Most Popular Theatre in Manchester
Thu 26 Mar - Tue 28 Apr 2026
Wed 20 Aug - Sat 4 Oct 2025
Tue 29 Jul 2025 - Sat 17 Jan 2026
Tue 25 Nov 2025 - Sat 3 Jan 2026
Dear England
Sunday 15 - Sunday 29 June 2025
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "A theatrical spectacle as uplifting as any England victory." (Telegraph). The National Theatre's Olivier-Award winning smash hit head out on a national tour, following a record-breaking run in the West End. The country tha...
Oti Mabuse
Sunday 15 June 2025
From the sambas of Brazilian Carnival to the Tangos of Argentina's Fiesta Nacional de la Vendimia, the dance scene at England's own Glastonbury Festival and the swing of the Jazz Fest in New Orleans, join queen of the dance floor Oti M...
The Lost Music of Auschwitz
Sunday 15 June 2025
In the depths of Auschwitz, amid unimaginable cruelty, music echoed through the camp. Orchestras made up of prisoners were forced to entertain Nazi officers and accompany the grim march of captives to and from their labour. Yet, as Leo Gey...
The Best Movies in Cinemas & Streaming
Sunday 15 June - 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...
Michael Jordan - Magic and Marvels
Sunday 15 June 2025
Step right up and prepare to be amazed by the one-man extravaganza, "Magic & Marvels," presented by the extraordinary and multi-skilled performer, Michael Jordan! Get ready to embark on a thrilling journey into the realm of wonder and encha...
Immersion Theatre - The Wind In The Willows
Sunday 15 June 2025
Pack your picnics for some outdoor theatre and join Ratty, Mole, Badger, and the fantastically irrepressible Toad as they embark on the adventure of a lifetime! Multi-award nominated Immersion Theatre proudly bring their trademark style and...
Scouts! The Musical
Sunday 15 June 2025
Welcome to the Scout Games! Scouts from around the world have gathered to compete but when an intruder threatens to sabotage the competition, it is up to Joe and Ayesha to use their newfound skills to save the day! Created in partnership wi...
Translations
Sunday 15 June 2025
Brian Friel's modern masterpiece examines the fractious relationship between people and nations through the lens of language and (mis)communication. It's August 1833. The pupils have gathered in a hedge-school in the townland of Baile B...
HOME Film Pass
Sunday 15 June 2025 - Wednesday 1 April 2026
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 ...
Shakespeare North Playhouse - A Guided Tour
Sunday 15 June - 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...
moviEscape - SAWtopsy
Sunday 15 June - Monday 28 July 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 delibe...
28 Weeks Later (18)
Sunday 15 - Wednesday 18 June 2025
Twenty-eight weeks after the rage virus has wiped out most human life in the UK, the island is finally declared safe by the military. As people move back and attempt to rebuild their lives, another strain of the virus is let loose and a ter...
Arts and Migration On Screen (12A) + Q&A
Sunday 15 June 2025
Join us for a captivating series of short films from experimental documentary to archive film exploring migration, belonging, and community through the eyes of talented filmmakers. ??The screening includes HOME?s newly commissioned document...
Cal (15)
Sunday 15 - Thursday 19 June 2025
Cal, a young Catholic living in 1970s Northern Ireland, finds himself drawn into Republican violence when he takes on the role of driver for an assassination mission against a member of the Royal Ulster Constabulary.?After beginning a fraug...
Echo Valley (15)
Sunday 15 - Thursday 19 June 2025
Kate is a mother struggling to make peace with her troubled daughter Claire - a situation that becomes even more perilous when Claire shows up on Kate?s doorstep, hysterical and covered in someone else?s blood. As Kate pieces together the s...
Lollipop (15)
Sunday 15 - Thursday 19 June 2025
Molly, a young woman released from prison battles to regain custody of her children. When she reconnects with her childhood friend Amina, a fellow single mother trying to make a life for her family, the two women join forces and take destin...
Supersonic (15)
Sunday 15 June 2025
An in-depth look at the life and music of Manchester-based rock band, Oasis. Featuring never before seen archive footage and original interviews, the film charts the rise of Oasis from their 1994 debut single Supersonic to their legendary K...
The Ballad of Wallis Island (12A)
Sunday 15 - Thursday 19 June 2025
The Ballad of Wallis Island follows Charles, an eccentric lottery winner who lives alone on a remote island and dreams of getting his favourite musicians, Mortimer-McGwyer back together. ?Charles? fantasy quickly turns into reality when the...
The Phoenician Scheme (15)
Sunday 15 - Thursday 19 June 2025
The story of a family and a family business.??Selected screenings of The Phoenician Scheme will go on sale on Mon 12 May....
The Piano Teacher (18)
Sunday 15 - Thursday 19 June 2025
Isabelle Huppert gives a performance of astounding emotional intensity as Erika Kohut, a repressed middle-aged woman who teaches piano at the Vienna Conservatory. When one of Erika?s students, the handsome and assured Walter Klemmer, attemp...
The Salt Path (12A)
Sunday 15 - Thursday 19 June 2025
The Salt Path is the profound true story of husband and wife, Raynor and Moth Winn?s 630-mile trek along the beautiful but rugged Cornish, Devon and Dorset coastline. After being forcibly removed from their home, they make the desperate dec...
Tornado (15)
Sunday 15 - Thursday 19 June 2025
Set in the rugged landscape of 1790?s Britain, Tornado finds herself caught in a perilous situation when she and her father?s travelling puppet show crosses paths with a ruthless criminal gang led by Sugarman and his ambitious son Little Su...
Come Fall in Love
Monday 16 - Saturday 21 June 2025
Change all your plans! Come Fall in Love, the hilarious, heart-winning new musical comedy from the co-writer of Legally Blonde and lyricist of Mean Girls - and based on a record-breaking Bollywood phenomenon - makes its UK premiere at the M...
Salford Dance Explosion 2025
Monday 16 - Thursday 19 June 2025
A four day festival of dance performances from local schools, colleges, higher educational settings, as well as theatre and dance academies from across the region, showcasing a full range of genres celebrating dance. This event has now b...
Floridita Dance - Free Salsa Taster Class
Monday 16 - Monday 30 June 2025
Ever wanted to learn Salsa but never danced before? Now's your chance! Start with Floridita Dance's FREE taster class designed just for absolute beginners. No partner is required. After that, you can keep growing your skills through their c...
The Lowry Dance & Drama Workshops
Monday 16 June - 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...
The Quatermass Xperiment + post-screening discussion (CTBA)
Monday 16 June 2025
Experience the sci-fi classic that put Hammer on the map: The Quatermass Xperiment returns to cinemas in a new 4K restoration for its 70th anniversary.A space expedition takes a nightmarish turn when an astronaut crash-lands on Earth ? only...
The Quatermass Xperiment + post-screening discussion (PG)
Monday 16 June 2025
Experience the sci-fi classic that put Hammer on the map: The Quatermass Xperiment returns to cinemas in a new 4K restoration for its 70th anniversary.A space expedition takes a nightmarish turn when an astronaut crash-lands on Earth ? only...
Pride & Prejudice
Tuesday 17 - Saturday 28 June 2025
Jane Austen's most iconic love story is brought dazzlingly to life on stage When it comes to the subject of marriage, headstrong Lizzy Bennet is determined to resist the mounting pressures and expectations from society. But can she resist l...
Plays For The People
Tuesday 17 June 2025
Join acclaimed theatre maker Andy Smith and award-winning applied arts practitioner Lynsey O'Sullivan for a day of play, discussion, and action. This day will see three performances of plays from the ongoing project Plays for the People: ...
Pendleton School of Theatre - Accidental Death of an Anarchist
Tuesday 17 - Wednesday 18 June 2025
Pendleton School of Theatre presents Tom Basden's razor-sharp adaptation of Dario Fo and Franca Rame's explosive political farce. Pendleton School of Theatre Acting Company present Jim Cartwright's gritty and poignant play. Get ready for a...
ShakeItUp - The Improvised Shakespeare Show
Tuesday 17 June 2025
ShakeItUp Theatre launched The Improvised Shakespeare Show in 2018. Since then they have performed well over 100 totally improvised Shakespeare plays to audiences across the UK, from the Minack Theatre in Cornwall, to London's The Other Pal...
Adventures in Wonderland
Tuesday 17 June 2025 - Wednesday 22 July 2026
Fall down the rabbit hole and have your very own magical adventure with Adventures in Wonderland at Z-arts! Created by Z-arts in partnership with Macmillan Children's Books, step into Alice's shoes and have your very own magical Adventure i...
Floridita Dance - Free Bachata Taster Class
Tuesday 17 - Tuesday 24 June 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...
Drawing Course
Tuesday 17 - Tuesday 24 June 2025
Learn and master techniques for capturing facial features, expressions, perspectives, and the interplay of light and tone. Unleash your creativity and elevate your drawing skills in our engaging, popular drawing course! Designed for all le...
To Each Their Own Cinema Presents: Persona
Tuesday 17 June 2025
To cap off our first season of screenings, we present the enigmatic masterpiece that is Ingmar Bergman's 'Persona' (1966) on Tuesday 17th of June....
Twisted! The Musical
Wednesday 18 - Saturday 21 June 2025
Set in the heart of Victorian London, "Twisted! The Musical" follows Oliver Brownlow, now a young man, as he becomes entangled with Jane, a working-class flower girl facing adversity. This compelling two-hour production features live music,...
Unseemly Women - Macbeth
Wednesday 18 - Sunday 29 June 2025
Manchester-based feminist theatre collective Unseemly Women go red and bring you the power of Shakespeare's Macbeth, adapted by Hannah Ellis Ryan for HER Productions. Something wicked this way comes... Scotland is at war with Norway. Whil...
An Evening With Crissy Rock - From Bedlam To Benidorm
Wednesday 18 June 2025
Best known for appearing on TV shows such as Benidorm, I'm A Celebrity and Celebrity Masterchef, Crissy Rock is better known to her fans as one of the most outstanding and outrageous stand up comedians of her generation. To celebrate over 3...
Shellshocked
Wednesday 18 June 2025
From the creative team behind the five-star, multi-award-winning Jesus, Jane, Mother and Me and LASH, comes a thrilling new drama. The horrors of World War Two have broken young Wesley, but could the madness he encounters beyond it save or ...
James Allen - Thanks For The Memories Podcast
Wednesday 18 June 2025
Thanks for the Memories Podcast with James Allen revisits cringey teen Facebook posts with guests & audience memories. Laugh, cry & cringe your way forward. James Allen takes a deep dive into his past Facebook statuses as a teenager to laug...
Art Stars (Reception - Year 2)
Wednesday 18 June - Friday 18 July 2025
Art Stars is a great activity for young people who enjoy making stuff!A great introduction to art, you?ll learn the basics of art in a fun and relaxed environment. You can try lots of different art techniques including drawing, painting, ce...
Yoga Goats Improv
Wednesday 18 June 2025
An improvised comedy show. We'll yes, we'll and, who knows, we might even maybe...
Kai Widdrington - Evolution
Thursday 19 June 2025
StrictlyTheatre Co. and Rock You Productions present - StrictlyCome Dancing star Kai Widdrington is set to dazzle audiences across theUK & Ireland with his highly anticipated 2025 dance tour. Following histriumphant performances on the hit ...
RNCM Opera Scenes
Thursday 19 June 2025
FREE EVENT. RNCM vocal and conducting students present excerpts from some of opera's greatest moments in this free series of staged scenes. A perfect way to feed your curiosity! Click on tickets link for the perfromers and excerpts presente...
Manford's Comedy Club
Thursday 19 June - Thursday 2 October 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.. ...
Lowry Youth Dance Project
Thursday 19 June - Thursday 10 July 2025
Calling young people aged 9-16 who love to move! Take part in this inspiring dance project to develop your dance ability and unleash your artistic creativity. Experience how dancers train at Lowry. All genders and abilities welcome! In ...
28 Years Later (15)
Thursday 19 - Thursday 26 June 2025
Director Danny Boyle and writer Alex Garland reunite for a terrifying new story set in the world created by 28 Days Later. It?s been almost three decades since the rage virus escaped a biological weapons laboratory, and now, still in a ruth...
Strength Body And Mind
Thursday 19 June - Saturday 25 October 2025
The Strength Body and Mind Class is ideal for anyone looking to build physical strength while also calming the mind....
Dara Ó Briain
Friday 20 June 2025
Dara O Briain is one of the UK & Ireland's favourite stand-up comedians and television presenters. He is best known for hosting Mock The Week, Robot Wars, Three Men in a Boat, Dara and Ed's Great Big Adventure, Stargazing Live, Dara O Briai...
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