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
Bog Witch
Theatre 1
Saturday 28 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 a...A Grain of Sand
Theatre 2
Saturday 28 - Sunday 29 March 2026
Adapted from A Million Kites: Testimonies and Poems from the Children of Gaza by Leila Boukarim and Asaf Luzon Renad, a young Gazan girl, embarks on a dangerous journey. Carrying only the echoes of her grandmother's tales and the spark of h...Creative Tiny Humans
Creativity Corner
Saturday 28 March 2026 - Saturday 27 February 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 ...Gabriel Kidd: I found the giant and he was dead
Gallery
Saturday 28 March - 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 ...Sirât (15)
Cinemas
Saturday 28 March - Thursday 2 April 2026
A father and his son arrive at a rave deep in the mountains of southern Morocco. They're searching for Mar - daughter and sister - who vanished months ago at one of these endless, sleepless parties. Surrounded by electronic music and a raw,...Resurrection (15)
HOME, Manchester
Saturday 28 March - Thursday 2 April 2026
With his senses-ravishing third feature, visionary director Bi Gan takes his deepest plunge yet into the realm of pure cinematic dreamscape. In a world where humans have forsaken dreams in exchange for immortality, a dreaming monster embark...The Secret Agent (15)
HOME, Manchester
Saturday 28 March - Thursday 2 April 2026
A university professor travels from S?o Paulo to the seaside city of Recife during Carnival week, hoping to reunite with his son. He soon finds out he?s been tailed and spied on by neighbours in his new refuge, leaving him no possible escap...Apnas (15)
HOME, Manchester
Saturday 28 March - Thursday 2 April 2026
Set against the gritty streets of Manchester, Apnas follows a young British Asian man who is pulled into a dangerous criminal world by his notorious uncle, only to find himself in a brutal conflict with his own cousin. Family, money, faith....Arco (PG) Dubbed
HOME, Manchester
Saturday 28 March - Thursday 2 April 2026
Futures collide in this time-twisting thriller when an innocent and adventurous boy from the distant future crash-lands in the near future - not too far away from us. Trapped in 2075, he meets an inquisitive and astute girl - but will this ...Arco (PG) Subtitled
HOME, Manchester
Saturday 28 March - Wednesday 1 April 2026
Futures collide in this time-twisting thriller when an innocent and adventurous boy from the distant future crash-lands in the near future - not too far away from us. Trapped in 2075, he meets an inquisitive and astute girl - but will this ...Dead Man's Wire (15)
HOME, Manchester
Saturday 28 March - Thursday 2 April 2026
The morning of February 8, 1977, Tony Kiritsis entered the office of Richard O. Hall, president of the Meridian Mortgage Company, and took him hostage with a sawed-off 12-gauge shotgun wired with a ?dead man?s wire? from the trigger to Hall...DJ Ahmet (PG)
HOME, Manchester
Saturday 28 March - Thursday 2 April 2026
Ahmet, a 15-year-old boy from a remote Y?r?k village in North Macedonia, finds refuge in music while navigating his father?s expectations, a conservative community, and his first experience with love ? a girl already promised to someone els...La Grazia (12A)
HOME, Manchester
Saturday 28 March - Thursday 2 April 2026
As his tenure as President of Italy nears its end, Mariano De Santis faces wrenching decisions - both political and deeply personal. Amid these moral quandaries, he must confront his own conscience and seek guidance from those closest to hi...Nicola Ellis: Exercises in Knowing
HOME, Manchester
Saturday 28 March - 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...Orwell: 2+2=5 (15)
HOME, Manchester
Saturday 28 March - Thursday 2 April 2026
George Orwell was one of the most visionary authors of the 20th Century, whose novels 1984 and Animal Farm foretold a chilling, all-too-believable authoritarian future. ?Acclaimed director Raoul Peck (Academy Award-nominated I Am Not Your N....png)
Spring 2026: BSL Gallery Tour with Martin Glover (No Spoken English)
HOME, Manchester
Saturday 28 March 2026
A tour designed for deaf and hard-of-hearing BSL usersJoin us at HOME for an exclusive BSL tour of Nicola Ellis: Exercises in Knowing and Gabriel Kidd: I found the giant and he was deadPresented by art guide Martin Glover, this is a BSL tou...The Straight Story - 4K Restoration (PG)
HOME, Manchester
Saturday 28 March - Wednesday 1 April 2026
Alvin's eyesight is poor, he has little money and he can't stand the thought of being driven anywhere. So when he discovers his estranged brother has suffered a stroke he decides to make the journey by the only means of transport available ...Two Prosecutors (12A)
HOME, Manchester
Saturday 28 March - Thursday 2 April 2026
Soviet Union, 1937. Thousands of letters from detainees falsely accused by the regime are burned in a prison cell. Against all odds, one of them reaches its destination, upon the desk of the newly appointed local prosecutor, Alexander Korny...Oska Bright 2026: Best of the Fest (CTBA)
HOME, Manchester
Sunday 29 March 2026
Oska Bright Film Festival is the world?s leading festival for films made by or featuring learning disabled or autistic people. Supported by the BFI and Arts Council England, they produce the BAFTA and BIFA-qualifying festival, deliver acces...Oska Bright 2026: Best of the Fest (15)
HOME, Manchester
Sunday 29 March 2026
Oska Bright Film Festival is the world?s leading festival for films made by or featuring learning disabled or autistic people. Supported by the BFI and Arts Council England, they produce the BAFTA and BIFA-qualifying festival, deliver acces...Redoubt (12A)
HOME, Manchester
Sunday 29 March - Thursday 2 April 2026
At the peak of the Cold War, farm worker Karl-G?ran Persson starts fortifying his house. ?He gathers scrap-metal and casts it into the walls to build a fortress meant to protect him and his neighbours. ?His efforts are met with puzzlement b...Redoubt (CTBA)
HOME, Manchester
Sunday 29 March - Thursday 2 April 2026
At the peak of the Cold War, farm worker Karl-G?ran Persson starts fortifying his house. ?He gathers scrap-metal and casts it into the walls to build a fortress meant to protect him and his neighbours. ?His efforts are met with puzzlement b...The Last Blossom (15)
HOME, Manchester
Sunday 29 March 2026
Minoru, serving a life sentence, awaits a lonely death in his prison cell. The only real sign of life in the cell is a potted balsam flower - housenka in Japanese. One night, Minoru begins sharing his life story with the flower that, improb...We Are Parable presents: The Watermelon Woman (15)
Cinemas
Monday 30 March 2026
Cheryl, an aspiring Black lesbian filmmaker working in a video store, is making a documentary about a black actress from the 1930s who was typecast, credited only as "the watermelon woman". While uncovering the true story of the actress' li...We Are Parable presents: The Watermelon Woman (15) + event
HOME, Manchester
Monday 30 March 2026
Cheryl, an aspiring Black lesbian filmmaker working in a video store, is making a documentary about a black actress from the 1930s who was typecast, credited only as ?the watermelon woman?. While uncovering the true story of the actress? li...We Are Parable presents: The Watermelon Woman (15) + Panel Discussion and Social
HOME, Manchester
Monday 30 March 2026
Cheryl, an aspiring Black lesbian filmmaker working in a video store, is making a documentary about a black actress from the 1930s who was typecast, credited only as ?the watermelon woman?. While uncovering the true story of the actress? li...Filmed Up
Cinemas
Tuesday 31 March 2026
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...Filmed Up Mar 2026 (18)
HOME, Manchester
Tuesday 31 March 2026
From grassroots guerrilla filmmakers to established productions companies, the film community is thriving in our region. Join us for an evening screening and discover a wide variety of short films from filmmaker based in the region and stay...Underland (12A) + recorded Q&A
HOME, Manchester
Tuesday 31 March - Tuesday 7 April 2026
We know so little of the world beneath our feet. To most it is a place only of fear and darkness, though to a brave few it is one of knowledge and wonder to be found nowhere else. Based on the bestselling book by Robert Macfarlane, Underlan...Twinless (15)
HOME, Manchester
Wednesday 1 - Saturday 11 April 2026
After meeting in a twin bereavement support group, Roman and Dennis develop an unlikely bromance as they both search for solace and an identity without their better halves. They soon become inseparable, but old wounds reopen that will have ...
Alasdair Beckett-King
Theatre 1
Thursday 2 - 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
Theatre 2
Thursday 2 - 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 'hy...The Corinthians: We Were The Champions (PG)
Cinemas
Thursday 2 April - 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...Tales from Acorn Wood
Theatre 1
Friday 3 - Monday 6 April 2026
Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler's beloved Tales from 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 clo...Playreading Sessions
Event Space
Friday 3 April - 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...Broken English (15)
HOME, Manchester
Saturday 4 April 2026
A survivor and true original, Marianne Faithfull spent over six decades defying expectations. Made with her full involvement, Broken English is an intimate portrait of a fractured yet unbreakable life shaped by fame, creativity, and scrutin...Family Film/ Looney Tunes: The Day the Earth Blew Up (PG)
HOME, Manchester
Saturday 4 - Tuesday 14 April 2026
That?s not all, folks! Porky Pig and Daffy Duck make a hilarious return to the big screen in the first-ever fully animated Looney Tunes feature film created for cinemas. The dynamic duo become Earth's only hope when their antics at the loca...Movement Makes Story: Devising from a physical practice
HOME, Manchester
Saturday 4 April 2026
Sometimes you only need simple gestures or patterns to tell a story. In this workshop, Christina Deinsberger will lead physical exercises to explore a devising practice, connecting the individual body to the collective to create an image, e...Royal Opera/ Siegfried (CTBA)
HOME, Manchester
Sunday 5 April 2026
Raised by a dwarf and unaware of his true family origins, a young man embarks on an epic journey. Soon, destiny brings him face-to-face with a shattered sword, a fearsome dragon and the cursed ring it guards, and a Valkyrie forced into ench...Mothers Who Make
Event Space
Tuesday 7 April - Friday 4 December 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...Ashes and Diamonds (18)
HOME, Manchester
Wednesday 8 April 2026
In the last days of the Second World War, Maciek, a Polish resistance fighter, is tasked with the assassination of a Communist official. But when he meets Krystyna, he is offered a glimpse of a world beyond war and destruction, and question...Bluey at the Cinema: Playdates with Friends (U)
HOME, Manchester
Wednesday 8 - Friday 24 April 2026
Bluey at the Cinema: Playdates with Friends Collection is an hour of fun that features eight episodes from across the three beloved series of Bluey, each celebrating play and imagination with friends and family!The compilation showcases som...Dead Lover - in Stink-O-Vision (18)
Cinemas
Friday 10 April 2026
A cult favourite in the making, Dead Lover comes to HOME in awesome, aromatic Stink-O-Vision following its raucous festival run at Sundance, SXSW, Toronto and beyond. A lonely gravedigger, who stinks of corpses, finally meets her dream man ...IDOL WORSHIP - An Evening with Mink Stole & Peaches Christ
HOME, Manchester
Saturday 11 - 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...Man of Marble (U)
HOME, Manchester
Saturday 11 April 2026
In the 1970s, young filmmaker Agnieszka investigates the life of a 1950s bricklayer and worker?s hero. When she learns that the facts behind his story were suppressed, she has to decide whether to pursue the truth or not. Man of Marble is a...
Screen Cuba/ The Twelve Chairs (18)
HOME, Manchester
Sunday 12 April 2026
Before dying, a wealthy woman reveals that she has hidden the family jewels in the lining of one of the family?s old chairs ? part of a dining set of twelve which have been sold off individually after being confiscated by the Cuban Revoluti...Everybody to Kenmure Street (12A)
HOME, Manchester
Tuesday 14 - Saturday 18 April 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...Innocent Sorcerers (18)
HOME, Manchester
Wednesday 15 April 2026
Following his lauded war trilogy, Andrzej Wajda turned his camera on Poland?s socially modern but politically disengaged post-war generation. When hipster doctor Bazyli meets out-of-towner Pelagia in a nightclub, they spend a night in his f...Roy Claire Potter in conversation with Gabriel Kidd
HOME, Manchester
Wednesday 15 April - Friday 15 May 2026
In conversation with Gabriel KiddJoin Roy Claire Potter in conversation with solo artist Gabriel Kidd on the occasion or their solo exhibition at HOME, I found the giant and he was dead. They will discuss the themes explored in Kidd?s exhib...National Theatre Live - All My Sons
HOME, Manchester
Thursday 16 - Saturday 18 April 2026
Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad) and Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Hard Truths) feature in a five-star, triumphantly acclaimed new production of Arthur Miller's classic play All My Sons, from visionary director Ivo Van Hove (A View from the Bridge)....Departures (CTBA) + Q&A
HOME, Manchester
Friday 17 April 2026
It?s instant chemistry when Benji encounters Jake at an airport departures gate. Their on-going relationship unfolds through intimate trips to Amsterdam, revealing a complex power dynamic.?Inspired by true life events, what begins as thrill...Family Film/ Goat (PG)
HOME, Manchester
Saturday 18 April - Saturday 2 May 2026
Will, a small goat with big dreams,?gets a once-in-a-lifetime shot to join the pros and play?roarball???a high-intensity, full-contact sport?dominated by the fastest,?fiercest animals in the world.?Will?s new teammates aren?t thrilled about...Rose of Nevada (15) + Q&A
HOME, Manchester
Sunday 19 April 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 ...NT Connections 2026 Day 1
HOME, Manchester
Monday 20 April 2026
Day one of this year?s festival features The Smithills School Theatre Company?s version of Wildfire Road by Eve Leigh. Wildfire RoadA story about a generation whose future has been hijacked. ?The whole play takes place on a flight from Lond...The Shepherd and the Bear (15)
HOME, Manchester
Monday 20 - Thursday 30 April 2026
Set high in the majestic French Pyrenees, The Shepherd and the Bear explores a conflict provoked by the reintroduction of brown bears in the midst of a traditional shepherding community. The film follows an aging shepherd who struggles to f...I, Daniel Blake
Theatre 1
Tuesday 21 - 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 stor...NT Connections Festival 2026 Day 2
HOME, Manchester
Tuesday 21 April 2026
Day Two of this year?s festival features Calderdale Theatre School?s version of Macbeth,Macbeth,Macbeth,Macbeth,Macbeth by Kirsty Housley and Middleton Technology School?s version of The Animals by Sean Buckley. Macbeth,Macbeth,Macbeth,Macb...The Maids of Wilko (18)
HOME, Manchester
Tuesday 21 April 2026
After the death of a close friend and on the cusp of entering middle age, Wiktor returns to the family property of his youth. There, he reconnects a group of sisters with whom he spent an idyllic summer 15 years prior, discovering the exten...NT Connections 2026 Day 3
HOME, Manchester
Wednesday 22 April 2026
Day Three of this year?s festival features Oldham College?s version of Fishville By Afsaneh Gray and Love Theatre Jersey?s version of Wildfire Road By Eve Leigh. Fishville??The story starts when a young man named Jared takes to the sea in s...Our Land (12A) + Q&A
HOME, Manchester
Thursday 23 April 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...
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.
Please click here for more information on Access at Home and for contact details to the access team.
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Most Popular Shows and Events at HOME, Manchester
