaimed writer Peter Morgan (“The Queen” and Netflix's “The Crown”).
Spanning sixty years from the 1950s through to the 21st century, ...
The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show
Tuesday 28 May - Saturday 1 Jun 2024
Dive into Eric Carle's bright and colourful world as his beloved stories are transformed from page to stage using a menagerie of 75 lovable puppets and charming music. Featuring your favourite titles: Brown Bear, Brown Bear, 10 Little ...
Day Out With Thomas at East Lancashire Railway
Saturday 3 August - Sunday 6 Oct 2024
Peep! Peep! Join Thomas & Friends for a day of family fun at East Lancashire Railway. Take a train ride with Thomas, meet Sir Topham Hatt and join Sodor Station Sweepers Rusty & Dusty for a trainload of excitement.
There will be lots ...
Rude Science
Sunday 26 May 2024
The naughtiest, funniest, most revolting science show in the world.
Brace yourselves for BBC Gastronaut Stefan Gates' revolutionary, high-tech, highly-explosive new show, packed with outrageous science stunts. On the surface it's a ri...
