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 The Home We Made, The Lightening Thief - The Percy Jackson Musical, The Last Picture, Crime and Punishment, Tales From Acorn Wood Live, I, Daniel Blake, Malory Towers, and Thespians, . 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 The Home We Made, The Lightening Thief - The Percy Jackson Musical, The Last Picture, Crime and Punishment, Tales From Acorn Wood Live, I, Daniel Blake, Malory Towers, and Thespians, . See what's on at the Home Mcr below and book tickets online.
Most Popular Shows and Events at HOME, Manchester
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What's On at HOME, Manchester
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (U)
Cinemas
Thursday 14 - Sunday 17 May 2026
Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell sparkle like diamonds in this classic Technicolor musical. Lorelei Lee and Dorothy Shaw are glamorous showgirls and friends with the world at their feet. One's blonde, the other brunette, and the pair have co...Gabriel Kidd: I found the giant and he was dead
Gallery
Thursday 14 - Sunday 17 May 2026
Through sculpture, drawing, sound, and writing, Kidd's work utilises queer tactics of parody, fluidity and vitality, to explore mythology, ecology and history. In Gabriel Kidd's first institutional solo show, they have created an immersive ...Live performance activation by Willow Swan and Ellis Berwick
Gallery
Thursday 14 May 2026
Live performance with reconfigured organ pipes creating a dialogue with Gabriel Kidd's solo exhibition I found the giant and he was dead. Willow Swan and Ellis Berwick activate the exhibition with a durational sound performance evolving the...Nicola Ellis: Exercises in Knowing
Gallery
Thursday 14 - Sunday 17 May 2026
For this exhibition, Exercises in Knowing, Nicola Ellis has created three new bodies of work that extend her ongoing collaboration with the steel enclosure manufacturer Ritherdon & Co in Darwen, Lancashire. In it, Ellis explores how we rela...Akira - 4K Reissue (15)
HOME, Manchester
Thursday 14 May 2026
Relive one of the most influential Sci-Fi stories ever told, 35 years after it introduced UK audiences to the cinematic spectacle and powerful stories of anime. Katsuhiro Otomo?s landmark cyberpunk epic Akira is exploding back onto cinema s...Exit 8 (15)
HOME, Manchester
Thursday 14 May 2026
A man trapped in a endless sterile subway passageway sets out to find Exit 8. ?The rules of his quest are simple: do not overlook anything out of the ordinary. If you discover an anomaly, turn back immediately. If you don?t, carry on. Then ...Hokum (15)
HOME, Manchester
Thursday 14 - Wednesday 20 May 2026
When reclusive novelist Ohm Bauman retreats to a remote Irish inn to scatter his parents? ashes, the staff?s tales of an ancient witch haunting the honeymoon suite take hold of his mind. Soon, disturbing visions and a shocking disappearance...Kokuho (15)
HOME, Manchester
Thursday 14 - Saturday 16 May 2026
Nagasaki, 1964. After the death of his father, the leader of a yakuza gang, 14-year-old Kikuo is taken under the wing of a famous Kabuki actor. Alongside Shunsuke, the actor?s only son, Kikuo decides to dedicate himself to this traditional ...Miroirs No. 3 (15)
HOME, Manchester
Thursday 14 May 2026
On a weekend trip to the countryside, Laura, a piano student from Berlin, miraculously survives a car crash. Physically unhurt but deeply shaken, she is taken in by a local woman who witnessed the accident and now cares for Laura with mothe...Night Stage (18)
HOME, Manchester
Thursday 14 May 2026
An ambitious actor and a successful politician begin a secret affair and discover a shared fetish for having sex in public places. As both pursue their dreams of greater fame and recognition they become increasingly addicted to the thrill o...Our Land (12A)
HOME, Manchester
Thursday 14 - Thursday 21 May 2026
Our Land dares to tread where few have trespassed before, asking the timely question of who has the right to roam in the English countryside?The UK is a wild and beautiful place, but the vast majority of it is off limits to the general publ...Romeria (15)
HOME, Manchester
Thursday 14 - Thursday 21 May 2026
Marina, 18, orphaned at a young age, must travel to Spain?s Atlantic coast to obtain a signature for a scholarship application from the paternal grandparents she has never met. She navigates a sea of new aunts, uncles, and cousins, uncertai...Rose of Nevada (15)
HOME, Manchester
Thursday 14 - Thursday 21 May 2026
In a forgotten fishing village, a boat mysteriously appears in the old harbour. The Rose of Nevada, lost at sea with all hands 30 years ago, has returned. For the few who remember, it?s a sign. The boat must go out to sea again, maybe then ...Stand By Me - 40th Anniversary (15)
HOME, Manchester
Thursday 14 May 2026
In a small, woodsy Oregon town, a group of friends - sensitive Geordie, tough guy Chris, flamboyant Teddy, and scaredy-cat Vern - are in search of a missing teenager?s body. Wanting to be heroes in each other?s and their hometown?s eyes, th...The Drama (15)
HOME, Manchester
Thursday 14 - Wednesday 20 May 2026
A happily engaged couple is put to the test when an unexpected turn sends their wedding week off the rails.?This film contains flickering or flashing lights that may affect those with photosensitive epilepsy....
The North (15)
HOME, Manchester
Thursday 14 - Tuesday 19 May 2026
Bart Schrijver?s acclaimed drama follows former best friends and roommates Chris and Lluis, who meet up after a decade to hike Scotland?s West Highland Way and Cape Wrath Trail. Having taken the same 350-mile walk in their youth, the pair h...Wake in Fright (18)
Cinemas
Friday 15 - Tuesday 19 May 2026
Presented in a 4K restoration but ignored upon its 1971 release, Wake in Fright has now been acclaimed as one of Australia's most legendary, unique and horrifying contributions to cinema history by the likes of Martin Scorsese and Nick Ca...Normal (15)
HOME, Manchester
Friday 15 - Thursday 21 May 2026
For Sheriff Ulysses, his provisional posting to the quaint Midwestern town of Normal was meant to be a welcome respite from both his marital woes and recent moral injuries in the line of duty. But when a botched bank robbery interrupts the ...Northern Soul: Still Burning (15)
HOME, Manchester
Friday 15 - Thursday 21 May 2026
Following on from 2012 documentary Keep on Burning - The Story of Northern Soul, this new film further explores the cultural phenomenon that is Northern Soul. Northern Soul: Still Burning charts how this movement has weaved and transformed ...Orphan (15)
HOME, Manchester
Friday 15 - Thursday 21 May 2026
1957. In Budapest, after the uprising against the Communist regime, a young Jewish boy, Andor, raised by his mother with idealized tales of his deceased father, has his world turned upside down when a man appears, claiming to be his true fa...The Christophers (15)
HOME, Manchester
Friday 15 - Thursday 21 May 2026
Lori divides her time between freelance art restoration and work in a food truck. Her lacklustre fortunes change when she?s approached by the estranged heirs of brilliant painter Julian Sklar with an exciting proposition: Lori will steal a ...Shrek - 25th Anniversary Screening (U)
Cinemas
Saturday 16 - Sunday 31 May 2026
Once upon a time - well, 25 years ago (2001) - in a faraway swamp, there lived an ogre named Shrek. The ogre's precious solitude is shattered by the arrival of an assortment of annoying fairytale characters - all banished from their kingdom...Roy Claire Potter in conversation with Gabriel Kidd
Event Space
Sunday 17 May 2026
Join Roy Claire Potter in conversation with solo artist Gabriel Kidd on the occasion of their solo exhibition at HOME, I found the giant and he was dead. They will discuss the themes explored in Kidd's exhibition and Potter's book The Waste...Algorithm Party (18) + Q&A
HOME, Manchester
Monday 18 May 2026
In Algorithm Party, spoken word artist ?Roy? (PJ Smith) reimagines his debut publication of the same name for the big screen. Algorithm Party is an authentic, forthright glimpse into working class life, told with a blunt honesty with humour...Algorithm Party (CTBA) + Q&A
HOME, Manchester
Monday 18 May 2026
In Algorithm Party, spoken word artist ?Roy? (PJ Smith) reimagines his debut publication of the same name for the big screen. Algorithm Party is an authentic, forthright glimpse into working class life, told with a blunt honesty with humour...Exhibition on Screen: Frida Kahlo (12A)
HOME, Manchester
Tuesday 19 - Sunday 24 May 2026
Frida Kahlo is a phenomenon. She is arguably the world?s favourite female artist - beloved by young and old. Exhibition on Screen?s award-winning film is back in cinemas by popular demand with an exciting new addition from the curators of t...Best of British: Jewish Culture Month (18)
HOME, Manchester
Wednesday 20 May 2026
An entertaining and thought-provoking evening of some of the most outstanding British-Jewish short films commissioned by UK Jewish Film over the first quarter of the 21st century.?Screening in this programme:Beshert? (Dir. Lewis Rose) - Whe...The Plumber (15)
HOME, Manchester
Thursday 21 May 2026
Spending most of her days alone at home while her husband is away at work, a young anthropology student is troubled by repeated visits from her building?s gregarious repairman. Class conflict is fought through polite insults, perverse mind ...Finding Emily (12A)
HOME, Manchester
Friday 22 - Thursday 28 May 2026
When a lovesick musician is given the wrong number for his dream girl, he teams up with a driven psychology student to find her. Together, they spark a hilarious campus-wide frenzy that tests their own hearts and ambitions along the way.??T...The Corinthians: We Were The Champions (PG)
Cinemas
Saturday 23 May 2026
This is the incredible real-life story of the original rebel girls of football - The Corinthians Ladies FC from Manchester - who defied The FA's 50-year ban on women playing to become global champions. Told exclusively by 10 surviving playe...
The Singing Mermaid
Theatre 1
Saturday 23 - Sunday 24 May 2026
3 - 8 year olds and their families will love this adaptation of Julia Donaldson and Lydia Monk's hugely popular book, brought to life with beautiful puppetry and performance and music and songs by Barb Jungr (We're All Going On A Bear Hunt)...Recovered: The Daleks' Master Plan comes HOME (18)
HOME, Manchester
Saturday 23 May 2026
Experience an evening of Doctor Who on the big screen with Recovered: The Daleks? Master Plan comes HOME. This special event presents the first three episodes of 1965 serial The Daleks? Master Plan ? two of which were recently recovered fro...All About Eve (U)
HOME, Manchester
Sunday 24 May 2026
From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, young Eve Harrington is determined to take the reins of power away from the great veteran actress Margo Channing. Eve manoeuvres her way into Margo's Broadway role, becomes a sensatio...Dog-friendly Screening/ Finding Emily (12A)
HOME, Manchester
Sunday 24 May 2026
When a lovesick musician is given the wrong number for his dream girl, he teams up with a driven psychology student to find her. Together, they spark a hilarious campus-wide frenzy that tests their own hearts and ambitions along the way.?Fi...Sexuality Summer School/ Laws of Love + Sanctus + discussion (18)
HOME, Manchester
Tuesday 26 May 2026
The Sexuality Summer School returns to HOME for its 2026 edition, and another evening of fascinating film and discussion. The theme for the 2026 edition is ?On the Biological? - an exploration of contemporary political and intellectual deba...IN THE BRAIN
HOME, Manchester
Wednesday 27 - Saturday 30 May 2026
Hofesh Shechter?s exhilarating new, full-length work for Shechter II, IN THE BRAIN, is a raw,?electrifying dive into movement, rhythm, and collective energy. A pulsing, urgent journey into?the depths of our consciousness?where stories disso...Titicut Follies (18)
HOME, Manchester
Wednesday 27 May 2026
Frederick Wiseman?s landmark debut film takes us inside a Massachusetts institution for the criminally insane, unflinchingly documenting the treatment and mistreatment of inmates. Wiseman?s unique ability to observe and sculpt reality using...National Theatre Live - Playboy of the Western World
HOME, Manchester
Thursday 28 - Saturday 30 May 2026
Nicola Coughlan (Bridgerton) joins Eanna Hardwicke (The Sixth Commandment) and Siobhan McSweeney (Derry Girls) in John Millington Synge's riveting play of youth and self-discovery. Pegeen Flaherty's life is turned upside down when a young m...Baby & Carer/ Finding Emily (12A)
HOME, Manchester
Thursday 28 May 2026
When a lovesick musician is given the wrong number for his dream girl, he teams up with a driven psychology student to find her. Together, they spark a hilarious campus-wide frenzy that tests their own hearts and ambitions along the way.??F...Nation
HOME, Manchester
Thursday 28 - Saturday 30 May 2026
Following smash-hit we were promised honey! YESYESNONO return to HOME with another storytelling hit from the Edinburgh Fringe 2024. It?s about a butcher and a baker and a farmer and a dog. It?s about a stranger knocking at the door. It?s ab...Creative Tiny Humans
Creativity Corner
Friday 29 May 2026 - Friday 26 March 2027
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 ...Cult/ Cronos (15)
HOME, Manchester
Friday 29 May 2026
Guillermo del Toro?s Cannes prize-winning directorial debut offers a unique take on the classic vampire story. When antiques dealer Jes?s Gris discovers an ancient artefact in the form of a golden mechanical scarab, he is unaware of the pow...Family Film/ Monsters Inc. (U)
HOME, Manchester
Friday 29 May 2026
There's a reason why there are monsters in children's closets - it's their job. Monsters, Inc. is the most successful scream-processing factory in the monster world, and there is no better Scarer than James P. Sullivan ? or Sulley to his fr...Don't Bother to Knock (18)
HOME, Manchester
Sunday 31 May 2026
Reeling from a recent break-up, Jed Towers checks into a New York hotel and is immediately drawn to one of his fellow guests. Nell Forbes appears to be glamorous and worldly, and she?s staying in the room directly opposite ? for Jed, she mi...The Misfits (CTBA)
HOME, Manchester
Monday 1 - Sunday 14 June 2026
Nevada, the "leave it" state: a gathering ground for misfits, burnouts, empty bottles and spare atom bombs. It's home to a host of interesting strangers. Roslyn is a beautiful but na?ve woman, set adrift after a shotgun divorce. Guido and G...
Malory Towers
Theatre 1
Tuesday 2 - Saturday 13 June 2026
Nostalgic, naughty, and perfect for now, Enid Blyton's Malory Towers is the original 'Girl Power' story. Get ready for high jinks, high drama and high spirits, all set to sensational live music, as Emma Rice Company's production has been de...Mothers Who Make
Event Space
Tuesday 2 June - Thursday 2 July 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...Punku (18) + Q&A
HOME, Manchester
Tuesday 2 June 2026
Deep in the Peruvian Amazon lowlands, Meshia, a Matsigenka Indigenous teenager, discovers Ivan, a young boy who vanished two years ago and was presumed dead. Determined to save him, she embarks on a journey upriver into the mountains, headi...The Amazing Digital Circus: The Last Act (CTBA)
HOME, Manchester
Thursday 4 - Friday 5 June 2026
The viral internet sensation The Amazing Digital Circus comes to its highly anticipated conclusion in a feature-length theatrical release. This special cinema release combines episode 8 with the all-new, hour-long episode 9 for fans to expe...Playreading Sessions
Event Space
Friday 5 June - Friday 4 December 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...SCATTERCHILD - A NEW OCEAN AWAITS
HOME, Manchester
Friday 5 June 2026
Part gig, part film screening, part theatre sharingThis intimate event will explore the creation of SCATTERCHILD?s new album, placing its themes under the lens in a one-of-a-kind live performance that?s part gig, part film screening, and pa...Family Film/ Zog + Zog and the Flying Doctors (U)
HOME, Manchester
Sunday 7 - Friday 26 June 2026
With the arrival of a new series showcasing more of Zog?s adventures, revisit the first big screen outings for Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler?s loveable dragon. Screening in this programme:?Zog?Zog wants to learn how to fly, roar, and b...Niagara (18)
HOME, Manchester
Sunday 7 June 2026
Ray and Polly Cutler arrive in Niagara Falls on their honeymoon ? only to find that their cabin is occupied by another couple. George and Rose Loomis have returned to the Falls, the site of their own honeymoon, in the hope of saving their s...Madfabulous (12A)
HOME, Manchester
Monday 8 June 2026
When the flamboyant Henry Paget arrives in 1890's North Wales to claim his aristocratic inheritance, his theatrical flair and defiant eccentricities send shockwaves through the upper-class elite, much to the amusement of the local townspeop...Some Like It Hot (U)
HOME, Manchester
Wednesday 10 - Sunday 21 June 2026
Joe and Jerry are down on their luck jazz musicians who find themselves out of a job when the police raid the speakeasy they perform in. Things go from bad to worse when they inadvertently stumble upon a gang war and must go on the run afte...Rozpad (18) + discussion
HOME, Manchester
Wednesday 17 June 2026
Rozpad, which translates to English as Decay, is the first feature film about the disaster at the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Soviet Ukraine ? an incident often referred to by the Russian spelling of the town?s name, Chernobyl. It is A...Everybody to Kenmure Street (12A)
HOME, Manchester
Thursday 18 June 2026
In May 2021, a UK Home Office dawn raid triggers one of the most spontaneous and successful acts of civil resistance in recent memory. In Pollokshields, Scotland?s most diverse neighbourhood, hundreds of residents rush to the streets to sto...Manchester Open 2026
HOME, Manchester
Friday 19 June - Sunday 6 September 2026
A celebration of Greater Manchester's creative talentThe Manchester Open is the biggest celebration of Greater Manchester's artists and creative talent - and it returns this summer. Taking place every two years, The Manchester Open is an ex...Pirate Princess
Theatre 2
Saturday 20 June 2026
Pirate Princess is a heart warming story of hope against adversity told with physical Theatre, clowning and circus. This brand new solo show by circus performer and professional idiot Gemma Bond tells the tale of poor shipwrecked Princess P...Family Film/ Missing Link (PG)
HOME, Manchester
Sunday 21 June - Saturday 4 July 2026
Meet Mr. Link: 8 feet tall, 630 lbs, and covered in fur, but don?t let his appearance fool you? he is funny, sweet, and adorably literal, making him the world?s most lovable legend. Tired of living a solitary life in the Pacific Northwest, ...
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.
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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