Most Popular Theatre in Manchester
Thu 26 Mar - Tue 28 Apr 2026
Wed 20 Aug - Sat 4 Oct 2025
Wed 9 Apr - Sat 17 May 2025
Wed 30 Apr 2025 - Fri 13 Feb 2026
Glorious!
Tuesday 25 - Sunday 30 March 2025
Hope Mill Theatre Presents "GLORIOUS!" The True Story of Florence Foster Jenkins-The Worst Singer in the World. Written by Peter Quilter and Directed by Kirk Jameson "GLORIOUS!" will star Wendi Peters as Florence Foster Jenkins. Join ...
Cruel Intentions
Tuesday 25 - Saturday 29 March 2025
Packed with 90s pop classics including the songs of Britney Spears, Boyz II Men, Christina Aguilera, TLC, R.E.M., Ace of Base, Natalie Imbruglia, The Verve, *NSYNC and many more, the brand new smash hit musical Cruel Intentions is based on ...
The House Party
Tuesday 25 - Saturday 29 March 2025
Directed by Headlong's Artistic Director Holly Race Roughan with movement from the formidable Frantic Assembly, Laura Lomas' The House Party spins August Strindberg's Miss Julie into intense, fizzing life for today's generation. A wild part...
The Best Movies in Cinemas & Streaming
Tuesday 25 March - Wednesday 31 December 2025
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 discounted tickets at Odeon, Vue, Cineworld and HOME too. We've also compiled...
HOME Film Pass
Tuesday 25 March - Wednesday 31 December 2025
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 ...
Scratch - Spoken Word Night
Tuesday 25 March - Tuesday 16 December 2025
Shakespeare North Playhouse's quarterly spoken word night is an inclusive, welcoming community space for both performers and audience alike. For Scratch we are looking for seasoned performers that are looking for opportunities to showcase t...
A Man of No Importance
Tuesday 25 - Sunday 30 March 2025
Altrincham Garrick's production of the Winner of the 2003 Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Musical. A Man Of No Importance is the second successful collaboration by the team of Terrence McNally, Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, all of ...
Discounted Cineworld Cinema Tickets
Tuesday 25 March 2025 - Friday 2 January 2026
Buy your Cineworld cinema tickets in Manchester at a reduced price: "Group 1 Tickets" from only £5.49 (saving up to £1.50 per ticket): Cineworld Bolton - [click here]--- "Group 2 Tickets" from only £8.99 (saving up to £4 per ticke...
Discounted Odeon Cinema Tickets
Tuesday 25 March - Thursday 31 July 2025
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: From £6.99 Monday to Thursday (saving up to £6 per ticket), or £8.99 any day of the week ...
Discounted Vue Cinema Tickets
Tuesday 25 March - Wednesday 9 July 2025
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 Tickets" from only £6.50: Vue Manchester Printworks - [click here]Vue Manchester Red Q...
moviEscape - SAWtopsy
Tuesday 25 March - Wednesday 30 April 2025
Inspired by the hit SAW movie franchise, SAWtopsy at moviESCAPE, Stockport's leading Escape Room offering, is a gory and ominous room with dim, atmospheric lighting, however it does not feature any jump scares - well none that are deliberat...
Romiley Operatic Society - Evita
Tuesday 25 - Saturday 29 March 2025
Awar-winning amateur theatre group Romiley Operatic Society present EVITA. From a life of poverty to spiritual leader of the nation, Eva Peron was loved, hated, derided and venerated. Dividing the Argentinian people with her patriotic spee...
Shakespeare North Playhouse - A Guided Tour
Tuesday 25 March - Thursday 31 July 2025
Want to know more about why Shakespeare North Playhouse was built? Why in Prescot? Why it won 'Theatre Building of the Year 2023' at The Stage Awards? Look no further! On this Guided Tour through Shakespeare North Playhouse, you will be led...
Coram Shakespeare Schools Theatre Festival
Tuesday 25 - Friday 28 March 2025
Coram Shakespeare Schools Foundation presents the world's largest youth drama festival, an evening of live theatre, featuring a series of unique abridged Shakespeare productions by local schools. ...
Floridita Dance - Free Bachata Taster Class
Tuesday 25 March 2025
Ever wanted to learn Bachata but never danced before? Now's your chance! Start with Floridita Dance's FREE taster class designed just for absolute beginners. No partner required. After that, you can keep growing your skills through their co...
The Lowry Dance & Drama Workshops
Tuesday 25 March - Thursday 31 July 2025
The Lowry offers a diverse and inclusive creating learning offer for Primary and Secondary Schools. With a variety of workshops linked to curriculum areas, mental health and wellbeing and project work. Held either at The Lowry or in scho...
Sonnets Aloud
Tuesday 25 March 2025
An evening filled with creativity, inspiration, and the sheer joy of words. Shakespeare North Playhouse North are bringing together the wordsmiths of Southport Learning Trust for a truly special celebration of language and creativity. Sixte...
Anora (18)
Tuesday 25 - Thursday 27 March 2025
★★★★★ Gorgeous, deranged - and one of the films of the year - the director of The Florida Project delivers an unpredictable rags to riches tale about a young stripper. ~ The i. ★★★★★ Sean Baker's story of a Russian olig...
Black Bag (15)
Tuesday 25 - Thursday 27 March 2025
★★★★ Steven Soderbergh is back to his very best with a knowing and outlandishly sexy spy thriller. ~ Time Out. --- From Director Steven Soderbergh, Black Bag is a gripping spy drama about legendary intelligence agents George Woodho...
Brief History of a Family (15)
Tuesday 25 - Thursday 27 March 2025
★★★★★ Lin Jianjie's remarkable debut feature keeps you guessing to the final scene - a thrilling exquisitely constructed drama directed and performed immaculately. ~ The Guardian. --- After the one-child policy ends in China, a mi...
Flow (U)
Tuesday 25 - Saturday 29 March 2025
★★★★★ Mysterious and magical, this Oscar-winning survival adventure is an animation worthy of Studio Ghibli. ~ Time Out --- Winner of the 2025 Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film, Flow is the latest film from the boundless imag...
I'm Still Here (15)
Tuesday 25 - Thursday 27 March 2025
★★★★ From The Motorcycle Diaries to On the Road, Walter Salles is a great celebrator of liberation, both personal and political. The two come together in stirring and poignant ways here. You can feel the shadow of a contemporary Br...
Mickey 17 (15)
Tuesday 25 - Thursday 27 March 2025
★★★★ The South Korean director Bong Joon-ho packs everything but the kitchen sink into his follow-up to the Oscar darling Parasite. ~ The Times.--- From the Academy Award-winning writer/director of "Parasite," Bong Joon Ho, comes hi...
Oh My Goodness (12A)
Tuesday 25 - Thursday 27 March 2025
★★ This silly French comedy pits one convent against another in a contest that could fund a trip to Rome but won't raise many laughs. ~ The Guardian. --- Fun and frothy, Laurent Tirard's hilariously absurd comedy, Juste Ciel!, will hav...
Santosh (15)
Tuesday 25 - Thursday 27 March 2025
★★★★ This terrifically tense cop movie digs into sexism and caste prejudice in India. ~ The Guardian. --- Written and Directed by Sandhya Suri. Ripped from her life of domesticity, Santosh, a young widow now desperate to support her...
Sister Midnight (15)
Tuesday 25 - Thursday 27 March 2025
★★★★ This Mumbai-set comic horror finds the terror in arranged marriage. ~ The Guardian. --- The BAFTA nominated film written and directed by Karan Kandhari. A newly arranged marriage. An oddball couple shoved together in a small Mu...
The Last Showgirl (15)
Tuesday 25 - Thursday 27 March 2025
★★★✭ Pamela Anderson has found the right role at the right time in Gia Coppola's film, a lament for an era as lost as the old west, which works its grand elegiac tone to ruthless death. ~ Irish Times. --- When the glittering Las Ve...
When Autumn Falls (12A)
Tuesday 25 - Thursday 27 March 2025
★★★ Francois Ozon's diverting mystery of tricky family dynamics mixes implied horror with sentimentality as it examines dangerous secrets and the disastrous ramifications of an (accidental?) poisoning. ~ The Guardian. --- In Francois...
Y2K (18)
Tuesday 25 - Thursday 27 March 2025
★★★ Former Saturday Night Live member Kyle Mooney's directorial debut goes for laughs and horror and ends up all over the place. ~ The Guardian. --- From writer/director Kyle Mooney and starring Rachel Zegler, Jaeden Martell, Julian D...
Pig Heart Boy
Wednesday 26 - Saturday 29 March 2025
Is it better to have a pig's heart that works ... than a human heart that doesn't? Cameron is thirteen, and all he wants is to be normal - have friends, go to school, and dive to the bottom of his local swimming pool. But he desperately nee...
Of Mice and Men
Wednesday 26 March - Saturday 12 April 2025
A gripping tale of hope and friendship. Lennie and George are unlikely best friends, two drifters bound together by a shared faith and the ambition to live the great American dream. Landing a job on a Californian ranch during the Great Depr...
National Theatre Connections Festival
Wednesday 26 - Sunday 30 March 2025
Connections is the National Theatre's annual, nationwide youth theatre festival. The programme is 30 years old and has a history of championing the talent of young people from across the UK. Every year, Connections commissions new plays for...
Catherine Bohart
Wednesday 26 March 2025
Catherine Bohart's back and older than ever with her new show "Again, With Feelings." And adulthood frankly isn't living up to her expectations. Join this "effortless" (Chortle) "star in the making" (Skinny) for a hilariously twisted second...
Clod Ensemble & RNCM Chamber Choir - Til All Our Tears Run Dry
Thursday 27 March 2025
The RNCM Chamber Choir and interdisciplinary company Clod Ensemble transform Manchester's historic Victoria Baths to welcome audiences into an immersive performance blending choral music and movement. Guided by Clod Ensemble's innovative ch...
National Theatre Live - Dr Strangelove (15)
Thursday 27 March - Saturday 12 April 2025
Seven-time BAFTA Award-winner Steve Coogan plays four roles in this pre-recorded cinema screening of the world premiere stage adaptation of Stanley Kubrick's comedy masterpiece Dr. Strangelove. When a rogue U.S General triggers a nuclear a...
An Evening With Paul Merson
Thursday 27 March 2025
An Evening with Paul Merson sees the football star discuss his illustrious career with Arsenal, Aston Villa, Middlesbrough, Portsmouth and England. He'll talk about games, dressing room/training ground stories, managers, fall outs and every...
It's the Economy Stupid
Thursday 27 - Friday 28 March 2025
Developed with and directed by internationally acclaimed Katharina Reinthaller, and produced by Worklight Theatre, It's the Economy, Stupid! is a bold new play from the Fringe First winning creators of Labels and Fanboy, touring the UK afte...
Imaginary Friends
Thursday 27 March 2025
Welcome to the warped mirror world of Imaginary Friends, the new solo show by award-winning writer-performer Daniel Bye, exploring everything from grief, morality and the end of the world, to authenticity in the contemporary media landscape...
Manford's Comedy Club
Thursday 27 March - Thursday 19 June 2025
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.. ...
Nemo
Thursday 27 March 2025
The winner of the 68th Eurovision Song Contest in 2024, Swiss singer/songwriter Nemo Mettler heads out across the continent to say hi to their hoards of new fans. The Biel/Bienne singer-rapper, who also plays the violin, piano and drums,...
RNCM Brass Band
Thursday 27 March 2025
Established during the 1990s by brass innovator Howard Snell, the RNCM Brass Band has always been a flagship ensemble of the institution. Geographically the RNCM is ideally placed in Manchester for brass band students and it boasts a teachi...
Barbara
Thursday 27 March 2025
An immersive theatrical experience that sensitively explores the subject of dementia through the lens of how we care for those we love and how we care for ourselves. Barbara and Bernard will transport you, their guests, to a bygone era ...
Justin Robertson - The Trial of Jonah
Thursday 27 March 2025
Join DJ, artist, author Justin Robertson in conversation with Dave Haslam at this event to celebrate the publication of Justin's new novel 'The Trial of Jonah' - the confessions of a time-travelling cultural vampire wherein the alternative ...
Northering - Spoken-Word Storytelling with Stephe Harrop
Thursday 27 March 2025
Stephe is a contemporary storyteller, creating and sharing intelligent, irreverent spoken word shows with audiences across the UK, and beyond. She's also fascinated by storytelling's potential to help promote a positive sense of belonging, ...
Sickbag - The Alternative Comedy Variety Show
Thursday 27 March 2025
This chaotic comedy variety show fizzes with the energy of a late-night after-party run by Cameron Jones, the kind of spectacle that spreads like a dirty rumour. It's the show you'd find packed to the rafters during a fringe festival at mid...
Strength Body And Mind
Thursday 27 March - Saturday 25 October 2025
The Strength Body and Mind Class is ideal for anyone looking to build physical strength while also calming the mind....
Have A Word - Murderers Row
Friday 28 - Saturday 29 March 2025
The Have A Word Podcast presents a night of stand-up comedy hosted by Adam Rowe & Dan Nightingale - two of the best comedians in the game. Guest comics include superstars and rising talents. The one thing they have in common: they all absol...
Amy & Carlos - Reborn
Friday 28 March 2025
Having made a stunning return to the Strictly dancefloor, Amy Dowden MBE - accompanied by fellow sensational Strictly Come Dancing star Carlos Gu - truly feels Reborn. Join Amy and Carlos as they share an intimate portrait of their lives an...
Candlelight - A Tribute to ABBA
Friday 28 March 2025
Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations never before used for this purpose in Manchester. Buy your tickets now to discover the music of ABBA at Manchester Cathedral under t...
