DRAMA PLAYS IN MANCHESTER
DRAMA PLAYS IN MANCHESTER
Most Popular Drama Plays in Manchester
Only Fools and Horses The Musical
Manchester Opera House
Mon 11 - Sat 23 Nov 2024
Tina - The Tina Turner Musical
Palace Theatre
Tue 25 Nov 2025 - Sat 3 Jan 2026
Spend Spend Spend
Royal Exchange Theatre
Sat 23 Nov 2024 - Sat 11 Jan 2025
Love It If We Beat Them
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Saturday 26 October 2024
What is power without principle? And what are principles without power? It's Spring 1996, Kevin Keegan's Newcastle United are riding high in the Premier League and Tony Blair's New Labour are gathering pace. Hope is in the air, and victory ...Stones in his Pockets
Octagon Theatre, Bolton
Saturday 26 October - Saturday 2 November 2024
Directed by Matthew McElhinney, son of the play's writer and original director, this new production brings a fresh take on the hysterically funny, thought-provoking and witty award-winning Irish comedy. Lights Camera Action! Hollywood is co...Nowhere
HOME, Manchester
Saturday 26 October 2024
In this intricate and playful solo show, inspired by his involvement in the Egyptian revolution of 2011, and his experience of the counter-revolution that followed, actor and activist Khalid Abdalla (United 93, The Kite Runner, The Crown) t...Dreams of the Dark
The Edge Theatre, Manchester
Saturday 26 October 2024
Haunted by disturbing dreams, a troubled woman seeks help to unravel the mysteries that lie within. A series of supernatural tales of ghosts, demons and curses unfolds... but are they merely dreams or dark memories of her past? These orig...A Pleasing Terror - Two Ghost Stories by MR James
The Lowry, Salford
Saturday 26 October 2024
Over a century after they were first published, the ghost stories of M R James retain their power to terrify and amuse. This gripping one man show retells two of the earliest and eeriest. In Canon Alberic's Scrap-book, a young Cambridge...Bullring Techno Makeout Jamz
Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester
Monday 28 - Wednesday 30 October 2024
Winner of the Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting 2022, Nathan Queeley-Dennis' debut play is a love letter to Birmingham, exploring Black masculinity through Beyonce lyrics, techno raves and the deeply intimate relationship between a man and hi...Run, Rebel
The Lowry, Salford
Tuesday 29 October - Saturday 2 November 2024
Written by Manjeet MannDirected by Tessa Walker 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 tra...Kin
HOME, Manchester
Tuesday 29 October - Saturday 2 November 2024
A new dark comedy by Christine Mackie from HER Productions. Sisters-in-law Kay and Steph meet for the first time in years at the funeral of Robert McGregor, the most important man in both their lives. Having never been close, expectations a...The Lowry Dance & Drama Workshops
The Lowry, Salford
Tuesday 29 October 2024 - 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...Rotten
Waterside, Manchester
Wednesday 30 October 2024
Hitchcock meets Lord of the Flies in this exciting new comedy-thriller by emerging writer Josie White. presented by Emmerson & Ward Productions. Three young, regional actresses: Saoirse, Coco and Sonia are struggling to survive in London. ...Nanna's OnlyFans Film
The Met, Bury
Thursday 31 October 2024
A New Black Comedy from MaD Theatre Company; a hilarious look at the Baby Boomer generation and their refusal to grow old gracefully. Dolly and her best friend Nellie are making a few extra quid by making films on their OnlyFans page, whic...Murder Mystery Evening
East Lancashire Railway, Bury
Friday 1 November - Friday 13 December 2024
Nothing works up an appetite like exercising those brain cells. So bring your best detective skills and join us for a night of mystery and murder on one of our stunning heritage steam trains. If you love Agatha Christie or Sherlock Holmes -...Altrincham Garrick Play Reading Club
Altrincham Garrick, Altrincham
Friday 1 November 2024 - Friday 5 December 2025
If you like theatre... no, if you love theatre, drama, comedy, musical theatre, play reading, poetry and much more and would relish the opportunity to meet new people, then the new 'Altrincham Garrick Play Reading Club' is for you. Here is ...Playreading Sessions
HOME, Manchester
Friday 1 November 2024
HOME's popular Playreading group meets on the first Friday of most months. The sessions, which are open to all, offer an opportunity to read and discuss plays that are linked to our theatre productions, or discover new plays from local tal...The Overlook Hotel - A Live Theatre and Dining Show
The Bowdon Rooms, Altrincham
Saturday 2 November 2024
Mr. Grady cordially invites you and your guests to The Overlook Hotel. Histoire Productions present a reimagined theatre performance and dining experience based upon Stephen King's terrifying tale 'The Shining'. Actors play out scenes based....png)
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Santi & Naz
Octagon Theatre, Bolton
Saturday 2 November 2024
Santi and Naz are bestest-best friends living in a village in pre-partition India. One Sikh, one Muslim; they have little understanding of how religion will divide them. As partition draws closer, the girls remain oblivious to the spreading...The Haunting of Blaine Manor
The Lowry, Salford
Tuesday 5 - Wednesday 6 November 2024
Renowned American parapsychologist Doctor Roy Earle, famous for discrediting hauntings and exposing fake mediums, is invited to attend a seance in what is said to be the most haunted building in England, a building with a horrific history, ...Follow the Signs
HOME, Manchester
Tuesday 5 - Saturday 9 November 2024
Fuse Theatre in association with Soho Theatre presents a fully BSL-led hip-hop gig theatre show. Follow the Signs is performed through BSL, rap, spoken English, movement, and creative captioning, to be shared and celebrated by Deaf and hea...Little Reads
Z-arts, Manchester
Tuesday 5 November - Tuesday 3 December 2024
Little Reads with Manchester Literature Festival. Join Ged for an interactive Storytelling session in our new Children's Library. 10am session - Pre-school/Family session 11am- Inclusive session (If you require a BSL interpreter please do l...OUTPATIENT
The Lowry, Salford
Wednesday 6 - Saturday 9 November 2024
Fresh from their Edinburgh run, Crowded Room (The Listening Room, EDITH) return with OUTPATIENT: an explosive autobiographical comedy about the fantasies of human minds and the fragility of human bodies. DEATH. It's coming for us all, so wh...Creepy Boys
Contact, Manchester
Thursday 7 November 2024
You're invited: The Creepy Boys are throwing their 13th birthday party. Combining 2000s sexy songs, satanic rituals and Willam Dafoe, it will have everything. Games. Gifts. Possibly Satan. Probably cake. This is one birthday party you'd be ...National Theatre Live - Prima Facie (15)
HOME, Manchester
Thursday 7 - Saturday 30 November 2024
Jodie Comer's (Killing Eve) Olivier and Tony Award-winning performance in Suzie Miller's gripping one-woman play returns to cinemas. Tessa is a young, brilliant barrister. She has worked her way up from working class origins to be at the to...The Brief Life and Mysterious Death of Boris III
The Lowry, Salford
Friday 8 - Saturday 9 November 2024
Award-winning Out Of The Forest Theatre's irreverent comedy - featuring live music inspired by Bulgarian and Jewish folk tunes - tells the incredible true story that the world forgot. The year is 1943 and Bulgaria has just told Hitler where...Hauntings
Waterside, Manchester
Sunday 10 November 2024
Hauntings is a spellbinding evening of three tales of the supernatural during which the award-winning actor, Gerard Logan, will take you to world of invisible, but terrifyingly present, spirits. The evening includes MR James' classic, 'Oh, ...Only Fools and Horses The Musical
Manchester Opera House, Manchester
Monday 11 - Saturday 23 November 2024
Stick a pony in your pocket - The Trotters are back and coming to a town near you! The smash hit show Only Fools and Horses The Musical - direct from a record-breaking four-year sold-out run-in London's West End - featuring Del Boy, Rodney,...Wonder Boy
The Lowry, Salford
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...Scratch Nights x Dance
The Lowry, Salford
Wednesday 13 November 2024
The Lowry's Artist Development team present Scratch Nights X Dance event, co-curated with Associate Artists Thick & Tight. Join us for an evening of new and experimental work from four dance artists and companies based in the Northwes...Flock
The Lowry, Salford
Thursday 14 - Friday 15 November 2024
A new play by multi award winning Lin Coghlan, presented by Playing ON. "Dartford. Hastings. Margate by the sea." Robbie wants nothing more than to be a grown up, and live with his sister Cel. Cel wants to go to university and find the kind...Piece of Work
The Edge Theatre, Manchester
Friday 15 - Saturday 16 November 2024
James has been touring his storytelling theatre shows for half his adult life. This tour was different though. Returning home after his first stint away, he received a letter that exploded his life, and the tour became a search: for the per...The Extraordinary Time-Travelling Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Waterside, Manchester
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...
Chosen
The Lowry, Salford
Tuesday 19 - Wednesday 20 November 2024
Imagine accidentally killing Harry Potter, Luke Skywalker, or Jesus and having to take their place. Chosen is a pop-rock comedy musical by Taiyo Yoshida & Dominic Varney about Sue, an IT Support Technician in her 60s, who wakes from a coma ...Plaza Murder Mystery Fundraiser
Stockport Plaza, Stockport
Thursday 21 - Friday 22 November 2024
The Plaza's very own 'Plaza Players' are back with another fundraising Murder Mystery event that will be.... deadly! Lights..... Cameras..... Murder! Mr Cyril G De Thrill is filming his latest and greatest Silver Screen spectacular at The P...Toxic
The Edge Theatre, Manchester
Thursday 21 November 2024
Following a sellout run at Greater Manchester Fringe Festival, Dan Lovatt's award-winning play Toxic makes its debut at the Octagon. Andy's husband has left him. Best friend James is a man's man, who uses gags to disguise his vulnerability....Spend Spend Spend
Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester
Saturday 23 November 2024 - Saturday 11 January 2025
Based on the life of Viv Nicholson and directed by Josh Seymour, this carnivalesque musical comedy is the big-hearted experience everyone needs this festive season. From rags-to-riches and back again, we follow working-class Yorkshire lass ...Biscuits
The Edge Theatre, Manchester
Friday 29 - Saturday 30 November 2024
Three old school friends, now in their seventies, meet every month for a catch up in the Cosy Cafe. Fiona is married to Ray, who bores her rigid, Geraldine is single and longs for love and romance, Margaret is married to Ted and would be ha...Nanna's OnlyFans Film
Octagon Theatre, Bolton
Saturday 30 November 2024
A New Black Comedy from MaD Theatre Company; a hilarious look at the Baby Boomer generation and their refusal to grow old gracefully. Dolly and her best friend Nellie are making a few extra quid by making films on their OnlyFans page, whic...The Wasp
The Edge Theatre, Manchester
Thursday 5 - Friday 6 December 2024
The Wasp is a heart-wrenching, dark, comedic thriller for anyone who has been through secondary school and has the scars to prove it.... They haven't seen each other in decades. One has everything. The other has nothing. And now a shocking ...Scrooge - A Grave Tale of Things Yet To Come
The Bowdon Rooms, Altrincham
Friday 6 December 2024
Become part of the story and help Marley's ghosts' restore Ebenezer's Christmas Spirit in this interactive dining experience from Histoire Productions. Jacob Marley is the evening's host and with the spirits of Past, Present and Future ...A Christmas Carol Performed by Gerald Charles Dickens
The Stoller Hall, Manchester
Friday 20 December 2024
The original Christmas Carol and the best! No other show in the country has a direct descendant of Charles Dickens playing the lead role. Gerald Charles Dickens is none other than the great great grandson of Charles Dickens. We all kn...An Inspector Calls
The Lowry, Salford
Tuesday 7 - Saturday 18 January 2025
J B Priestley's Classic Thriller AN INSPECTOR CALLS Stephen Daldry's multi award-winning National Theatre production of JB Priestley's classic thriller returns. Hailed as the theatrical event of its generation, winning more awards than any ...Sealskin
The Lowry, Salford
Wednesday 15 - Thursday 16 January 2025
Exploring ideas of belonging, otherness and home, Sealskin combines Liverpool physical theatre company Tmesis's trademark playful and highly skilled physicality, puppetry, storytelling, incredible projection design and live original music ...Animal Farm
Octagon Theatre, Bolton
Wednesday 22 January - Saturday 1 February 2025
A powerful re-telling of George Orwell's chilling and timeless classic. When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master and take over, they imagine it is the beginning of a life of freedom and equality for all. However ove...Buffy Revamped
The Lowry, Salford
Wednesday 29 January - Saturday 1 February 2025
Fresh from a smash-hit run at Edinburgh Fringe, this fast-paced new production from comedian Brendan Murphy - whose last show, Friend: The One with Gunther, recently won the award for Best Play in the World Wide Comedy Awards - brings y...10 Nights
The Lowry, Salford
Thursday 30 January - Saturday 1 February 2025
The Olivier Award nominated moving and funny play, by Shahid Iqbal Khan, is the story of one man's journey of self-discovery, and facing the consequences of your actions. One man's spiritual journey is about to begin... after he's posted o...
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Garrick Ensemble Production)
Altrincham Garrick, Altrincham
Monday 3 - Sunday 9 February 2025
For their annual production, The Garrick Ensemble, a company of 18-30 year old aspiring actors from Greater Manchester and Cheshire, perform Simon Stephens' adaptation of Mark Haddon's bestselling, award-winning novel, offering a richly the...The Shark is Broken
The Lowry, Salford
Tuesday 4 - Saturday 8 February 2025
Step aboard the Orca and into a "profound dive behind the scenes of the making of Jaws" (The Daily Telegraph). This Olivier Award-nominated new play is "hilariously brilliant and pure genius" raves the Sunday Express in its 5 Star review an...Rita, Sue & Bob Too!
St Helens Theatre Royal, St Helens
Tuesday 4 - Sunday 9 February 2025
St Helens' Regal Entertainments Ltd proudly presents the return of the record breaking Adults Only hilarious 1987 cult classic Rita, Sue & Bob Too!TV favourite Jake Quickenden heads the stellar cast as Bob in the production. Jake will be ...Floella Benjamin's Coming To England
The Lowry, Salford
Wednesday 5 - Monday 10 February 2025
An inspirational story of hope, determination and triumph Floella Benjamin's award-winning and iconic book Coming to England comes to life in this joyful stage adaptation with music, storytelling and song. Much loved by children and familie...Escaped Alone and What If If Only
Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester
Friday 7 February - Sunday 9 March 2025
Director Sarah Frankcom returns to the Exchange with two short plays by Caryl Churchill, brought together in one evening of theatre. Escaped Alone "I'm walking down the street and there's a door in the fence open and inside there are three...Shirley Valentine
