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
The History of Witchcraft & Feminism
Thursday 26 June 2025
The word 'witch' - what does it conjure for you? Do you immediately have an image of a hat, broomstick and cat, or an old, warty woman who entraps children in her gingerbread house? Or do you see a young, empowered healer who is targeted si...
Manchester Classical Festival
Friday 27 - Sunday 29 June 2025
Music will burst from The Bridgewater Hall from early till late as the orchestras and ensembles of Manchester and The Bridgewater Hall are thrilled to announce the launch of a unique collaboration. Manchester Classical will see the Halle...
Tim Minchin
Friday 27 June - Sunday 13 July 2025
Get ready for an evening packed with unforgettable songs and stories, as the Northampton-born, Australia-raised award-winning actor, comedian, author and music virtuoso looks back on how a Perth cabaret pianist ended up building one of the...
Liberation
Friday 27 June - Saturday 26 July 2025
How does a revolution begin and who keeps it going? Inspired by true events in Black British history, LIBERATION is a powerful new play from writer Ntombizodwa Nyoni and director Monique Touko tracing the private lives of activists who foug...
Barbara Nice
Friday 27 June 2025
Join Stockport housewife, cleaner to the stars, Take a Break reader and Britain's Got Talent star Barbara Nice for all the best bits of her 25 years of delighting live comedy audiences, as well as new stuff she wrote on the bus. A playful, ...
Murder Mystery Evening
Friday 27 June - Friday 19 December 2025
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 -...
OddSocks - A Midsummer Night's Dream
Friday 27 - Saturday 28 June 2025
Oddsocks are taking to the road again this summer with another high-energy, feel-good, family theatre show - Shakespeare's most magical comedy, A Midsummer Night's Dream! Four lovers run off to the Athenian forest where mysterious woodland ...
Manford's Comedy Club
Friday 27 June - Friday 28 November 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.. ...
Shakespeare and Love Tour
Friday 27 June - Wednesday 30 July 2025
An enchanting behind-the-scenes Theatre Tour exploring love as seen by The Bard, with insights into his romantic tales and the timeless allure of the Shakepeare North Playhouse's Cockpit Theatre. Step into a world of romance on the Shakespe...
RNCM Symphony Orchestra
Saturday 28 June 2025
The Royal Northern College of Music's Symphony Orchestra round off an exceptional year of music making with a celebratory concert at The Bridgewater Hall. Antony Hermus returns to conduct RNCM students in a performance of one of Mahler's...
Manford's Comedy Club
Saturday 28 June - Saturday 29 November 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.. ...
National Theatre Live - A Streetcar Named Desire (15)
Saturday 28 June 2025
Gillian Anderson, Vanessa Kirby, and Ben Foster lead the cast in Tennessee Williams' timeless masterpiece, returning to cinemas. As Blanche's fragile world crumbles, she turns to her sister Stella for solace - but her downward spiral brings...
ComedySportz
Saturday 28 June 2025 - Saturday 14 February 2026
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, ...
Mini Music Adventures
Saturday 28 June 2025
Come explorers! Get ready to travel across the world discovering tales and tunes exploring who we are, and where we come from. Each fresh adventure takes you to a different country, meeting new characters, hearing new music, and listening t...
ABBA Believe In Angels Brunch - ABBA Tribute
Saturday 28 June - Saturday 13 December 2025
Live your best dancing queen life, all afternoon, to your favourite ABBA and pop hits with this ABBA tribute show and delicious brunch. Get ready for the biggest ABBA-TASTIC bottomless brunch show the city has ever seen! Featuring a fu...
Laugh Out Proud - LGTB+ Comedy Special
Saturday 28 June 2025
Get ready to laugh until your glitter falls off as Laugh Out Proud returns to Manchester Comedy Club for another night of side-splitting queer comedy. Hosted by the fabulous Charli Angel, with the hilarious Ginger Hunter as the MC, this sh...
Life Drawing with Ambrosia
Saturday 28 June 2025
A life drawing class inspired by Ambrosias career in dance, hosted at the deaf institute....
Wigan @ The Edge - Saturday 5th April
Saturday 28 June 2025
Teach Rex uses life-like dinosaurs to perform their 1 hour show, teaching children about the anatomy and life of one the most mesmerising creatures...
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra - Quentin Blake's Box of Treasures
Sunday 29 June 2025
Quentin Blake's Box of Treasures bursts open with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra as they play live accompaniment to two wonderfully animated adventures. Imagine the glorious, multicoloured world of Quentin Blake spring to life as 80 amazi...
Three Little Vikings
Sunday 29 June 2025
Wrongsemble present a family show all about cooperation, bravery, and getting your voice heard! Three brave little Viking girls save the day in this bold and funny adventure story for little rebels, by the creator of the New York Times Best...
Off The Rails Comedy Club Saddleworth
Sunday 29 June - Sunday 27 July 2025
Held on the last Sunday of every month at The Royal George, Greenfield, a large country pub set in the stunning Saddleworth countryside, Off The Rails comedy night hosts some of the biggest names in comedy. Attracting eager comedy fans, fro...
Bury Comic Con - Pen! Paper! Pose!
Sunday 29 June 2025
Join Lee Crocker of Two Crows Arts Studio for a lively figure drawing event that is Comic Con inspired for all levels of experience (Ages 5+) with a great playlist and random prizes. Basic materials available and the bar will be open! ...
Matthew Bourne's The Midnight Bell
Tuesday 1 - Saturday 5 July 2025
Matthew Bourne's award-winning The Midnight Bell comes to Salford for the first time in 2025. In 1930s London ordinary people emerge from cheap boarding houses nightly to pour out their passions, hopes and dreams in the pubs and fog-bound s...
Alcotraz Prison Cocktail Bar
Tuesday 1 July - Monday 1 December 2025
This is the immersive cocktail bar behind bars, where the serving inmates are your bartenders, the guards are crooked and you become a part of the story. Once convicted, inmates are taken into an exciting world of mischief as they are fi...
The Bridgewater Hall Building Tour with BSL
Tuesday 1 July 2025
Take a look behind the scenes at The Bridgewater Hall, and learn more about Manchester's iconic international concert venue. The entertaining and knowledgeable tour guides will lead you through the building's history, its acoustics and arch...
Little Reads
Tuesday 1 July 2025
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...
Murder Mystery - Death in the Shadows
Tuesday 1 July - Monday 1 December 2025
Step into the shoes of the city's best detective in this phone app-based game. On a ghost tour gone wrong, famous travel blogger Bella Wanderlust is found dead. Was it her jealous boyfriend? The eccentric tour guide? Or someone lurking in t...
Living the Life of Riley
Wednesday 2 July 2025
Starring Vicky Entwistle, Living the Life of Riley is a heart-warming, heart-breaking and hilarious tale of a family, trying to negotiate their way through teenage tantrums, autism, and Grandma. Joanne Riley always knew there was something...
This is your tribute
Wednesday 2 - Sunday 6 July 2025
A brand new interactive cabaret show from the creators of 'An Evening Without Kate Bush' and 'Julie Madly Deeply'. 'Expect to laugh, sing and be merry!' (★★★★★ Quinntessential Review). Your sparkling host Sarah-Louise Young (Fasci...
Nanna Mo's Botox and Bum Lifts
Thursday 3 July 2025
From MaD Theatre Company, the producers of "Nanna's OnlyFans Film", "Nanna Mo's Botox and Bum Lifts" promises to be a hilarious look at how the baby boomer generation is trying to keep up with the modern world. After doing an online course ...
First Thursday Comedy
Thursday 3 July - Thursday 2 October 2025
Comedy in a Van present an hilarious evening of top quality comedy on the first Thursday of every month. Click for acts on specific dates. ...
The Bridgewater Hall Building Tour
Thursday 3 - Sunday 6 July 2025
Take a look behind the scenes at The Bridgewater Hall, and learn more about Manchester's iconic international concert venue. The entertaining and knowledgeable tour guides will lead you through the building's history, its acoustics and arch...
Lee Mead
Friday 4 July 2025
Lee Mead, star of Television and award winning West End leading man, is back for 2025! Lee shot to fame in 2007 on the BBC reality TV show 'Any Dream Will Do'. Beating 10,000 other hopefuls in the live finals to be crowned as Joseph in Andr...
Altrincham Garrick Play Reading Club
Friday 4 July - 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
Friday 4 July - Friday 5 December 2025
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...
FĀGOGO Exhibition
Friday 4 July - Sunday 10 August 2025
Home is a precarious notion for cultures in a constant state of motion and displacement. FALE S? / SACRED HOUSE asks FAFSWAG artists to create a site forceremonial transformation, imagining a future HOME for our celestial bodies, sacredobje...
Preview/ FĀGOGO Exhibition
Friday 4 July 2025
This preview offers the opportunity to see the exhibition on Fri 4 Jul from 18.00 ? 21.00. Home is a precarious notion for cultures in a constant state of motion and displacement. FALE S? / SACRED HOUSE asks FAFSWAG artists to create a site...
Hacienda Classical
Saturday 5 July 2025
Hacienda Classical makes its record-breaking eight Castlefield Bowl homecoming with Graeme Park, Manchester Camerata and special guests, including David Morales alongside Peter Hook on the DJ line-up. Performing orchestral renditions of muc...
Boy Toy Bottomless Brunch
Saturday 5 July - Saturday 1 November 2025
The Hottest Bottomless Brunch in Manchester is here... experience the full package! At Boy Toy Brunch they know how to have fun... The gorgeous Boy Toys - from male dancers and acrobats to waiters and performers - are here to please, and bo...
MISS CHIEF CABARET: Sandras Hen Do
Saturday 5 July 2025
Miss Chief is BACK with an amazing season of shows for the Manchester rodents, this 2025. Located at Feel Good Club, Hilton Street....
Lee Mead
Sunday 6 July 2025
Lee Mead, star of Television and award winning West End leading man, is back for 2025! Lee shot to fame in 2007 on the BBC reality TV show 'Any Dream Will Do'. Beating 10,000 other hopefuls in the live finals to be crowned as Joseph in Andr...
Jonathan Scott
Monday 7 July 2025
Epic orchestral masterpieces as you've never heard them before! Jonathan Scott uses all the resources of the Bridgewater Hall concert organ to create the full sounds and expression of a symphony orchestra using 5,500 pipes, two hands and tw...
Itch - Spoken Word Night
Tuesday 8 July 2025
Itch is Shakespeare North Playhouse's monthly spoken word night. It is an inclusive, welcoming community space for both performers and audience alike. If you are a performer and are looking for a performance opportunity get in touch. You mi...
Dom Joly
Wednesday 9 July 2025
Dom Joly is a multi-award-winning comedian and writer whose smash hit hidden camera series Trigger Happy TV re-defined the genre and was a primetime international smash, selling to over 80 countries around the world and had a spin-off ...
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