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
Radiohead X Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (CTBA)
Thursday 2 October 2025
The original vampire movie gets given fresh new blood courtesy of a haunting ? and curiously effective ? pairing with two iconic Radiohead albums. Thomas Hutter, an ambitious young businessman, travels deep into Transylvania at the request ...
'Allo 'Allo Comedy Train
Friday 3 October 2025
'Allo! 'Allo! This is nighthawk calling! Listen very carefully, we shall say this only once! Renѐ was hoping for a quiet night in his humble little cafe in Nouvion, but things aren't quite going according to plan. The Resistance wants to u...
The HandleBards - The Tempest
Friday 3 - Saturday 25 October 2025
This production of The Tempest is the first collaboration between Shakespeare North Playhouse and internationally renowned theatre company ran by cycling actors, The HandleBards, who carry all the necessary set, props & costume on the b...
VENUS 2.0
Friday 3 - Saturday 4 October 2025
Follow the scandalous true story of a Suffragette-turned-Fascist in this time bending cabaret. VENUS 2.0 is a high-octane dance theatre experience exploring the chaos and turmoil of the early 20th century. Six chameleonic dancers take you o...
Manford's Comedy Club
Friday 3 October 2025 - Friday 3 July 2026
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.. ...
An Evening with Ricky Tomlinson
Friday 3 October 2025
In conversation about his life and career, with BBC Radio Merseyside presenter and established singer and entertainer Asa Murphy, Eric "Ricky" Tomlinson is an English actor (and former plasterer) best known for his television roles as Bobby...
BTW High Octane
Friday 3 October 2025
Btw goes full throttle as we return to Ellesmere Road Recreational Club for another night of awesome family friendly professional wrestling...
John Bishop
Saturday 4 - Sunday 5 October 2025
Comedian, TV presenter and actor John Bishop took a less travelled route into show business. Born and raised in Liverpool, the younger Bishop was a semi-professional footballer for Southport and Hyde United, following in the footsteps of ol...
Hannes Langolf - How About Now
Saturday 4 October 2025
Inspired by Max Frisch's timely play 'The Arsonists' and directed and choreographed by Olivier Award nominated choreographer Hannes Langolf (in collaboration with Ermira Goro and Ed Mitchell), HOW ABOUT NOW is a fast-paced and thought...
New Dawn Fades: A Play About Joy Division and Manchester
Saturday 4 - Friday 10 October 2025
The brand-new stage production of New Dawn Fades: A Play About Joy Division & Manchester celebrates its 10th anniversary. The new touring production is written by Brian Gorman, produced & directed by Giles D Bastow and Sean Mason fo...
Chisato Minamimura - Mark of A Woman
Saturday 4 October 2025
Mark of A Woman is a performance project by deaf performance artist Chisato Minamimura, celebrating and exploring personal histories and authentic accounts of the undertold relationships between women and tattooing cultures. Using Visual Ve...
Reg Meuross - Stolen From God
Sunday 5 October 2025
Stolen from God is the product of four years of research by English folk musician Reg Meuross who tackles the history of England's involvement in the transatlantic slave trade during the 17th and 18th centuries. He unearths both incredible ...
Grand Pro Wrestling: Supercharged
Sunday 5 October 2025
Family friendly WWE style pro wrestling by the best in the U.K. There is no better way to spend your Sunday....
An Evening with Freddie Flintoff
Monday 6 October 2025
Join legendary cricketing all-rounder and TV presenter Freddie Flintoff as he shares the defining moments that shaped his extraordinary life and career - in his own words. From the first time he picked up a cricket bat in Lancashire to fac...
An Evening with Erinma Bell
Monday 6 October 2025
Join Erinma Bell as she converses with other inspirational Black Women on what it is like to be a black female leader today. In 2003 Erinma became a co-founder and CEO of her own formidable charity known as CARISMA - Community Alliance for ...
In Conversation with Stewart Copeland (The Police)
Monday 6 October 2025
A-List rock star Stewart Copeland enjoyed remarkable success with The Police, and is one of the greatest drummers of all-time, a multi-Grammy winner, and a Rock and Roll Hall of Famer. Having played drums for Curved Air from 1975 to 1976, h...
Hundreds of Beavers - Revenge of the Beavers Tour (12A) + Q&A
Monday 6 October 2025
The cult movie phenomenon returns ? experience a story of love, laughter and a LOT of beavers. In this 19th century comedy epic, a drunken applejack salesman must go from zero to hero and become North America's greatest fur trapper by defea...
The World of Hans Zimmer - A New Dimension
Tuesday 7 October 2025 - Wednesday 7 October 2026
The World of Hans Zimmer: A New DimensionPowerful. Beautiful. Dramatic. Breathtaking. Strong. Touching. This is the music of two-time Academy Award® winner Hans Zimmer. In 2024, his successful show The World of Hans Zimmer will receive a n...
Lulu
Tuesday 7 October 2025
Grammy-nominated singer, pop sensation, gifted stage and film actress, Lulu has been entertaining the nation for decades. Now, at 76, with the release of her highly anticipated memoir, she's finally telling her whole, unfiltered story f...
The Shawshank Redemption
Tuesday 7 - Saturday 11 October 2025
Despite protests of his innocence, Andy Dufresne is handed a double life sentence for the brutal murders of his wife and her lover. Incarcerated in the notorious Shawshank facility, he quickly learns that no one can survive alone. Andy stri...
Reckless Sleepers - Binary Opposition
Tuesday 7 - Wednesday 8 October 2025
Reckless Sleepers make contemporary theatre somewhere between dance, theatre and visual art. On stage there is a large construction that resembles two rooms with identical walls and floors. A dividing wall, with the same configuration of do...
In Conversation with Stewart Copeland (The Police)
Tuesday 7 October 2025
A-List rock star Stewart Copeland enjoyed remarkable success with The Police, and is one of the greatest drummers of all-time, a multi-Grammy winner, and a Rock and Roll Hall of Famer. Having played drums for Curved Air from 1975 to 1976, h...
Birmingham Royal Ballet - Black Sabbath
Wednesday 8 - Saturday 11 October 2025
Carlos Acosta turns up the volume on Birmingham's musical legacy as he brings Black Sabbath - The Ballet to Lowry for the first time. Black Sabbath - The Ballet delivers a spectacular theatrical experience featuring thrilling dance alongsid...
Far Gone
Wednesday 8 - Friday 10 October 2025
Northern Uganda. When Okumu's village is attacked by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), he and his brother's lives are changed forever. Inspired by John Rwothomack's own real-life experience of nearly being kidnapped by the LRA, Far Gone is ...
Snake in the Grass
Thursday 9 - Saturday 25 October 2025
A darkly comic thriller about family, secrets and manipulation. Annabel returns home after the death of her cruel father. Reunited with her sister Miriam, the siblings bicker as buried truths resurface. Tensions grow when his former nurse ...
1884
Thursday 9 - Friday 10 October 2025
Created by theatre-maker Rhianna Ilube and BAFTA-winning game-makers Coney, 1884 is an immersive game-theatre show inspired by the legacy of the 1884 Berlin Conference, an often-overlooked historical turning point for the African continent ...
Batty!
Thursday 9 October 2025
This new production from Victoria Firth & Company explores the wildness - as opposed to madness - of women, and how our feral side can reconnect us to ourselves and our environment. Have you got a wild side? Batty has, she dreams of running...
Mama Afrika
Thursday 9 October 2025
Zimbabwean born singer, musician and storyteller Anna Mudeka tells the remarkable life story of an iconic South African singer, songwriter and civil rights activist, Miriam Makeba, charting her rise from the townships of Johannesburg to glo...
RNCM Brass Band
Thursday 9 October 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...
Gandeys Halloween Spooktacular
Friday 10 October - Sunday 2 November 2025
Something wickedly spectacular this way comes...! Dare you enter the haunted Big Top? Gandeys Circus returns, bringing you a brand-new, spine-chilling, and action-packed Halloween Spooktacular-a legendary show filled with frights, delights,...
Sunny Afternoon
Friday 10 - Saturday 18 October 2025
Following a phenomenal two years in the West End and a sensational first UK and Ireland tour, the "indisputably terrific" (The Times) OLIVIER AWARD-WINNING BEST NEW MUSICAL, charting the euphoric highs and agonizing lows of THE KINKS, is ba...
Aunty Donna
Friday 10 - Saturday 11 October 2025
Australian YouTube, podcast and Netflix surrealist comedy superstars - Broden Kelly, Zachary Ruane and Mark Bonanno - bring their wonderfully riotous sketch comedy show Drem to Europe. Featuring a 75ish minute live show, with all new ...
Dancing at Lughnasa
Friday 10 October - Saturday 8 November 2025
"I want to dance, Kate. It's the festival of Lughnasa. I'm only thirty-five. I want to dance." Driven by an overwhelming desire, the five Mundy sisters dance. Together they twirl and spin, it is wild, passionate, reckless, and for the brief...
Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein - The Musical
Friday 10 October - Sunday 30 November 2025
From the creators of the record-breaking Broadway sensation, The Producers, comes this monster musical comedy. The comedy genius, Mel Brooks, adapts his legendarily funny film into a brilliant stage creation - Young Frankenstein! Grandson...
Mufutau Yusuf - Impasse
Friday 10 October 2025
A compelling exploration of ethnicity, identity, and the experience of the Black diaspora. Mufutau Yusuf's Impasse is an attempt to understand the politics of the Black body in a contemporary western society, interrogating notions of repres...
Manford's Comedy Club
Friday 10 October 2025 - Friday 1 May 2026
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.. ...
Defected
Saturday 11 October 2025
Defected and Glitterbox come to the Warehouse Project. Glitterbox is a nightlife phenomenon, conceptualised in 2015 by Defected boss Simon Dunmore. Ever since, Glitterbox has generated an inclusive, uplifting party atmosphere designed to...
Second Hand Dance - The Sticky Dance
Saturday 11 October 2025
Second Hand Dance present The Sticky Dance, an interactive, engaging and colourful performance installation for children aged 3-5 years old and their families. Three dancers' shimmy through the audience weaving a tapestry of sticky tape in...
Mary Portas
Saturday 11 October 2025
Join acclaimed author, retail pioneer and innovative businesswoman Mary Portas as she shares the inspiration behind her bold new memoir, I Shop, Therefore I Am: The '90s, Harvey Nicks and Me. With her signature wit and no-holds-barred h...
Dead Ringers
Sunday 12 October 2025
To mark its 25th anniversary, BBC Radio 4's legendary, multi-award-winning topical satire show takes to the road with a full UK tour for the first time. Starring long-standing cast members Jon Culshaw, Jan Ravens, Lewis MacLeod, and Dun...
London Concertante - Vivaldi's Four Seasons & The Lark Ascending
Sunday 12 October 2025
A stunning concert celebrating the virtuosity of the violin in all its forms, London Concertante brings Vivaldi's masterpiece to life in a wonderful concert featuring gems of baroque music. This concert features Vivaldi's Four Seasons; a...
Listen Very Carefully - The 'Allo 'Allo Podcast
Sunday 12 October 2025
Attenzion! You will listen very carefully. I shall say this only once. Following the success of their hit podcast, 'Allo 'Allo! stars Kim Hartman (Helga!), Guy Siner (Lieutenant Gruber!), and Richard Gibson (Herr Flick!) are now ...
Trigger Happy TV
Sunday 12 October 2025
It's been twenty-five years since Trigger Happy TV burst onto our screens, transforming the hidden camera format with its surreal universe of characters and unforgettable pranks. Now, to celebrate a quarter-century of chaos, Dom Joly is bri...
The Greatest Star - Barbra Streisand Tribute Show
Sunday 12 October 2025
Starring Kearra Bethany, as seen on ITV's Starstruck, The Greatest Star takes you on a magical musical journey through time as you sit back and relax enjoy the sounds of this fabulous concert style production. Barbra Streisand is, by far, o...
Hollyoaks - The 30th Anniversary Tour
Monday 13 October 2025
Three decades of hard-hitting storylines, jaw-dropping drama, and larger than life personalities - now it's time to go behind the scenes like never before! Join the stars of Hollyoaks up close and personal for an access-all-areas live tour,...
An Evening With Katie Price & Kerry Katona
Monday 13 October 2025
Model Katie Price and former Atomic Kitten Kerry Katona embark on a tell-all tour! Having been friends for over twenty years, they are looking forward hitting the road together and sharing stories of marriage and divorce, bankruptcy, 'I'm A...
Dirty Dusting
Monday 13 October 2025
An evening of pure theatrical Viagra starring Crissy Rock (Benidorm) and Leah Bell (Stage Award Winner) plus Vanessa Karon and Paul Dunn. Gladys, Olive and Elsie are three "vintage style" cleaning ladies who, threatened with redundan...
Led by Donkeys
Monday 13 October 2025
From viral billboards to guerrilla projections on Parliament, Led by Donkeys have taken political satire and direct action to a whole new level. Hear the story behind their book, Led by Donkeys: Art, Activism and Accountability - a high-o...
