Most Popular Theatre in Manchester
Thu 26 Mar - Tue 28 Apr 2026
Wed 20 Aug - Sat 4 Oct 2025
Fri 24 Oct 2025 - Fri 13 Feb 2026
Mon 27 Jul - Sat 1 Aug 2026
Tue 25 Nov 2025 - Sat 3 Jan 2026
Daniel Grimwood - Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata
Saturday 27 December 2025
Be seduced by the 'Moonlight' Sonata and other highlights of the piano repertoire as acclaimed British pianist Daniel Grimwood plays Beethoven's luminous sonata. Whether you're looking for a romantic candlelit experience or simply want to e...
London Concertante - Viennese Christmas Spectacular
Saturday 27 - Sunday 28 December 2025
Tchaikovsky's elegant Nutcracker Suite leads on from Brahms' serious Hungarian Dance No.5, before Strauss II introduces us to the boundless exuberance of the Polish March in his Trisch-Trasch Polka. In the concert's penultimate work Tchaiko...
Horrible Histories - Horrible Christmas
Sunday 28 December 2025
Horrible Histories proudly presents the terrific tale of Christmas! When Christmas comes under threat from a jolly man dressed in red, it's up to one young boy to save the day - but can he save Christmas? From Victorian villains to Medieval...
London Concertante - Christmas at the Movies by Candlelight
Sunday 28 December 2025
Join London Concertante as they celebrate the festive season through the magical world of Christmas movies. Immerse yourself in snowy adventures, comical catastrophes, true love and the joy of family - relive all of your favourite cinematic...
Little Bear and the Christmas Lights
Sunday 28 December 2025 - Sunday 4 January 2026
Join Little Bear on her magical adventure as she searches for the perfect Christmas lights. Filled with sensory wonders, puppetry and music this is the perfect theatrical experience for your Snowbabies. From the team that brought you Little...
New Years Eve Family Party
Wednesday 31 December 2025
Enjoy our family friendly New Years Eve party with a *Kids games room*DJ * Buffet * Kids Mini Picnic Tea* Midnight Shot for adults* 12.30am...
OUTSIDE THE BOX COMEDY CLUB - 2ND JANUARY - STOCKPORT GARRICK
Friday 2 January 2026
SAM AVERY - Sam Avery is an award-winning stand-up, bestselling author, renowned speaker and viral blogger. In 2018 he embarked on his debut national tour, selling out venues across the UK and culminating in two nights at London's prestigio...
The Hallé - Viennese New Year
Saturday 3 January 2026
Welcome in the New Year with an afternoon of joyous music full of Viennese charm. Conductor Eduardo Strausser and the Halle are joined by enchanting soprano Alexandra Lowe for a whirl around the ballrooms of Vienna in this traditional New Y...
Varna International Ballet - Swan Lake
Tuesday 6 - Wednesday 7 January 2026
The greatest romantic ballet of all time is brought to life by Tchaikovsky's haunting and unforgettable score. From the impressive splendour of the Palace ballroom to the moon-lit lake where swans glide in perfect formation, this compelli...
Varna International Ballet - The Nutcracker
Wednesday 7 January 2026
This most famous of fantasy ballets for all the family begins as night falls on Christmas Eve. As snowflakes fall outside, the warm glow of the open fire sends flickering shadows across the boughs of the Christmas tree and all the present...
National Theatre Live - The Fifth Step (15)
Thursday 8 January 2026
Olivier Award-winner Jack Lowden (Slow Horses, Dunkirk) is joined by Emmy and BAFTA-winner Martin Freeman (The Hobbit, The Responder) in the critically acclaimed and subversively funny new play by David Ireland. After years in the 12-ste...
National Theatre Live - Mrs Warren's Profession (12A)
Friday 9 January 2026
Five-time Olivier Award winner Imelda Staunton (The Crown) joins forces with her real-life daughter Bessie Carter (Bridgerton) for the very first time, playing mother and daughter in Bernard Shaw's incendiary moral classic. Vivie W...
National Theatre Live - The Fifth Step (15)
Friday 9 - Saturday 10 January 2026
Olivier Award-winner Jack Lowden (Slow Horses, Dunkirk) is joined by Emmy and BAFTA-winner Martin Freeman (The Hobbit, The Responder) in the critically acclaimed and subversively funny new play by David Ireland. After years in the 12-ste...
Roy Chubby Brown
Saturday 10 January 2026
Roy Chubby Brown's rude, crude and rip-roaring brand of comedy is world renowned. Performing his own unique style of stand-up since the 190s, Chubby's belly-busting banter has never held back from sharing his outlandish views on news, wome...
To Kill A Mockingbird
Tuesday 13 - Saturday 24 January 2026
The powerful and enduring coming-of-age story of racial injustice and childhood innocence is set in 1930s Alabama where lawyer Atticus Finch tries to prove the innocence of Tom Robinson, a Black man wrongly accused of raping a white woman. ...
Six
Tuesday 13 - Saturday 17 January 2026
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...
Roy Chubby Brown
Friday 16 January 2026
Roy Chubby Brown's rude, crude and rip-roaring brand of comedy is world renowned. Performing his own unique style of stand-up since the 190s, Chubby's belly-busting banter has never held back from sharing his outlandish views on news, wome...
Justin Hawkins Rides Again
Saturday 17 January 2026
Justin Hawkins - founding member, singer, lead guitarist and frontman of The Darkness - arrived in the public's consciousness along with his band's debut album Permission To Land in 2003. 22 years and eight studio albums later, Justin bri...
OUTSIDE THE BOX COMEDY CLUB - 17TH JANUARY - STOCKPORT GARRICK
Saturday 17 January 2026
LIAM FARRELLY - Liam Farrelly is a 21-year-old up-and-coming Scottish comedian from Paisley, who started performing stand-up aged 17 whilst still in High School and who immediately went into comedy full-time after graduating.A meteoric rise...
Justin Hawkins Rides Again
Sunday 18 January 2026
Justin Hawkins - founding member, singer, lead guitarist and frontman of The Darkness - arrived in the public's consciousness along with his band's debut album Permission To Land in 2003. 22 years and eight studio albums later, Justin bri...
The Bodyguard - The Musical
Monday 19 - Saturday 31 January 2026
Starring international leading lady Sidonie Smith as Rachel Marron, Olivier Award nominee Adam Garcia as Frank Farmer, Sasha Monique as Nicki Marron and Coronation Street and Hollyoaks star Matt Milburn as Sy Spector. At certain performance...
Murder at Midnight
Monday 19 - Saturday 24 January 2026
A comedy thriller by Torben Betts starring national favourites Jason Durr (Heartbeat, Casualty) and Susie Blake (Victoria Wood's as Seen on TV, Coronation Street).. A killer night out! From the writer of Murder in the Dark comes a del...
Jason Manford
Wednesday 21 January 2026
Jason Manford is back with his brand-new live show, A Manford All Seasons. The Manchester comedian has been busy since his last smash-hit stand up show but fans of his Absolute Radio show will know this nationally acclaimed comedian hasn't...
A Celebration of Father Ted with Joe Rooney
Wednesday 21 - Thursday 22 January 2026
Celebrate one of the greatest sitcoms ever made, as renowned actor and stand-up comedian Joe Rooney presents a night of all things Father Ted! Joe featured as the rebellious Father Damo in the classic Father Ted episode The Old Grey Whis...
Beyond The Barricade
Friday 23 January 2026
Beyond the Barricade, the UK's longest running Musical Theatre Concert Tour, is celebrating its 25th Anniversary in 2024. Join the cast for two hours of the best of Broadway and the West End, featuring the songs that have made audiences ret...
The Night Sky Show
Sunday 25 January 2026
Comedy, astronomy and so much more. A show for anyone with a slight interest or more in the night sky. A night for those who want to laugh, learn and enjoy. The Night Sky Show will take you on an epic journey from our celestial back yard an...
Dita Von Teese
Monday 26 - Tuesday 27 January 2026
Dita Von Teese, the ever-dazzling International Queen of Burlesque, is returning to the UK with the most lavish touring burlesque show in history. With Nocturnelle Dita will be combining the glamour with theatrical magic and the high-art...
The End Times
Tuesday 27 January 2026
Written and directed by Liza Bec, The End Times is an apocalyptic coming of age tale featuring a magical musical blackboard and a theatrical soundscape, with one foot in the supernatural and one foot in science. This hour-long staged pe...
An Evening With Crissy Rock - From Bedlam To Benidorm
Wednesday 28 January 2026
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...
Private Lives
Wednesday 28 January - Sunday 8 February 2026
From the creative team behind 'Blithe Spirit' and 'The Taming of the Shrew' comes HER Productions next classical takeover: Noel Coward's PRIVATE LIVES! Embracing Coward's trademark banter and elegance, HER's production peels back the fro...
The Makings Of A Murderer - The Undercover Detective
Thursday 29 January 2026
Join Peter Bleksley, a founding member of Scotland Yard's undercover unit and former star of Channel 4's Hunted, as he lifts the lid on the most dangerous and hidden aspects of murder investigations. From the gritty realities of infilt...
Motionhouse - Hidden
Friday 30 January 2026
Jaw-dropping dance-circus from internationally renowned company Motionhouse, with its brand-new production Hidden. Hidden explores how, in an increasingly divided world, light can come out of darkness in times of crisis. At times narrat...
The Piccadilly Sinfonietta - Vivaldi's Four Seasons by Candlelight
Saturday 31 January - Saturday 11 July 2026
Few things are more magical than hearing the world's most breath-taking classical music being performed live by a brilliant orchestra in beautiful surroundings, by the flicker of candlelight. This experience comes to life when the city's...
Grace Petrie
Sunday 1 February 2026
Like protest songs? Neither does Grace Petrie - and she's been singing them for 15 politically disastrous years. No longer able to meet the deadened eyes or desperate hopes of leftwing audiences, she reckons there's no better time for a...
Mergaliyev Classical Ballet - The Nutcracker
Monday 2 February 2026
The festive charms of The Nutcracker will captivate audiences of all ages. When Clara is gifted a Nutcracker doll who magically comes to life, an enchanting adventure unfolds; a dramatic battle with the Mouse King ensues, and dancing snowfl...
Ezra Furman
Monday 2 February 2026
Described by Consequence Of Sound as, "a ball of energy, bouncing around genre borders with glee. There's the rebellion of '90s indie rock, a string of sunshine-y '80s pop, and the snarl of '70s punk," incendiary and inspiring Chicago tran...
Mergaliyev Classical Ballet - Swan Lake
Tuesday 3 February 2026
Swan Lake is arguably the world's most popular ballet, and a timeless tale. Prince Siegfried falls in love with Odette, Queen of the Swans, only to be tricked into betraying her by the wicked von Rothbart and his daughter Odile. The thrilli...
Hamza Yassin
Tuesday 3 February 2026
With his new show My Life Behind The Lens, star of Countryfile, Animal Park, Cbeebies, The One Show and, of course, the winner of Strictly Come Dancing 2022, Hamza Yassin takes to the stage to talk about his passion for wildlife, his fas...
Vincent Simone - Tango Passions
Tuesday 3 February 2026
Argentine Tango King and Strictly Come Dancing legend, Vincent Simone, returns to thestage with his brand new show... 'Tango Passions'. Accompanied by world-class Argentine Tango specialists, let the original Italian stalliontake you on a j...
Dara Ó Briain
Thursday 5 February 2026
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...
Peppa Pig's Big Family Show
Friday 6 - Sunday 8 February 2026
Peppa Pig and friends are back in their brand new live stage show! With a new arrival on the way the whole family are busy getting ready. With building and decorating work to be done it's an oinktastic makeover and Peppa Pig, Mummy Pig, Da...
Horrible Histories - The Concert
Friday 6 - Saturday 7 February 2026
Birmingham Stage Company and Lion Television present HORRIBLE HISTORIES - THE CONCERT Live (and dead) on stage!For the very first time, your favourite songs and characters from the BAFTA Award-winning CBBC TV series HORRIBLE HISTORIES will ...
Sue Perkins
Saturday 7 February 2026
You may know her as Bake-Off Sue, Taskmaster Sue, Just A Minute Sue, or the Sue that gives you travel envy - but stand-up Sue is full of surprises. In this brand-new show, she shares the unlikely happenings from a career in the spotlight. W...
Tales from Acorn Wood
Saturday 7 - Sunday 8 February 2026
Based on the favourite stories by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler's beloved Tales from Acorn Wood stories are brought to life on stage for the first time in an enchanting lift-the-flap experience. Poor ...
Forbidden Nights
Saturday 7 February 2026
Having made their debut on Britain's Got Talent in 2015 and played to packed houses since then, the Forbidden Nights boys are still in high demand at theatres all over the country with an even bigger and hotter tour for 2023. Yes ladies, "C...
National Theatre Live - Hamlet (12A)
Sunday 8 February 2026
Olivier Award-winner Hiran Abeysekera (Life of Pi) is Hamlet in this fearless, contemporary take on Shakespeare's famous tragedy. Trapped between duty and doubt, surrounded by power and privilege, young Prince Hamlet dares to ask the ultima...
Barnum
Tuesday 10 - Saturday 14 February 2026
Step right up and enter the dazzling world of P.T. Barnum, where imagination and ambition know no bounds. Hand in hand with wife Charity, Barnum's life and career twists and turns as he schemes and dreams his way to headier heights. West En...
Single White Female
Tuesday 10 - Saturday 14 February 2026
Based on the iconic 90's psychological thriller, the world premiere stage production of Single White Female is a bold and modern reimagining of the best-selling book and hit movie, that coined a phrase and led a generation to fear a stilett...
Stardew Valley - Symphony Of Seasons
Wednesday 11 - Thursday 12 February 2026
Experience the beloved music of Stardew Valley like never before with a live 35-piece orchestra performing all-new arrangements of the farming and life simulation role-playing game's most popular songs. Fans will journey from Pelican Tow...
Jack Rhodes
Wednesday 11 February 2026
From finishing runner-up on last year's Britain's Got Talent, Jack Rhodes is bringing his debut comedy magic show to Lowry! With a background in close-up magic and stand up comedy, Jack has amassed over 150 million views online with his 'c...
