Most Popular Theatre in Manchester
Thu 26 Mar - Tue 28 Apr 2026
Wed 20 Aug - Sat 4 Oct 2025
Wed 30 Apr 2025 - Fri 13 Feb 2026
Djo (Joe Keery)
Tuesday 3 June 2025
Djo - the neo-psychedelia musical project of actor Joe Keery, known for his work in blockbuster projects as Stranger Things and Fargo - is back on tour. With lush guitars and instrumentation reminiscent of late 60's and 70's pop, Keery's ...
Call of Cthulhu
Tuesday 3 June 2025
Ancient mysteries, forbidden lore... secrets humanity was not meant to know! Join Keeper of Arcane Lore Mark Meer and an all-star cast of Investigators as they confront the terrors of the Cthulhu Mythos by H. P. Lovecraft, in Call of Cthu...
Djo (Joe Keery)
Tuesday 3 June 2025
Djo - the neo-psychedelia musical project of actor Joe Keery, known for his work in blockbuster projects as Stranger Things and Fargo - is back on tour. With lush guitars and instrumentation reminiscent of late 60's and 70's pop, Keery's ...
Becky Namgauds - The Heat
Tuesday 3 June 2025
The Hear, a surreal dance theatre piece by Becky Namgauds, begins in the realm of the domestic space. As the landscape unravels, cracks appear, and through them seep the dark psyche, simmering desires, and moments of biting absurdity transf...
The Gentleman of Shalott
Tuesday 3 - Wednesday 4 June 2025
The Gentleman of Shalott is a queer adaptation of Tennyson's poem The Lady of Shalott, influenced by Theatre of the Absurd, exploring isolation; social media-induced anxiety; neurodiversity and our unwillingness to confront the climate cris...
Mike Peters (The Alarm)
Tuesday 3 June 2025
It's been a remarkable career. Mike Peters, frontman of The Alarm, created one of Britain's best-loved rock bands at the turn of the 1980s. He filled arenas, enjoyed hits with Sixty Eight Guns Spirit Of '76, and Absolute Reality, and opened...
From Venice with Love - Dishing Out Memories
Tuesday 3 June 2025
A special evening showcasing creative responses from five Greater Manchester artists who spent a month at the 2024 Venice Biennale, supported by the British Council, Lowry, Venture Arts, Manchester Metropolitan University, and Touchstones R...
Femmes & Thems
Tuesday 3 June 2025
A showcase of the best female and non-binary comedy talent from across the UK in a night of upbeat, shocking, silly, and (most importantly) hilarious stand-up comedy. From TV and touring comics to brand new acts, Femmes and Thems is the bes...
Robin Ince
Wednesday 4 June 2025
A journey through the minds that populate the planet and may populate the universe beyond. An hour of joy and curiosity with the presenter of The multi award winning Infinite Monkey Cage. Expect stories of chimpanzees and astronauts, of sta...
The Play's The Thing: A One Person Hamlet
Wednesday 4 June 2025
'Mark Lockyer has absolute commitment and mastery of this timeless classic' Rufus Norris. Artistic Director, Royal National Theatre With all the characters played by one actor, stunningly simple staging, and all the language we love, we ...
Cock
Wednesday 4 - Saturday 7 June 2025
Following its Northern premiere in 2024, COCK by Mike Bartlett and Directed by Rupert Hill returns as part of a large 2025 tour. The play centres on John, a man who finds himself torn between his long-term boyfriend and a woman he unexpe...
Jacob Alon
Wednesday 4 June 2025
As seen on Later... with Jools Holland, Jacob Alon is a Dunfermline indie folk singer-songwriter with a profound gift for storytelling. Both intimate and devastatingly introspective, their music is touched by a rare timelessness. Drawing ...
The French Dispatch (15)
Wednesday 4 June 2025
Wes Anderson?s delightful, star-studded homage to journalism and literary magazines is a feast for the eyes and a whip-smart comic delight. The French Dispatch, a high-brow magazine based in the imagined Gallic town of Blas?-sur-Ennui, has ...
Pride & Prejudice
Thursday 5 - 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...
Ockham's Razor - Tess
Thursday 5 - Saturday 7 June 2025
A groundbreaking adaptation of Thomas Hardy's classic novel Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Alex Harvey and Charlotte Mooney of Ockham's Razor, a contemporary circus company who combine circus and visual theatre to make work that is arresting...
Unseemly Women - Macbeth
Thursday 5 - Saturday 7 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...
RNCM Opera Scenes
Thursday 5 - 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...
Danny Bowes (Thunder) - Maximum Chat
Thursday 5 June 2025
Thunder frontman and Planet Rock radio presenter Danny Bowes presents his highly anticipated one-man show, Maximum Chat. The tour marks a significant return to the stage for Bowes, following his recovery from a life-threatening accident in...
Sorry (I Broke Your Arm and Legs)
Thursday 5 June 2025
A riotous debut PowerPoint presentation from James Akka (Thanks A Lot, Milton Jones!), combining all the thrills of World Book Day with the hilarity of the Maths Olympiad. Sam's obviously the correct choice for Head Boy. He's got the Powe...
National Theatre Live - A Streetcar Named Desire (15)
Thursday 5 - Sunday 8 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...
Blindboy
Friday 6 June 2025
The Blindboy Podcast Live returns on its biggest tour yet, with Irish satirist Blindboy Boatclub, Limerick's own polymath, bestselling author, screenwriter, songwriter, musician, producer and academic. Described as a "cultural phenomenon" b...
Upswing - Showdown
Friday 6 - Saturday 7 June 2025
Six extraordinary acrobats but only one winner. Who will be the "new face of circus"? Part talent show, part beauty pageant with a touch of the Hunger Games, Showdown, from multi-award-winning UK-based contemporary circus company Upswing, c...
John Kearns
Friday 6 June 2025
The Varnishing Days is the heart-stopping, glasses-dropping, hard-rocking, wig-shaking, levothyroxine-taking, knee-knocking, boot-licking, justifying, teeth rattling, digressing new show from stand up comedian to the stars John Kearns. G...
Josh Jones
Friday 6 June 2025
After his 2023/24 sell-out smash tour Gobsmacked, this marvellous Manc is back with his best show yet, I Haven't Won the Lottery so here's another show. A TV favourite, and now an aspiring doctor's wife, Josh Jones is now knee deep into his...
Terminal 2
Friday 6 - Saturday 7 June 2025
With their plane delayed due to a power cut, George and Lynda Sumner debate the meaning of life, the common bluebottle, sex tapes and the pros and cons of WH Smith... but it soon becomes clear that Lynda's journey is one way and that George...
Yeh Dosti - Celebrating 50 Years Of Sholay
Friday 6 June 2025
Yeh Dosti: Celebrating 50 Years Of Sholay will feature mesmerising dance performances choreographed to Sholay's legendary soundtrack. Experience the unforgettable dances and songs that have defined Bollywood cinema! A talented cast of dan...
Local
Friday 6 June 2025
A show about home, belonging or not, and letting go. 'Local' is a solo show where storyteller Liz Richardson revisits her childhood memories and home in West Cumbria in an attempt to understand whether she still belongs there, or ever did. ...
Altrincham Garrick Play Reading Club
Friday 6 June - 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 ...
Sing With The Hallé - Be in the Audience
Saturday 7 June 2025
Hear the Halle Choir and a huge chorus of singers for this very special performance of Mozart's Requiem. Following a full day of rehearsals with the Halle's exceptional Choral Director, Matthew Hamilton, the massed singers, alongside the Ha...
Sing With The Hallé - Be in the Choir
Saturday 7 June 2025
Experience the thrill of singing alongside one of the world's most renowned choirs and orchestras in a full day of inspiring choral music. Everyone is welcome and no previous experience is required! You will have the joy of singing one o...
Ballet of Lights - Peter Pan in a Sparkling Show
Saturday 7 June 2025
Experience Peter Pan reimagined with Ballet of Lights. Six local dancers in illuminated costumes bring this classic story to life through dance, light, and colour. Join Peter Pan, Tinker Bell, and the Darling children on a magical journey t...
Jonny Pelham
Saturday 7 June 2025
Jonny Pelham is one of the most exciting stand-up comedians in the UK. He's appeared on shows such as; Live at the Apollo, Mock The Week, Alan Davies As Yet Untitled, Russell Howard's Stand-up Central, Live from the BBC and Bobby and Harrie...
The Royal Tenenbaums (15)
Saturday 7 June 2025
A cinema screening of Wes Anderson's 2001 classic with its all-star cast. Royal Tenenbaum and his wife Etheline had three children, Chas, Richie and Margot, and then they separated. Chas started buying real estate in his early teens and see...
Rory Bremner
Sunday 8 June 2025
What happens when Britain's sharpest political impressionist steps out from behind the masks? For four decades, Rory Bremner has been the voice of our times - quite literally. Now, in this intimate new show, the master mimic & satirist comb...
Marvel Studios' Infinity Saga Concert Experience
Sunday 8 June 2025
Join the Novello Orchestra for a new Marvel Studios film concert that takes fans on an epic cinematic journey covering twenty-three films in one momentous concert experience. Embark on a thrilling and unprecedented live concert journey th...
Mike Peters (The Alarm)
Sunday 8 June 2025
It's been a remarkable career. Mike Peters, frontman of The Alarm, created one of Britain's best-loved rock bands at the turn of the 1980s. He filled arenas, enjoyed hits with Sixty Eight Guns Spirit Of '76, and Absolute Reality, and opened...
Thick & Tight - Natural Behaviour
Tuesday 10 - Wednesday 11 June 2025
After last year's award-winning tour of Tits & Teeth, Thick & Tight present a brand new variety show Natural Behaviour, a collection of performed portraits of human and non-human life forms. Outrageous, beautiful, hilarious and profound, Na...
Scouts! The Musical
Tuesday 10 - 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
Tuesday 10 - 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...
Boaty Theatre Company - Much Ado About Nothing
Wednesday 11 - Thursday 12 June 2025
It's Much Ado About Nothing with something urgent to say-and no intention of asking permission. Featuring a cast of emerging LGBTQ+ and Northern talent, this timely production from Ellesmere Port's Boaty Theatre Company reclaims space, voi...
Rushmore (15)
Wednesday 11 June 2025
Wes Anderson's all-star film from 1998 follows Max, a gifted and rebellious student at the elite Rushmore Academy. Editor of the school newspaper, captain of innumerable clubs and societies, Max is also one of the worst students in the scho...
The Adult Pantomime - Dick Whittington
Thursday 12 June 2025
The Adult Pantomime is back for its 7th year with the pantomime paved with gold... Dick Whittington - Adults Only! Dick is trying to seek fame and fortune in the city of London with his faithful feline friend Tommy. While there, they manage...
RNCM Brass Band
Thursday 12 June 2025
Established during the 1990s by brass innovator Howard Snell, the RNCM Brass Band has always been a flagship ensemble of the institution. Geographically the RNCM is ideally placed in Manchester for brass band students and it boasts a teachi...
Comrade Tambo's London Recruits (12A) + Q&A
Thursday 12 June 2025
By the late 1960s, the Apartheid regime in South Africa had reached brutal new heights. Nelson Mandela and other freedom fighters had been imprisoned, killed or forced into exile. The African National Congress (ANC) was outlawed and broken,...
Lil.Miss.Lady
Friday 13 - Saturday 14 June 2025
Part rave, part drama - LIL. MISS. LADY (Lady Lykez) from HighRise Entertainment explores the history of Grime through the eyes of a vigorous female MC. From the early stages of Jungle, ravers will take an immersive journey through the soun...
A Concord of Sweet Sounds
Friday 13 June 2025
An evening of magnificent music inspired by the words of Shakespeare. 'Atticus Arts' has put together a wonderful show of Classical Music and theatre from renowned composers including Beach, Dring, Gounod, Purcell and Quilter exploring stor...
Larry Dean
Friday 13 June 2025
Thrice Edinburgh Comedy Award-nominee and two-time star of Live At The Apollo, returns with a hilarious brand new show, Dodger, about identity, heroes and the benefits of being a dafty. Larry has been spending a lot of time with his gran...
