Most Popular Theatre in Manchester
Tue 3 Dec 2024 - Sun 12 Jan 2025
Tue 29 Oct - Sat 2 Nov 2024
Wed 9 Apr - Sat 17 May 2025
Thu 17 Oct 2024 - Tue 16 Dec 2025
Tue 13 Aug - Sun 1 Sep 2024
Thu 16 May - Sat 12 Oct 2024
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 Week an...
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 solidar...
The Best Movies in Cinemas & Streaming
Monday 13 May - Sunday 20 October 2024
If you are looking for a film to watch, ManchesterTheatres. com have rounded-up the best movies currently showing at Manchester's cinemas, and we are offering £5 off tickets too. We've also compiled the best releases new to the streaming s...
The Bridgewater Hall Building Tour
Monday 13 May - Sunday 7 July 2024
Take a look behind the scenes at The Bridgewater Hall, and learn more about Manchester's iconic international concert venue. The entertaining and knowledgeable tour guides will lead you through the building's history, its acoustics and arch...
HOME Film Pass
Monday 13 May - Tuesday 31 December 2024
See everything everywhere (almost all at once) with the new HOME Film Pass! Experience new releases at HOME, any time, as many times as you like for one monthly price. For just £18 you'll also get a range of perks to make the most of your ...
Operation Ouch! Food, Poo and You
Monday 13 May - Sunday 9 June 2024
Dive headfirst into the digestive system for an unforgettable journey of super-sized science with Operation Ouch! Food, Poo and You. Get ready for a special mission to find out what happens to food when we eat. Guided by videos and illust...
Discounted Odeon Cinema Tickets
Monday 13 May - Saturday 31 August 2024
A must for film buffs, treat yourself to any movie, on any day, at any time at Odeon Cinemas in Manchester for a fantastically cheap price (£5.99 Mon-Thu, or £7.99 Mon-Sun): Odeon Trafford Centre (save up to £3.50 per ticket). Odeon Manc...
Discounted Vue Cinema Tickets
Monday 13 May - Tuesday 3 December 2024
A must for film buffs, treat yourself to any movie, on any day, at any time at Vue Cinemas in Manchester for a fantastically cheap price: Yellow voucher - only £7.50: Vue Manchester Printworks. Vue Manchester Red Quayside. Vue Bolton. Vue ...
Made In England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger (12A)
Monday 13 - Thursday 16 May 2024
★★★★★ The work of film-makers Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger is discussed with passion and authority by Martin Scorsese in this richly enjoyable documentary, for which he presents his thoughts and recollections directly to ...
Challengers (15)
Monday 13 - Thursday 16 May 2024
★★★★★ Call Me By Your Name director Luca Guadagnino serves up the sexiest film about tennis you are ever likely to see, with Zendaya's grand slam performance showing she's come along way from the Disney Channel, in more way than o...
Civil War (15)
Monday 13 - Thursday 16 May 2024
★★★✭ Not a film one enjoys as much as experiences, Alex Garland's vision of a future America ravaged by conflict is impressively mounted but lacks political bite. ~ Little White Lies. --- From writer/director Alex Garland and starri...
Omen (15)
Monday 13 - Thursday 16 May 2024
A deserving winner of Cannes' Un Certain Regard New Vision Award, rapper-turned-filmmaker Baloji's magical realist drama is a dazzling debut. Koffi receives a frosty reception when he introduces his pregnant fiance to his family. An inciden...
Ratcatcher (15)
Monday 13 - Thursday 16 May 2024
★★★★ An unsentimental portrait of growing up in Glasgow in the 1970s. Achieving a lyrical realism that often recalls Jean Vigo's 1934 classic L'Atalante, this is amiable, assured and affecting. ~ Radio Times. --- Lynne Ramsay's s...
That They May Face the Rising Sun (15)
Monday 13 - Wednesday 15 May 2024
Capturing a year in the life of a rural, lakeside community in Ireland in the 1970's, That They May Face The Rising Sun is an adaptation of the final novel from John McGahern, one of Ireland's greatest novelists. Joe and Kate Ruttledge have...
The Fall Guy (12A)
Monday 13 - Thursday 16 May 2024
★★★★ Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt dazzle in this delightful action comedy, a loving and supremely entertaining ode to stunt work based on the 80s TV series. ~ The Guardian. --- Inspired by the hit 1980s TV series, a new hilarious, ...
Phil Collins & Oleksiy Radynski - Intervention
Monday 13 May - Tuesday 31 December 2024
A collaborative project by Berlin and Wuppertal-based moving-image artist and filmmaker Phil Collins and Kyiv-based filmmaker and writer Oleksiy Radynski, co-commissioned by HOME and Manchester International Festival, re-contextualising th...
Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry
Monday 13 - Wednesday 15 May 2024
Etero, a 48-year-old woman living in a small village in Georgia, ever wanted a husband. She cherishes her freedom as much as her cakes. But her choice to live alone is the cause of much gossip among her fellow villagers....
La Chimera
Monday 13 - Thursday 16 May 2024
Arthur, a British archaeologist, mourning a long lost love, works with a group of grave robbers hunting ancient Etruscan treasures to sell on the black market in 1980s Italy....
Love Lies Bleeding
Monday 13 - Thursday 16 May 2024
From Director Rose Glass comes an electric new love story; reclusive gym manager Lou falls hard for Jackie, an ambitious bodybuilder headed through town to Vegas in pursuit of her dream. ...
Our Mothers
Monday 13 - Thursday 16 May 2024
The winner of the Cannes Film Festival?s prestigious Camera d?Or, Our Mothers is a gripping and powerfully emotional work by filmmaker C?sar Diaz. ...
CPHT Manchester Hypnotherapy Diploma Course 2024
Monday 13 May - Wednesday 27 November 2024
Book a call on Zoom to chat about the next Solution Focused Hypnotherapy course, starts February 2024 in Manchester. One weekend per month x 10 months...
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 12 belo...
42 Balloons
Tuesday 14 - 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 thousand f...
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 this ...
Lowry Workshops - Dance & Drama (Morning)
Tuesday 14 May 2024 - Thursday 31 July 2025
The Lowry offers a diverse and inclusive creating learning offer. With a variety of workshops linked to curriculum areas, mental health and wellbeing and project work. All workshops and projects are tailor made to support your objectives an...
Red Herring
Tuesday 14 - Thursday 16 May 2024
In this personal and touching documentary about a life cut short, Vincent walks the line between humour and grief to helm this love letter to the relationships that keep us going through the dark stages of life....
The Man in the White Suit
Tuesday 14 May 2024
Sidney Stratton, a genius inventor, develops a fabric that never gets dirty or wears out. In true Ealing style, Mackendrick?s films often followed a naive hero struggling against orthodoxy and improbable odds ? Sidney Stratton in The Man in...
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 Mangler" as...
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 rituals...
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 Theatre's mo...
An Evening with Ginger Alden
Wednesday 15 May 2024
Ginger Alden, the woman who captured Elvis Presley's heart during his final year, heads to the Uk for the first time for a series of captivating shows. Ginger will share her personal experiences and shed light on the misconceptions and rumo...
Music Drop
Wednesday 15 May - Wednesday 24 July 2024
Beatmakers, rappers, singers or anyone interested in making music, Music Drop is the perfect project for you. Whatever your musical background is this project will teach you key music skills and support your musical journey. Music Drop offe...
Little Creatives
Wednesday 15 - Wednesday 22 May 2024
Join The Lowry for their weekly Little Creatives session. This is designed for under 5's with different activities each week. Your little one is sure to have fun and get creative in these workshops. All attendees will need to book a ticket....
Rhod Gilbert
Thursday 16 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 about...
Lucky Stiff
Thursday 16 - Saturday 18 May 2024
Performed by Year 3 Musical Theatre students at The Arden School of Theatre, which was established in association with The Royal Exchange Theatre, Lucky Stiff is a madcap, hilarious romp of a musical that follows Harry Witherspoon's jou...
Sale Gilbert and Sullivan Society - The Gondoliers
Thursday 16 - Saturday 18 May 2024
The award-winning Sale Gilbert and Sullivan Society returns with a wonderful production of The Gondoliers. A tale of Two Gondoliers who discover that one of them is a Prince, stowed away at birth and kept in hiding. But a case of mistaken i...
Pool of London
Thursday 16 May 2024
London?s Docklands, the 1950s: two seamen step ashore from The Dunbar and into the Pool of London. Dan MacDonald is a self-assured ladies? man with a sideline in petty smuggling, while his friend Johnny Lambert - a shy, Jamaican sailor ? ar...
SICK Festival: Dementia Street
Thursday 16 - Saturday 18 May 2024
When his mums battle with dementia ended Smug Roberts wanted to contribute something to the fight against it, so he wrote a play about the seven stages of her cognitive decline. Dementia Street tells her story in reverse, starting at stage ...
Peter Kay
Friday 17 May 2024 - Saturday 20 September 2025
One of Britain's best loved comedians, Peter Kay is finally returning to stand-up comedy with his first live tour in twelve years - a tour which still officially ranks in the Guinness Book of World Records as the biggest selling comedy tour...
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 thei...
Help I Sexted My Boss
Friday 17 May 2024
Life is full of personal calamities. Thankfully, William Hanson and Jordan North are here to help you navigate the daily struggles of modern life. Well, most of the time... William and Jordan's lives couldn't be more different. One's more B...
Jamali Maddix
Friday 17 May 2024
As seen on Taskmaster (Channel4), Frankie Boyle's New World Order (BBC2) and his critically acclaimed series Hate Thy Neighbor for Vice, comedian Jamali Maddix is heading out on tour. With his new show, King Crud, the stand up comedi...
Manchester Camerata - Mozart, Made in Manchester
Friday 17 May 2024
Manchester Camerata are back with another edition of their hugely successful Mozart, Made in Manchester series. Achieving 5-Star reviews from The Telegraph and BBC Music Magazine, this is Mozart, at his very best, performed with the undenia...
Manford's Comedy Club
Friday 17 May - Friday 29 November 2024
Bringing the best comedians to a theatre near you. Every show has a different line-up of four top comedians, all chosen by Jason Manford! Many comedians from TV plus the best of the UK and International comedy circuit. Live at the Apollo.. ...
Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg
Friday 17 May 2024
Featuring Scarlett Johansson as the voice of Anita Pallenberg, Alexis Bloom and Svetlana Zill's intimate documentary is about a woman who was at many points in her life a newspaper headline: Anita Pallenberg was a "rock n' roll goddess," a...
Tiger Stripes (CBTA)
Friday 17 May 2024
★★★✭ "Malaysian director Amanda Nell Eu's debut about a young girl discovering the truth behind her rebellious nature bristles with supernatural energy thanks to a tremendous young cast." ~ The Guardian. Described as Malaysian 'Mean...