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
What's On at HOME, Manchester
Alpha (15)
HOME, Manchester
Monday 17 - Thursday 20 November 2025
Alpha, 13, is a troubled teenager who lives alone with her mother. Their world comes crashing down the day she comes home from school with a tattoo on her arm.??This work contains flashing images which may affect viewers who are susceptible...Bugonia (15)
HOME, Manchester
Monday 17 - Thursday 20 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...Come See Me in the Good Light (15)
HOME, Manchester
Monday 17 - Wednesday 19 November 2025
Come See Me in the Good Light is an intimate and unexpectedly uplifting portrait of love and mortality, which follows acclaimed poet Andrea Gibson and their partner Megan Falley as they face Andrea?s terminal cancer diagnosis. ?Through poet...Die My Love (15)
HOME, Manchester
Monday 17 - Thursday 20 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...Dragonfly (15)
HOME, Manchester
Monday 17 - Thursday 20 November 2025
Have we become a nation of strangers? In Dragonfly, neglected pensioner Elsie finds an unexpected ally in her younger neighbour Colleen. Over time, Elsie gains a friend and the troubled Colleen finds a fresh purpose in life as she shops, cl...Frankenstein (15)
HOME, Manchester
Monday 17 - Thursday 20 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...Palestine 36 (12A)
HOME, Manchester
Monday 17 - Thursday 20 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...Some Nights I Feel Like Walking (18)
HOME, Manchester
Monday 17 November 2025
Teenager Zion runs away from home and meets a group of street hustlers at a Manila bus terminal. The group take Zion under their wing ? until a shocking incident compels them all to leave the city, and take a journey into the past. In Some ...The Choral (12A)
HOME, Manchester
Monday 17 - Thursday 20 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 Mastermind (12A)
HOME, Manchester
Monday 17 - Thursday 20 November 2025
1970s America has witnessed a generational chasm and a society torn apart by Vietnam. But JB Mooney, an unemployed carpenter, is oblivious to these cultural changes as he bumbles towards a major art heist. Kelly Reichardt?s (First Cow) smar...Train Dreams (12A)
HOME, Manchester
Monday 17 - Wednesday 19 November 2025
Based on the beloved novella by Denis Johnson, Train Dreams is the moving portrait of Robert Grainier, whose life unfolds during an era of unprecedented change in early 20th-century America. Orphaned at a young age, Robert grows into adulth...Game (15) + Q&A
HOME, Manchester
Tuesday 18 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...Roots in the Sky
HOME, Manchester
Tuesday 18 November 2025 - Monday 16 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, ...Of Time and the City (12A) + Q&A
HOME, Manchester
Wednesday 19 November 2025
Director Terence Davies displays his rare sensitivity for the telling image, the haunting melody and the spoken word in this unique documentary portrait of his home city, Liverpool. Combining Davies? own witty, literate narration with archi...Census
Theatre 2
Thursday 20 - Saturday 22 November 2025
Award-winning duo Malandra Jacks introduce you to what happens when a working-class community tells its own story.A bus ride. A bingo card. A memory you didn't know you shared. This is our neighbourhood, not the one in the media, but the on...An Audience with Sir Phil Redmond
Cinemas
Thursday 20 November 2025
Join the creator of Grange Hill, Brookside and Hollyoaks for what promises to be a fascinating evening, as Phil hosts a screening of the very first episode of Channel 4's Brookside, originally transmitted on 2nd November 1982. Phil will b...Wicked (PG) + Wicked: For Good (PG)
Cinemas
Thursday 20 November 2025
Experience the epic conclusion to a global cultural phenomenon with a special double bill presenting Wicked alongside Wicked For Good. Wicked, the untold story of the witches of Oz, stars Emmy, Grammy and Tony winning powerhouse Cynthia ...Pillion (18)
HOME, Manchester
Thursday 20 November 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...Wicked: For Good (PG)
Cinemas
Friday 21 - Sunday 23 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...Bel Ami (15)
HOME, Manchester
Saturday 22 November 2025
A sleepy town in China. A middle-aged man is unwilling to endure a stagnant existence ? so, upon experiencing true love, he decides to come out of the closet. Meanwhile, a lesbian couple go in search of a gay man, in order to get married an...The Deep Blue Sea (12A) + intro
HOME, Manchester
Sunday 23 November 2025
Hester Collyer leads a privileged life in 1950s London as the beautiful wife of high court judge Sir William Collyer. To the shock of those around her, she walks out on her marriage to move in with young ex-RAF pilot, Freddie Page. But her ...Mazel tov (15)
HOME, Manchester
Monday 24 November 2025
In this funny and warm-hearted, Argentinian family comedy, prodigal son, Dario Roitman, returns to Buenos Aires for the wedding and batmitzvah of the decade. Just a few hours before his flight, his father unexpectedly passes away, and the R...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...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...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...Freaky Friday
Theatre 1
Thursday 27 November 2025 - Sunday 11 January 2026
Directed by Andy Fickman Book by Bridget Carpenter Music by Tom Kitt Lyrics by Brian Yorkey 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 genera...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...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...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...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...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 ...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...A Christmas Carol
HOME, Manchester
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...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.
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