FAMILY EVENTS IN MANCHESTER
FAMILY EVENTS IN MANCHESTER
Most Popular Family Events in Manchester
Tue 3 Dec 2024 - Sun 12 Jan 2025
Tue 30 Jul - Sat 10 Aug 2024
Tue 13 Aug - Sun 1 Sep 2024
Sun 28 Jul - Sun 1 Sep 2024
Sat 27 Jul - Sun 3 Nov 2024
Wed 31 Jul - Sun 11 Aug 2024
Batman Unmasked - The Exhibition
Saturday 27 July - Wednesday 14 August 2024
Mark the 85th Anniversary of DC's most iconic Super Hero, Batman in an all-new experience showing never-before-seen UK collection of original props, vehicles, and costumes direct from the archives at Batman Unmasked. Fans of all ages will b...
Jurassic World - The Exhibition
Saturday 27 July - Sunday 3 November 2024
Welcome to Jurassic World Get closer to dinosaurs than ever before at Jurassic World: The Exhibition! Based on one of the biggest blockbusters in cinema history, the exhibition will immerse audiences of all ages in scenes of the beloved mov...
Charlie Cook's Favourite Book
Saturday 27 July - Sunday 4 August 2024
Based on the original book written by Julia Donaldson and illustrated by Axel Scheffler, delve into a range of books with Charlie Cook, which are brought to life with puppetry and enchanting songs. Charlie loves reading. Especially books ab...
The 100 Story Hotel
Saturday 27 July - Thursday 31 October 2024
Created with bestselling, multi-award-winning author and illustrator Rob Biddulph and Discover Children's Story Centre. This interactive world of play and storytelling has something for everyone aged 1-8 and their families. Hello and welc...
SIX Dance Party
Sunday 28 July - Sunday 1 September 2024
Don't lose your head! Join the Lowry's SIX inspired dance party to learn some of the famous moves from the show. In this free 45 minute session you will work with a professional dancer to learn some of the legendary SIX choreography. Recomm...
101 Dalmatians
Tuesday 30 July - Saturday 10 August 2024
The smash hit musical 101 Dalmatians is going on tour, starring Kym Marsh (Coronation Street, Hear'say) as the greatest villain of them all, Cruella De Vil. When fashionista Cruella de Vil plots to swipe all the Dalmatian puppies in town to...
Lowry Workshops - Dance & Drama (Morning)
Tuesday 30 July 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...
Bluey's Big Play
Wednesday 31 July - Sunday 11 August 2024
When Dad feels like a little bit of Sunday afternoon time out, Bluey and Bingo have other plans! Join them as they pull out all of the games and cleverness at their disposal to get Dad off that bean bag. Bluey's Big Play is a brand-new thea...
Shark in the Park
Friday 2 - Sunday 4 August 2024
Don't miss this fin-tastic family musical based on the book series! Timothy Pope is looking through his telescope - but wait, is that a Shark, in the Park!? From the creative team behind The Hairy Maclary Show and You Choose - see all three...
Horrible Histories - Rotten Royals
Sunday 4 August 2024
We all want to meet people from history. The trouble is everyone is dead! So Horrible Histories is back in 2024 with revolting rulers and mad monarchs from Britain'sbarmypast! Would you be wooed by Richard the Lionheart? Are you ready for a...
Family Friday: Theatre Discovery Tour
Friday 9 - Friday 16 August 2024
Family Friday is here! We're throwing open our doors this Friday in August to welcome families to explore our building on an family friendly tour!Palace Tours are a great way to for little ones to explore the Grade II listed theatre, hear a...
Milkshake Live - Milkshake on Holiday
Sunday 11 August 2024
Milkshake! Live is back with a brand-new show! Join your favourite Milkshake! friends on Holiday with Dora, Pip and Posey, Blue from Blues Clues and You!, Milo, Milkshake! Monkey plus two of your Milkshake! presenters for an all-new adventu...
SIX
Tuesday 13 August - Sunday 1 September 2024
The international smash hit musical SIX is back! Multi award-winning with a spectacularly successful studio album adored on playlists across the globe, this sell-out Tudor take-off has 'an incredibly strong and powerful message. Boundary-pu...
Michael Flatley's Lord Of The Dance
Tuesday 13 - Sunday 18 August 2024
After celebrating the 25th anniversary of Lord of the Dance in 2022, and a lifetime of standing ovations, Michael Flatley is back with a dazzling revival of his iconic dance extravaganza. The 2024 tour promises to be an extraordinary jour...
The 13-Storey Treehouse
Thursday 15 - Sunday 18 August 2024
Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton's hilarious, multi award-winning book The 13-Storey Treehouse comes to life on stage!Who wouldn't want to live in a treehouse? Especially a 13-storey treehouse that has everything including a bowling alley, a...
The Pop Party
Thursday 15 August 2024
Get ready for a dazzling explosion of music, dance, and excitement as children's concert sensation, Pop Party, takes the stage! This exhilarating live concert, made especially for kids, brings the latest trending TikTok hits to life in vib...
Fireman Sam
Friday 16 August 2024
rand New for 2024. Norman wants to go on an adventure to impress his friends, so when two famous animal explorers arrive in Pontypandy, he decides to follow them into the mountains. But when Norman discovers a rare red squirrel, one of the...
Wonderland In Alice
Friday 16 - Saturday 17 August 2024
Ready to fall down the rabbit hole? British Youth Musical Theatre, in collaboration with Christopher Tendai Company present Wonderland In Alice, a brand new musical that re-imagines Lewis Caroll's classic tale of self-discovery and escapism...
The Wizarding Adventure
Friday 16 August - Wednesday 23 October 2024
It's a kind of magic! Are you ready to attend your first day at the Grand Old School of Wizardry. Join the madcap mages and wacky witches of the faculty on a spellbinding adventure to work on your wand waving, brush up on your broomstick sk...
Pop Princesses
Tuesday 20 August 2024
This is the children's pop concert with a big difference. A musical spectacular starring four fabulous Fairy tale Princesses who just love to sing! It's the perfect mix. Featuring a soundtrack of top pop hits from artists such as Little Mix...
Enchanted Afternoons - Princess Concert
Saturday 31 August 2024
The Enchanted Afternoons' Princess Concert is a magical journey into the world of enchantment! Step into a world where fairy tales collide with pop sensations. Be enchanted by the heartwarming story of six princesses who dared to dream beyo...
Annie (The Drama Dept Amateur Production)
Tuesday 17 - Saturday 21 September 2024
Bredbury's award-winning performing arts Academy, The Drama Dept, present their amateur production of Annie. Set in 1930s New York during The Great Depression, brave young Annie is forced to live a life of misery at Miss Hannigan's orphanag...
War Horse
Wednesday 18 - Saturday 28 September 2024
The Global Phenomenon Returns. The National Theatre's acclaimed production returns in an all-new UK tour. War Horse is an unforgettable theatrical experience which takes audiences on an extraordinary journey from the fields of rural Devon ...
Garry Starr - Monkeys Everywhere
Friday 20 - Sunday 22 September 2024
Join award-winning performer Damien Warren-Smith as he tries to find a calmer place to be amongst the madness of the monkey business that fills his mind in this show for all ages - but especially for those who can't always keep their monke...
COMEDYSPORTZ
Saturday 21 September 2024 - Saturday 22 February 2025
You've seen football. You've seen tennis. But have you seen Comedy as a sport? Then you don't want to miss this all ages, all action, all improvised competitive comedy show! Two teams battle it out for laughs with quick-witted gags, games, ...
King Arthur
Tuesday 24 - Saturday 28 September 2024
Award-winning funny men, Le Navet Bete, return to the stage with a a brand-new laugh-out-loud show for theatre. This hilarious retelling of the Arthurian legends, suitable for the whole family, will have audiences crying with laughter and b...
THE HIDDEN GARDEN
Saturday 28 - Sunday 29 September 2024
Theatre Company Blah Blah Blah presents a magical tale of a blooming unlikely friendship. Hidden amongst the concrete high-rises and the redbrick buildings is something pretty unexpected. A place bursting with colour where flowers, fruits ...
The Gruffalo
Thursday 3 - Saturday 5 October 2024
A mouse took a stroll through the deep dark wood... Join Mouse on a daring adventure through the deep, dark wood in Tall Stories' magical, musical adaptation of the classic picture book by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler. Searching for h...
Dear Zoo
Saturday 5 - Sunday 6 October 2024
Rod Campbell's much-loved lift the flap book has been a firm favourite with children and parents for nearly forty years. Lovingly adapted for the stage, his distinctive illustrations leap from the page in this colourful show packed full of ...
A Tiger's Tale
Sunday 6 October 2024
M6 Theatre Company presents a fantastical production by the award-winning playwright Mike Kenny. Based on the extraordinary story of Fenella, the Holmfirth Tiger, A Tiger's Tale is a high-spirited balancing act of circus, puppetry, live mus...
Grease
Tuesday 8 - Saturday 19 October 2024
After a whirlwind summer romance, leather-clad greaser Danny and girl-next-door Sandy are unexpectedly reunited when she transfers to Rydell High for senior year. But can they survive the trials and tribulations of teenage life and find tru...
Insomniac's Fable
Sunday 13 October 2024
Insomniac's Fable is a contemporary circus and dance piece presented by Finland's Agit-Cirk featuring world class performers that chronicles a protagonist's pursuit of idealised love. But as with all dreams, things can take a surreal turn a...
Amazing Animals
Sunday 13 October 2024
A show dedicated to and celebrating all creatures great and small. The only show around that you get to see life sized crocodiles, sloths, reindeer, dinosaurs, penguins, orangutans and maybe even a spraying skunk bursting out onto the stage...
Grooving with Pirates
Sunday 13 October 2024
Come on a swashbuckling adventure with family favourite Groove Baby as it sails the seas in this exciting, jazz and funk fuelled show especially for 3-7 year olds and their grown-up crews. Grooving With Pirates is an animated and live-actio...
Dinosaur World Live
Friday 18 - Sunday 20 October 2024
Dare to experience the dangers and delights of Dinosaur World Live in this roarsome interactive show for all the family - now returning to The Lowry due to popular demand! Grab your compass and join our intrepid explorer across uncharted te...
The Chronicles of Atom & Luna
Sunday 20 October 2024
An epic fairytale by Murray Lachlan Young, The Chronicles of Atom & Luna is a story about strong and curious siblings who go on a magical adventure through nature, set in a world full of myths and magic. Think Grimm Fairy Tales meets His ...
The Elmer Adventure
Tuesday 22 - Saturday 26 October 2024
Join three friends on a joyful jungle adventure in Tall Stories' magical, musical adaptation of the much-loved Elmer books by David McKee. Everyone loves the stories about Elmer the patchwork elephant - whether he's pretending to be an ordi...
Room on the Broom
Tuesday 22 - Thursday 24 October 2024
Iggety ziggety zaggety zoom! Jump on board the broom with the witch and her cat in Tall Stories' fun-filled adaptation of Room on the Broom, the best-selling picture book by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler. The witch and her cat are trav...
Toot
Friday 25 October 2024
MishMash Production's Toot! Ensemble deliver a fun family concert that's perfect 7 to 11-year-olds and their families. Travel around the world with music from all over the globe in a performance filled with warmth, excitement, and magic. Be...
Nick Cope's Family Show
Sunday 27 October 2024
Nick Cope has been writing and recording his beautiful and totally unique songs for children and their families for over 10 years, he performs with his guitar and animations to sell-out crowds all over the country. He has an incredible fan ...
The Wizard Of Oz (October Half Term Musical)
Monday 28 October - Sunday 3 November 2024
This amateur production of The Wizard of Oz is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals Ltd. on behalf of Tams-Witmark LLC. Based on the 1939 MGM film, this stage classic features the well-loved songs "Merry Old Land of Oz",...
Run, Rebel
Tuesday 29 October - Saturday 2 November 2024
Pilot Theatre brings you an electrifying adaptation of Manjeet Mann's acclaimed novel. Amber is trapped - by her family's rules, by their expectations, by her own fears. But on the running track she is completely free. As her body speeds up...
There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly
Friday 1 November 2024
There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly. I don't know why she swallowed a fly... But The People's Theatre Company do! And now you can too as they bring the world's best loved nonsense rhyme to life just in time to celebrate the 50th anniv...
The Gruffalo
Saturday 2 - Sunday 3 November 2024
A mouse took a stroll through the deep dark wood... Join Mouse on a daring adventure through the deep, dark wood in Tall Stories' magical, musical adaptation of the classic picture book by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler. Searching for h...
Nature Elly
Sunday 10 November 2024
A puppet theatre show created especially for 2-5 year olds, full of interactive fun, beautifully written original music and a cast of stunning and adorable animal puppets for little ones to meet. Created by award-winning Barmpot Theatre, in...
Elf The Musical
Tuesday 12 - Sunday 17 November 2024
Based on the cherished 2003 New Line Cinema hit, Elf features songs by Tony Award nominees Matthew Sklar and Chad Beguelin (Disney's Aladdin On Broadway, The Wedding Singer), with a book by Tony Award winners Thomas Meehan (Annie, The Produ...
Wonder Boy
Tuesday 12 - Saturday 16 November 2024
Olivier Award-winner Sally Cookson (A Monster Calls) directs the critically acclaimed Bristol Old Vic production of WONDER BOY by Ross Willis, a heart-warming and inspiring story about the power of communication for ages 12+ Sonny is twelve...
Opera North - The Big Opera Adventure
Saturday 16 November 2024
A thrilling quest for all the family. Join the Orchestra of Opera North and singers on a madcap journey to meet some of opera's most colourful characters - in just 50 minutes! In this new family-friendly show, you'll encounter heroes and vi...
The Extraordinary Time-Travelling Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Saturday 16 November 2024
Amazing tales, elegantly told. The Extraordinary Time-Travelling Adventures of Baron Munchausen is a multi award-winning, family friendly, improvised storytelling show. There will be pirates and princesses, unicorns and dragons, spacemen an...
Crown Ballet - The Nutcracker
Wednesday 20 November 2024
A wonderful treat full of glitter for the whole family, and an ideal introduction to audiences of any age to the magic that is classical ballet, Moldova's Crown Ballet returns to the UK to enchant you with their delightful production of an ...
The Jungle Book
Friday 22 November 2024 - Sunday 5 January 2025
A wild & wonderful adventure for Christmas 2024 Swing into the jungle this festive season and join man-cub Mowgli and his friends Baloo the bear, Bagheera the panther, a gang of mischievous monkeys and a pack of wily wolves in this enchanti...
