WHAT'S ON AT HOME, MANCHESTER
What's On at HOME, Manchester
Home Manchester is a bustling venue that boasts two theatres, five cinemas and an arts centre with gallery. It is one of the few UK venues that produces, commissions and presents work across all mediums of film, theatre and visual art. Home opened in 2015, merging the Cornerhouse and Library Theatre Company into one space. Theatre 1 has a seated capacity of 500, whilst theatre 2 is 150 in a flexible studio space.
Home Mcr hosts drama, dance, film, visual arts, new commissions, education and workshops. It showcases and works alongside both international and UK artists, with a keen eye on promoting local work. Home has premiered numerous projects, including work by local writer and actress Eve Steele.
Home has many shows, events and productions to look forward to including Census, Ordinary Decent Criminal, the new Disney musical Freaky Friday, and A Christmas Carol. See what's on at the Home Mcr below and book tickets online.
Home Manchester is a bustling venue that boasts two theatres, five cinemas and an arts centre with gallery. It is one of the few UK venues that produces, commissions and presents work across all mediums of film, theatre and visual art. Home opened in 2015, merging the Cornerhouse and Library Theatre Company into one space. Theatre 1 has a seated capacity of 500, whilst theatre 2 is 150 in a flexible studio space.
Home Mcr hosts drama, dance, film, visual arts, new commissions, education and workshops. It showcases and works alongside both international and UK artists, with a keen eye on promoting local work. Home has premiered numerous projects, including work by local writer and actress Eve Steele.
Home has many shows, events and productions to look forward to including Census, Ordinary Decent Criminal, the new Disney musical Freaky Friday, and A Christmas Carol. See what's on at the Home Mcr below and book tickets online.
Most Popular Shows and Events at HOME, Manchester
The Lightning Thief: the Percy Jackson Musical
HOME
Thu 12 - Sun 22 Feb 2026
Thespians - Greece The Musical (But not that one)
HOME
Wed 8 - Sun 19 Jul 2026
What's On at HOME, Manchester
Freaky Friday
Theatre 1
Friday 5 December 2025 - Thursday 3 December 2026
The new musical, Freaky Friday, based on the beloved 1972 novel by Mary Rodgers and the hit Disney films, which has captured the hearts of generations, comes to HOME with its UK stage premiere next year. When an overworked mother and her t...Wicked: For Good (PG)
Cinemas
Friday 5 - Friday 12 December 2025
Witness the epic conclusion of Wicked, as Glinda and Elphaba will need to come together one final time to save Oz. Elphaba, now demonized as The Wicked Witch of the West, lives in exile, hidden within the Ozian forest while continuing her f...Playreading Sessions
Event Space
Friday 5 December 2025 - Saturday 7 November 2026
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...Blue Moon (15)
HOME, Manchester
Friday 5 - Thursday 11 December 2025
On the evening of March 31, 1943, legendary lyricist Lorenz Hart confronts his shattered self-confidence in Sardi?s bar as his former collaborator Richard Rodgers celebrates the opening night of his ground-breaking hit musical ?Oklahoma!?.?...Bugonia (15)
HOME, Manchester
Friday 5 - Thursday 11 December 2025
Jesse Plemons is outstanding as a conspiracy-obsessed paranoiac who, with the help of his brother, kidnaps a powerful CEO, believing she is an alien intent on destroying Earth. An inspired take on Jang Joon-hwan?s 2003 South Korean satire S...Dreamers (15)
HOME, Manchester
Friday 5 - Thursday 11 December 2025
After fleeing persecution at home, Nigerian migrant Isio is sent to Hatchworth Removal Centre, where she hopes her asylum plea will receive a fair hearing. Isio believes the only way out is to play by the rules, even when her charismatic ne...Eternity (15)
HOME, Manchester
Friday 5 - Thursday 11 December 2025
In an afterlife where souls have one week to decide where to spend eternity, Joan is faced with the impossible choice between the man she spent her life with and her first love, who died young and has waited decades for her to arrive.?...Gallifrey Cabaret Presents It's Behind WHO
HOME, Manchester
Friday 5 December 2025 - Thursday 3 December 2026
IT?S BEHIND WHO!The Doctor has crash-landed further than they?ve ever been before? PANTO LAND! Oh yes they have!But with time (and space) running out, and questionable puns reaching critical levels, can the universe be saved? Or is this one...In the Mood for Love - 25th Anniversary (PG)
HOME, Manchester
Friday 5 - Thursday 11 December 2025
Hong Kong, 1962: Chow Mo-wan and Su Li-zhen move into neighbouring apartments on the same day. Their encounters are formal and polite - until a discovery about their spouses creates an intimate bond between them. At once delicately mannered...It Was Just an Accident (12A)
HOME, Manchester
Friday 5 - Thursday 11 December 2025
A minor traffic accident reunites two men with a shared past. One is set on revenge, but then doubts set in. It Was Just an Accident opens as a languid and at times gently humorous road trip, with the actions of each participant keenly obse...Pillion (18)
HOME, Manchester
Friday 5 - Thursday 11 December 2025
Colin is a quiet, unassuming man with supportive parents whose world is rocked when he enters a dom-sub relationship with towering, attractive biker Ray. Navigating his new role, he learns about its pleasures and pains, including those that...Roots in the Sky
HOME, Manchester
Friday 5 December 2025 - Thursday 3 December 2026
Roots in the Sky is the first institutional curatorial project by British-Nigerian artist Tunji Adeniyi-Jones. This pivotal exhibition brings together new and recent works by ten contemporary artists whose practices span the United States, ...Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (12A)
HOME, Manchester
Friday 5 - Thursday 11 December 2025
He solved the murder of the patriarch of a bitter, feuding family. He entered the labyrinthine world of a tech bro to peel away the layers of deceit and treachery to reveal their murderer. Now Benoit Blanc faces his toughest challenge yet ?...Family Film/ CBeebies Panto 2025: Cinderella (CTBA)
HOME, Manchester
Saturday 6 December 2025
Sparkling with CBeebies stars, this unique adaption of pantomime classic Cinderella is full of music, magic and festive fun for all the family. Join Cinderella, Buttons and some funny new characters for a story that celebrates finding your ...Family Film/ CBeebies Panto 2025: Cinderella (U)
HOME, Manchester
Saturday 6 December 2025
Sparkling with CBeebies stars, this unique adaption of pantomime classic Cinderella is full of music, magic and festive fun for all the family. Join Cinderella, Buttons and some funny new characters for a story that celebrates finding your ...The Wicked Lady (PG) + discussion
HOME, Manchester
Saturday 6 December 2025
Writer and director Leslie Arliss reunited with Margaret Lockwood and James Mason ? the stars of 1943?s The Man in Grey ? for what is perhaps the most famous of all the Gainsborough Melodramas: The Wicked Lady. Based on the novel, Life and ...Still Pushing Pineapples (12A)
HOME, Manchester
Sunday 7 December 2025
What happens when you?ve created the worst hit song ever ? at least according to the music press??What comes after fleeting fame, and what does it mean to grow old still chasing a dream?Kim Hopkins? moving and funny follow up to her documen...Still Pushing Pineapples (CTBA)
HOME, Manchester
Sunday 7 December 2025
What happens when you?ve created the worst hit song ever ? at least according to the music press??What comes after fleeting fame, and what does it mean to grow old still chasing a dream?Kim Hopkins? moving and funny follow up to her documen...Audio Described Event/ Roots in the Sky Presented by Mind's Eye
HOME, Manchester
Monday 8 December 2025
Join us at HOME for an exclusive audio described tour of Roots in the Sky, the first institutional curatorial project by British-Nigerian artist Tunji Adeniyi-Jones. This pivotal exhibition brings together new and recent works by ten contem...Testimony (12A)
HOME, Manchester
Monday 8 December 2025
Testimony is a profoundly moving documentary that chronicles the fight for justice by survivors of Ireland?s Magdalene Laundries and Mother and Baby Homes. It captures the determination of these women, supported by the advocacy group Justic...Testimony (CTBA)
HOME, Manchester
Monday 8 December 2025
Testimony is a profoundly moving documentary that chronicles the fight for justice by survivors of Ireland?s Magdalene Laundries and Mother and Baby Homes. It captures the determination of these women, supported by the advocacy group Justic...Magnificent Obsession (U) + intro
HOME, Manchester
Wednesday 10 December 2025
The film that first brought together stars Jane Wyman and Rock Hudson, Magnificent Obsession is one of Douglas Sirk?s most well-known melodramas. The story begins when playboy Bob Merrick wrecks his speed boat, and the rescue team resuscita...HOME Young Company Showcase
HOME, Manchester
Thursday 11 - Friday 12 December 2025
Join us at HOME for a two-night celebration of creativity and bold new voices. Members of HOME?s Young Company have been exploring solo performance, experimenting with form, voice, and storytelling to develop their own unique work. Across t...Zodiac Killer Project (15)
HOME, Manchester
Thursday 11 December 2025
Having tried and failed to make a true crime documentary, filmmaker Charlie Shackleton instead tells the story of what might have been. In this wholly original, self-aware cinematic work, the true crime boom is put under the microscope as f...It's a Wonderful Life (U)
Cinemas
Friday 12 - Wednesday 24 December 2025
★★★★★ "It's a Wonderful Life is the closest thing to a postwar American Dickens. This is considered by many to be one of the finest films ever made." ~ Little White Lies. --- Frank Capra's heart-warming 1946 masterpiece has been...The Muppet Christmas Carol (U)
HOME, Manchester
Saturday 13 - Wednesday 24 December 2025
★★★★ The Muppets do Dickens with that trademark blast of irreverence, affection and tap-along tunes. ~ The Times. --- A Christmas cinema screening of Brian Henson's 1992 classic, starring The Muppets and Michael Caine. The Muppets ...Motherline: an event from Mothers who Make
HOME, Manchester
Saturday 13 December 2025
Join us to celebrate new work from over 50 women in the community alongside professional artists all responding to the theme of our Motherlines. Expect an array of imaginative, moving and creative responses from visual arts to live performa...The Merchant of Four Seasons (15)
HOME, Manchester
Saturday 13 December 2025
Released in 1972, The Merchant of Four Seasons was a turning point in the career of director Rainer Werner Fassbinder. It marked both an international breakthrough, receiving critical acclaim outside and inside West Germany, and a notable i...Royal Ballet/ The Nutcracker (CTBA)
HOME, Manchester
Sunday 14 December 2025
The magician Herr Drosselmeyer needs to save his nephew. Hans-Peter has been transformed into a Nutcracker; the only way to save him is for the Nutcracker to defeat the Mouse King and find a girl to love and care for him. A flicker of hope ...There's Always Tomorrow (PG)
HOME, Manchester
Monday 15 December 2025
Clifford Groves leads an unremarkable life as a toy manufacturer in Pasadena, California. Feeling ignored and unappreciated by his wife and children, Groves begins to rekindle an old relationship when a former employee unexpectedly walks ba...Gone Too Far (12A) + discussion
HOME, Manchester
Tuesday 16 December 2025
London teenager Yemi risks losing the small amount of street cred he has thanks to the arrival of his estranged big brother from Nigeria. Ikudayisi?s terrible fashion sense, broad Yoruba accent and misplaced confidence with the opposite sex...A Christmas Carol (HOME)
Theatre 2
Thursday 18 - Saturday 20 December 2025
After the success of last year's Nightmares, The Book of Darkness & Light return with their ghostly adaption of this most beloved festive classic. Join Ebenezer Scrooge on a supernatural journey into the past, present and yet-to-come. The c...Fox and His Friends (15)
HOME, Manchester
Thursday 18 December 2025
Another of Rainer Werner Fassbinder?s films that is clearly indebted to the Hollywood melodramas of Douglas Sirk, Fox and His Friends is a tale of money, emotion and social class. The plot follows a working-class gay man, played by Fassbind...Creative Tiny Humans
HOME, Manchester
Friday 19 December 2025 - Saturday 28 November 2026
Join us in the Creativity Corner for our baby and toddler group drop in session to enjoy crafts, chats and creativity. Expect making for tiny hands, stories and most importantly PLAY. Join artist and community facilitator Phoebe Foxtrot on ...Family Film/ A Paw Patrol Christmas (U)
HOME, Manchester
Saturday 20 - Sunday 28 December 2025
Join everyone?s favourite pups on a big screen mission to save Christmas!Search and rescue pup Rubble is looking forward to Santa bringing him a new laser drill, but things take a turn when Santa comes down with a cold and can?t deliver any...Family Film/ How the Grinch Stole Christmas - 25th Anniversary (PG)
HOME, Manchester
Saturday 20 - Tuesday 23 December 2025
High above the idyllic town of Whoville lives the Grinch: a grouchy, green recluse who is on a mission against merriment. After his latest humiliation at the hands of the Whos of Whoville, the Grinch sets out for revenge by ruining Christma...The Tarnished Angels (U)
HOME, Manchester
Saturday 20 December 2025
Following his 1956 success Written on the Wind, Douglas Sirk reunited with that film?s stars - Rock Hudson, Robert Stack and Dorothy Malone - the following year to make Tarnished Angels: an adaptation of William Faulkner?s 1935 novel, Pylon...Family Film/ The Polar Express (U)
HOME, Manchester
Monday 22 December 2025
Late on Christmas Eve, a young boy lies awake in bed doubting the existence of Santa Claus and nervously waiting to hear the sound of sleigh bells. Instead a magical steam engine roars outside his window, bound for the North Pole. The train...The Marriage of Maria Braun (15)
HOME, Manchester
Monday 22 December 2025
First screened at the 1979 Berlin Film Festival, Rainer Werner Fassbinder?s The Marriage of Maria Braun focusses on the life of a woman navigating post-war West Germany. Hanna Schygulla, one of the director?s most trusted collaborators, pla...Mothers Who Make
Event Space
Friday 16 January - Thursday 5 November 2026
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...The Home We Made
HOME, Manchester
Thursday 29 January - Sunday 1 February 2026
Maybe it starts with a brew that never gets finished, a laugh shared under the rain, or a stranger who turns into someone you can't imagine life without. For moments like these, a city is built. From voices like these, a story begins. The H...Obscura
HOME, Manchester
Saturday 7 February 2026
A bold and original double-bill from Manchester?s Company Chameleon, Obscura dancesbetween light and darkness, exploring the hidden corners of self and society.A powerful and nuanced trio, delicate and explosive in equal measure, Umbra, spo...The Lightning Thief: the Percy Jackson Musical
Theatre 1
Thursday 12 - Sunday 22 February 2026
Adapted from Rick Riordan's best-selling novel by Joe Tracz, writer of Be More Chill, and with an electrifying rock score by Rob Rokicki, The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical is the perfect adventure for gods and mortals alike. Wh...House of Comedy
Theatre 2
Friday 13 - Saturday 14 February 2026
For one night only, enjoy a lineup of budding stars making waves in the comedy scene alongside nationally celebrated headline acts. House of Comedy night welcomes everyone, from die-hard comedy fans to those just looking for a last-minute l...The Last Picture
HOME, Manchester
Thursday 19 - Sunday 22 February 2026
Imagine yourself in a theatre in 2026. Now picture yourself as a Year 9 student on a school trip. And then, as a citizen of Europe in 1939, as history takes its darkest turn. While you imagine, Sam will be by your side. Sam is an emotional ...Oxventure
Theatre 1
Friday 20 - Saturday 21 February 2026
With all things table-top, from Outside Xbox and Outside Xtra, the massively successful video game channels devoted to Dungeons & Dragons, Blades in the Dark, One-Shot Wonder and more, The Oxventurers Guild make their triumphant return wit...Golden Time
HOME, Manchester
Friday 27 February - Sunday 1 March 2026
How do we incentivise our joy? Do we feel like our free time has to be earned?Golden Time is a primary school incentive rewarding free time and play for good behaviour. Kate?starts working in a primary school and experiences this reward sys...Tim Key
Theatre 1
Thursday 5 - Saturday 7 March 2026
 Comedian and poet Tim Key (Alan Partridge, The Ballad of Wallis Island, Tim Key's Late Night Poetry Programme) again pops his suit on, plods about, in a brand new show, Loganberry. Bit gutted he's old. Guzzling continental lager. Magneti...Box Of Tales
HOME, Manchester
Sunday 8 March 2026
World-famous magical explorer Professor Jigget has been on yet another story-collecting adventure. This time, he's managed to squish and squash all of his new stories into one big Box of Tales. Surely nothing can go wrong with that now... c...Eastbenders
HOME, Manchester
Friday 13 - Sunday 15 March 2026
We're coming to Manc to throw a big East End bash with the most iconic Albert Square residents as you've never seen them before... Get the bubbly out of the fridge, because we're taking the East all the way North, and turning HOME Theatre i...Dungeon Crawler Carl
Theatre 1
Monday 16 - Tuesday 17 March 2026
 New York Times bestselling author Matt Dinniman and legendary voice actor Jeff Hays are hitting the road with the highly anticipated Dungeon Crawler Carl LIVE TOUR, bringing the wildly popular book series to the stage for the first time...Crime and Punishment
HOME, Manchester
Friday 20 - Sunday 22 March 2026
In the heart of a bustling city, a penniless student murders in cold blood. He is caught in a spiral of paranoia and delusion as a cunning detective circles. Only the chance of love offers a way out. ?What drives a young man to murder? This...Mr Wilson's Second Liners: Blowout 2026
HOME, Manchester
Friday 20 March 2026
An eruptive night of live dance musicMr. Wilson?s Second Liners kick off the year as they mean to go on, banging out 90?s dance classics for the local, loyal, diehard ravers. ?Blowout the old and be the first to hear their new arrangements....A Grain of Sand
HOME, Manchester
Friday 27 - Sunday 29 March 2026
Adapted from A Million Kites: Testimonies and Poems from the Children of Gaza by Leila Boukarim and Asaf LuzonRenad, a young Gazan girl, embarks on a dangerous journey. Carrying only the echoes of her grandmother?s tales and the spark of he...Bog Witch
HOME, Manchester
Friday 27 - Sunday 29 March 2026
Following a hugely critically acclaimed London run, legendary performance artist Bryony Kimmings (I?m a Phoenix, Bitch, Credible Likeable Superstar Role Model, Fake It Till You Make It) brings her hit show ?Bog Witch? to HOME Manchester for...Alasdair Beckett-King: King of Crumbs
HOME, Manchester
Friday 3 April 2026
Alasdair Beckett-King is the crumbliest comedian in the game: a multi-award-winning?stand-up comic and (occasionally) an internet sensation. Come?vagabonds, come mountebanks, come coney-catchers and cutpurses?and meet the King of Crumbs! As...The City for Incurable Women
HOME, Manchester
Friday 3 - Sunday 5 April 2026
??Ladies and Gentlethem ? feeling a little upset? Have you tried hypnosis, psychoanalysis, smelling salts and it just doesn't work? Try The City for Incurable Women!Paris, 1880s. In a psychiatric hospital, female patients performed ?hysteri...Tales from Acorn Wood Live
HOME, Manchester
Saturday 4 - Monday 6 April 2026
Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler's beloved Tales from the Acorn Wood Stories are brought to life on stage for the first time in an enchanting lift-the-flap experience. Poor old Fox has lost his socks! Are they in the kitchen or inside the...IDOL WORSHIP - An Evening with Mink Stole & Peaches Christ
HOME, Manchester
Sunday 12 April 2026
An intimate, revelatory, and heartfelt cabaret show starring living legend and cult film icon Mink Stole alongside San Francisco drag impresario, filmmaker Peaches Christ is coming to HOME MCR. Mink and Peaches have been close friends for o...I Daniel Blake
HOME, Manchester
Wednesday 22 - Sunday 26 April 2026
Dan is a carpenter. ?A Geordie through and through. ?Just on the mend after a heart attack.?Katie has just arrived from London. Finally got a council house for her and the kids. ?A fresh start.?I, Daniel Blake is one of the most important s...How to get to HOME, Manchester
HOME Frequently Asked Questions
2 Tony Wilson Place, Manchester, M15 4FN
There are number of car parks close to Home Manchester. The closest car park is Q-Park First Street.
If you pre-book online, use code HOMEMCR25 to receive a discount of 25%.
The nearest train stations are Deansgate (approximately a 6 minute walk) and Oxford Road (approximately a 9 minute walk).
The nearest tram stop is St Peter's Square (approximately a 4 minute walk) or Deansgate Castlefield (approximately a 6 minute walk).
Theatre 1 has a seating capacity of 500. Theatre 2 has a capacity of 150. Click here to view theatre 1.
Please contact Home directly. Click here for further details.
If you would like to buy a ticket in person from Home, their box office opening hours are 12.00 - 20.00. Alternatively, you can see what's on and book online here.
When we know of a duration of a show, we add it to the description of the show on our event pages. For example, on our Wicked event page, after the description of the show we have added the duration of the show in large capital letters. If the time isn't listed, we do not have the information yet. We update our pages daily so it maybe a case of knowing closer to the performance itself, so keep checking.
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Most Popular Shows and Events at HOME, Manchester
The Lightning Thief: the Percy Jackson Musical
HOME
Thu 12 - Sun 22 Feb 2026
Thespians - Greece The Musical (But not that one)
HOME
Wed 8 - Sun 19 Jul 2026
