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
Thespians - Greece The Musical (But not that one)
HOME
Wed 8 - Sun 19 Jul 2026
The Lightning Thief: the Percy Jackson Musical
HOME
Thu 12 - Sun 22 Feb 2026
What's On at HOME, Manchester
Wicked: For Good (PG)
Cinemas
Tuesday 25 - Thursday 27 November 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...Benediction (12A) + intro
HOME, Manchester
Tuesday 25 November 2025
Known primarily today as an anti-war poet, Siegfried Sassoon?s life is rich with contradictions that make the life-spanning narrative of Benediction the perfect approach. Awarded for his gallantry in World War I, he went on to fiercely oppo...Bugonia (15)
HOME, Manchester
Tuesday 25 - Thursday 27 November 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...Die My Love (15)
HOME, Manchester
Tuesday 25 - Thursday 27 November 2025
From renowned filmmaker Lynne Ramsay, Die, My Love is a visceral and uncompromising portrait of a woman engulfed by love and madness. Anchored by a ferocious, tour de force performance from Jennifer Lawrence, and co-starring Robert Pattinso...Frankenstein (15)
HOME, Manchester
Tuesday 25 November 2025
Few contemporary filmmakers are as adept at balancing attention to detail and technical prowess with genuine emotional heft as Academy Award-winning filmmaker Del Toro (Pan?s Labyrinth, The Shape of Water). His take on Mary Shelley?s master...Game (15)
HOME, Manchester
Tuesday 25 - Thursday 27 November 2025
Late summer 1993. After stealing a stash of money and drugs, aging raver David flees a forest party and crashes his car deep in the woods. Trapped in the wreckage, injured and helpless, he hangs suspended between life and death. When a myst...Jay Kelly (15)
HOME, Manchester
Tuesday 25 - Thursday 27 November 2025
Famous movie actor Jay Kelly and his devoted manager Ron embark on a whirlwind and unexpectedly profound journey. Both are forced to confront choices they've made, their relationships with loved ones and the legacies they'll leave behind.?...Left-Handed Girl (15)
HOME, Manchester
Tuesday 25 November 2025
A single mother and her two daughters return to Taipei after several years of living in the countryside to open a stand at a buzzing night market. Each in their way will have to adapt to this new environment to make ends meet and maintain t...Palestine 36 (12A)
HOME, Manchester
Tuesday 25 - Wednesday 26 November 2025
1936. As villages across Mandatory Palestine rise against British colonial rule, Yusuf drifts between his rural home and the restless energy of Jerusalem, longing for a future beyond the growing unrest. But history is relentless. With risin...Predators (18)
HOME, Manchester
Tuesday 25 - Wednesday 26 November 2025
A cultural sensation from its inception in the early 2000s, Dateline NBC?s candid-camera investigative series To Catch a Predator ensnared sex offenders and lured them to a film set, where they would be interviewed and arrested while camera...Roots in the Sky
HOME, Manchester
Tuesday 25 November 2025 - Monday 23 November 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, ...Terence Davies Archive - In Conversation with Edge Hill University
HOME, Manchester
Tuesday 25 November 2025
Join archivists from Edge Hill University for a fascinating exploration of the personal archive of master British filmmaker Terence Davies. This in conversation event will uncover the riches of the Terence Davies Archive ? a remarkable gate...The Choral (12A)
HOME, Manchester
Tuesday 25 - Wednesday 26 November 2025
1916. A Yorkshire village?s choral society finds its ranks depleted as men head off to war. With the annual performance looming, the society is forced to change its entry rules to enlist some unlikely teens and the musically gifted but soci...The Ice Tower (15)
HOME, Manchester
Tuesday 25 - Thursday 27 November 2025
Colder than ice, her kiss pierces the heart?The 1970s. Runaway Jeanne falls under the spell of Cristina, enigmatic star of The Snow Queen, a film of the Hans Christian Andersen story being shot in the studio where Jeanne has taken refuge. A...Ordinary Decent Criminal
Theatre 2
Wednesday 26 - Saturday 29 November 2025
A brand new play from the writer of the Fringe First winning England & Son and A Political History of Smack & Crack, Ed Edwards reunites with renowned political comedian Mark Thomas to tell a tale of freedom, revolution and messy love. Se...Mariana's Room (15)
HOME, Manchester
Wednesday 26 November 2025
In WW2-era Ukraine, 11-year-old Hugo, on the brink of adolescence, is taken in by his mother?s friend, Mariana, a sex worker at a brothel frequented mostly by German soldiers. Suspicious of one another at first, the two develop a strong and...Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (12A)
HOME, Manchester
Wednesday 26 - Thursday 27 November 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 ?...Freaky Friday
Theatre 1
Thursday 27 November 2025 - Sunday 11 January 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...National Theatre Live - The Fifth Step (15)
HOME, Manchester
Thursday 27 - Saturday 29 November 2025
Olivier Award-winner Jack Lowden (Slow Horses, Dunkirk) is joined by Emmy and BAFTA-winner Martin Freeman (The Hobbit, The Responder) in the critically acclaimed and subversively funny new play by David Ireland. After years in the 12-ste...Baby & Carer/ The Choral (12A)
HOME, Manchester
Thursday 27 November 2025
1916. A Yorkshire village?s choral society finds its ranks depleted as men head off to war. With the annual performance looming, the society is forced to change its entry rules to enlist some unlikely teens and the musically gifted but soci...NT Live/ The Fifth Step (15)
HOME, Manchester
Thursday 27 - Saturday 29 November 2025
Olivier Award-winner Jack Lowden (Slow Horses) is joined by Emmy and BAFTA-winner Martin Freeman (The Hobbit, The Responder) in the critically acclaimed and subversively funny new play by David Ireland.?After years in the 12-step programme ...Creative Tiny Humans
HOME, Manchester
Friday 28 November 2025 - Saturday 31 October 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/ CBeebies Panto 2025: Cinderella (CTBA)
HOME, Manchester
Saturday 29 November - 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 ...Bad Shabbos (12A)
HOME, Manchester
Sunday 30 November 2025
David and his soon-to-be-converted fianc?e, Meg, dread an upcoming Shabbat dinner at the Upper West Side home of David?s parents, Ellen and Richard. They have their reasons: Meg?s Catholic parents have been invited, neurotic Ellen is known ...Royal Ballet/ Cinderella (CTBA)
HOME, Manchester
Sunday 30 November 2025
Stuck at home and put to work by her spoiled Step-Sisters, Cinderella?s life is dreary and dull. Everything changes when she helps a mysterious woman out... With a little bit of magic, she is transported into an ethereal new world ? one whe...Filmed Up Dec 2025 (CTBA)
HOME, Manchester
Monday 1 December 2025
HOME?s quarterly showcase of films made by writers, directors or producers currently based in the North West. From grassroots guerrilla filmmakers to established productions companies, the film community is thriving in our region. Join us f...Dreamers (15)
HOME, Manchester
Tuesday 2 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...Gallifrey Cabaret Presents It's Behind WHO
HOME, Manchester
Tuesday 2 - Saturday 6 December 2025
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...British-Jewish Life on Film 2025 (12A) + Q&A
HOME, Manchester
Wednesday 3 December 2025
An evening of entertaining, poignant and life-affirming films about British Jewish life commissioned by UK Jewish Film.?Films in this programme:?To Fly or Float (dir. Charlotte Peters) - Birmingham, 1979. Newly-orphaned Eva moves in with he...Roots in the Sky: Public Gallery Tour
HOME, Manchester
Wednesday 3 December 2025
Join Clarissa Corfe, Creative Producer for Visual Art at HOME for a 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 ...Mothers Who Make
Event Space
Thursday 4 December 2025 - 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 Man in Grey (PG)
HOME, Manchester
Thursday 4 December 2025
Having been a successful writer in 1930s British cinema, Leslie Arliss began working as a director in the following decade. With The Man in Grey, released in 1943, he was able to gather a collection of rising stars - including Margaret Lock...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...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 (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 (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...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...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...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
Thespians - Greece The Musical (But not that one)
HOME
Wed 8 - Sun 19 Jul 2026
The Lightning Thief: the Percy Jackson Musical
HOME
Thu 12 - Sun 22 Feb 2026
