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
Alice Through The Looking Glass
Sunday 31 August 2025
Quantum Theatre bring their lively brand of comedy, music and magic to Lewis Carroll's timeless classic, Alice Through the Looking Glass....
Ricky Gervais
Monday 1 - Tuesday 2 September 2025
Ricky Gervais has today announced the highly-anticipated first set of official UK dates for his brand-new stand-up show 'Mortality'. Fresh from his most recent stand-up special 'Armageddon' winning a Golden Globe, hitting Number 1 on Netf...
Alcotraz Prison Cocktail Bar
Monday 1 September - 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...
Murder Mystery - Death in the Shadows
Monday 1 September - 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...
Derren Brown
Tuesday 2 - Saturday 13 September 2025
Prepare to be astonished! The multi award-winning master of mind control and psychological illusion, Derren Brown, returns with his brand new live show, ONLY HUMAN. The content of ONLY HUMAN is still under wraps, but we can guarantee you a ...
Here & Now - The Steps Musical
Tuesday 2 - Saturday 13 September 2025
Happiness is only a heartbeat away with HERE & NOW, the hilarious and heart-warming new musical based on the songs of the multi-million-selling pop phenomenon, Steps. Don't miss this sparkling celebration of love and friendship when it emba...
XS Malarkey with James Acaster
Tuesday 2 September 2025
Since 1997 XS Malarkey has been a Manchester institution, with compere Toby Hadoke bringing you the very best comedians at the lowest prices. A minimum of just ?3 for members and ?6 for normal people- we keep tickets as low as possible to k...
CANAL STREET LONELY HEARTS CLUB
Wednesday 3 - Sunday 14 September 2025
Filled with his trademark caustic wit, Jonathan Harvey's classic "gut-wrenching" (The Independent) 90s play, Rupert Street Lonely Hearts Club, has relocated from its original London location to modern day Manchester. Canal Street Lonely He...
Backyard Cinema - Romeo + Juliet
Thursday 4 - Sunday 7 September 2025
With over a decade of sold out shows, Backyard Cinema's critically acclaimed Romeo+Juliet continues to push the boundaries of what it means to watch a movie. A celebration of Baz Luhrmann's acclaimed 1996 cult classic, screened under the ...
Private Lives
Thursday 4 - Saturday 27 September 2025
LOVE AND CHAOS COLLIDE IN NOEL COWARD'S TIMELESS COMEDY Amanda and Elyot are charming, rich, utterly reckless - and divorced. When they meet unexpectedly on the first night of their honeymoons with new partners, in the balmy moonlight of th...
Psychic Sally
Thursday 4 September 2025
Sally Morgan, the nation's favourite Psychic and forerunner in the Psychic world is back on tour with her all new show. Wowing audiences young and old across the country for over a decade, Sally's show will have you on the edge of your seat...
National Theatre Live - Inter Alia (15)
Thursday 4 - Sunday 28 September 2025
Rosamund Pike (Saltburn) makes her National Theatre debut as Jessica in this searing examination of modern masculinity and motherhood. Written by Suzie Miller and directed by Justin Martin following their global phenomenon, Prima Facie. Jes...
First Thursday Comedy
Thursday 4 September - Thursday 6 November 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. ...
Japan Week 2025
Thursday 4 - Tuesday 9 September 2025
?Visit HOME for an evening of exciting traditional Japanese performances. Immerse yourself in the art and culture of Japan through stage performances. Expect a range of Japanese performing art like samurai, music, dance, and theatre.?Each e...
Fern Brady
Friday 5 September 2025
Scotland's queen of comedy Fern Brady (Taskmaster, Live At The Apollo, Roast Battle, Russell Howard, The Last Leg) is back on tour with a brand new show, I Gave You Milk to Drink. What happens when you get everything you want and it's not e...
Nuua Company - Meanwhile
Friday 5 September 2025
Experiences on the passage of time from Finnish contemporary circus and visual theatre group, Nuua Circus. Meanwhile is a world that mirrors today's culture and makes merry with all the pointless ways in which people can spend their time. T...
Altrincham Garrick Play Reading Club
Friday 5 September - 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 5 September - 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...
Sam Campbell
Saturday 6 September 2025
Basically, we keep him in a metal crate. Once everyone is settled and the house lights go down, we will let him loose on to the stage. It is our understanding that his comedy moments will DAZZLE you. His prefrontal cortex is larger than you...
I'm ADHD! No You're Not
Saturday 6 September 2025
Join BAFTA award-winning comedian Paul Whitehouse and his wife Dr. Mine Conkbayir MBE for their I'm ADHS! No You're Not podcast as they explore the experience of ADHD with their celebrity guest Johnny Vegas! Paul typifies the archetypal s...
Outreach Opera - Last Night of the Proms
Saturday 6 September 2025
Last Night at the Proms with Outreach Opera - a musical journey from opera to the West End and British anthems. Outreach Opera returnfor their Last Night of the Proms open-air concert in this beautiful setting. Pack your picnics and bring y...
Jekyll & Hyde
Saturday 6 September 2025
In a new and enthralling one-man stage adaptation of the classic tale of terror, acclaimed actor Jonathan Goodwin plays both Henry Jekyll and Edward Hyde in this production from Don't Go Into The Cellar! Victorian theatre company. Journey...
Mystery Ensemble - Tribute to Ludovico Einaudi
Saturday 6 September 2025
A tribute to 'The Master Of Mood' The programme of the evening includes the music of the world-famous Italian neoclassical composer Ludovico Einaudi performed by the extraordinary Mystery Ensemble. Ludovico Einaudi presented the final part ...
Boy Toy Bottomless Brunch
Saturday 6 September - 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...
Hindley Roses Ho-Down Fest
Saturday 6 September 2025
Expect a day of fun for the whole family, including: Fire Performer, Face Painting & Festival Hair, Outdoor Bar, Live Bands, Sweet Stall and much more...
Spirit of Little Hulton
Saturday 6 - Sunday 7 September 2025
Bringing a festival to Little Hulton, providing great entertainment, food, activities and atmosphere right on your doorstep in Peel Park, M38 9EG...
Fun for Little Ones - A Tribute to Ms Rachel
Sunday 7 September 2025
The UK's Premier Tribute to Global Phenomenon... 'Ms Rachel'! Bringing 'Ms Rachels' character to life in a FUN, interactive LIVE on stage performance with lots of audience participation for the little ones!With over 5 Billion Views and over...
Frankie Boyle
Sunday 7 September 2025
The Scottish comedian is back on tour. Buy a ticket, because by the time he arrives, the currency will be worthless and you and your neighbours part of a struggling militia that could probably use a few laughs. Well known for his pessimisti...
Counting Sheeps
Sunday 7 September 2025
A sleepy, sheepy show from Herd Theatre for babies and toddlers (and very tired grown ups). Two sheep think they know everything about sleep. They're experts in the field. But tonight they're wide awake. Snuggle up and join two sheep on a j...
A Chorus Line
Monday 8 - Saturday 20 September 2025
With sensational choreography, heart-wrenching personal stories and musical theatre's most unforgettable finale, A Chorus Line is a musical masterpiece that revolutionised Broadway, with creator Michael Bennett using real-life testimonies f...
IDEAL - Starring Johnny Vegas
Monday 8 - Saturday 13 September 2025
Critically acclaimed and a ratings hit, the multi-award winning BBC sit-com Ideal ran for 7 seasons and 53 episodes. Now Moz and friends are back. Celebrating the 20th anniversary of the first episode's broadcast, this new stage show is da...
Mothers Who Make
Monday 8 September - Thursday 4 December 2025
A peer support group and creative exchange session for mothers who are artists - professional and/or passionate - writers, painters, actors, dancers, filmmakers, photographers... every kind of maker welcome, and every kind of mother. The se...
Preview/ Happyend (12A)
Monday 8 September 2025
Set in a near-future Tokyo where the threat of a catastrophic earthquake pervades daily life, two rabble-rousing best friends are about to graduate high school. ?One night, they pull a prank on their principal, which leads to a surveillance...
No Rolls Barred
Tuesday 9 September 2025
No Rolls Barred is one of the UK's top tabletop channels on YouTube, a bunch of friends and comedians playing board games to show you just how fun board gaming can be. Famous for their regular series' House Rules, Board Game Club and Bl...
Darkfield - Arcade
Wednesday 10 - Sunday 21 September 2025
Darkfield presents ARCADE: But this isn't an ordinary arcade and these are not ordinary arcade machines. Every machine offers you the chance to enter the world of the game and choose your own unique journey. As you guide your avatar throu...
Darkfield - Séance
Wednesday 10 - Sunday 21 September 2025
SEANCE transforms the interior of a shipping container into a Victorian seance room. Over 20 minutes it explores the psychology of a group of people, and asks that they believe in what might be conjured up into the room with them. WE WILL N...
Saving Grace
Thursday 11 September 2025
Tik Tok's GKBarry (aka Grace Keeling) is taking her wildly popular podcast, Saving Grace, on the road once more! Fresh out of the I'm A Celeb! Jungle, Grace is ready to bring her signature chaos, comedy, and charisma to a stage near you...
Candlelight - A Tribute to Adele
Thursday 11 September 2025
Whether you're looking for a beautifully unique concert or a romantic candlelit evening, this music experience is for you. The performance will feature incredible tributes to Adele's greatest songs, played by an all-female, electric-acousti...
In The Beginning Woman Was The Sun
Thursday 11 - Saturday 13 September 2025
In The Beginning Woman Was The Sun is Houmi Miura's debut one-woman show. What happens when you grow up with heroes that look nothing like you? What happens when you find some that do? Join Houmi on her odyssey to find new heroes in this su...
In the Night Garden Live
Friday 12 - Saturday 13 September 2025
Igglepiggle, Upsy Daisy, Makka Pakka and friends are back in their fun-filled live show Igglepiggle's Busy Day! Join Igglepiggle as he looks for his friends in the Night Garden by following their funny sounds until he finds them all! You'll...
Elis James & John Robins & Dave Masterman
Friday 12 September 2025
Comedians Elis James and John Robins. together with Stockport's finest radio producer Dave Masterman, from BBC Sound's popular The Elis & John Show, are hitting the road! How does that feel?! I'll tell you how it feels... SIGNIFICANT! Yes! ...
