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
Tim Key
Theatre 1
Sunday 8 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
Theatre 2
Sunday 8 March 2026
Interactive, family storytelling with puppetry and play. 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...Gabriel Kidd: I found the giant and he was dead
Gallery
Sunday 8 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 ...If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (15)
Cinemas
Sunday 8 - Thursday 12 March 2026
With her life crashing down around her, Linda attempts to navigate her child's mysterious illness, her absent husband, a missing person, and an increasingly hostile relationship with her therapist. Sharply funny and deeply resonant, If I Ha...Sirât (15)
Cinemas
Sunday 8 - Thursday 12 March 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,...Wasteman (18)
Cinemas
Sunday 8 - Thursday 12 March 2026
The directorial debut of Cal McMau, Wasteman tells the incredible story of how a convict's chances for early prison release come under threat from his ruthlessly violent new cellmate in this uncompromisingly brutal British thriller. Â Afte...Royal Ballet/ Giselle (CTBA)
HOME, Manchester
Sunday 8 March 2026
The peasant girl Giselle has fallen in love with Albrecht. When she discovers that he is actually a nobleman promised to another, she kills herself in despair. Her spirit joins the Wilis: the vengeful ghosts of women hell-bent on killing an...The Secret Agent (15)
HOME, Manchester
Sunday 8 - Thursday 12 March 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...The Testament of Ann Lee (15)
HOME, Manchester
Sunday 8 - Thursday 12 March 2026
From award-winning writer-director Mona Fastvold comes the extraordinary true legend of Ann Lee, founder of the devotional sect known as the Shakers. Academy Award nominee Amanda Seyfried stars as the Shaker's irrepressible leader, who prea...Nicola Ellis: Exercises in Knowing
HOME, Manchester
Sunday 8 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...Royal Ballet/ Giselle (PG)
HOME, Manchester
Sunday 8 March 2026
The peasant girl Giselle has fallen in love with Albrecht. When she discovers that he is actually a nobleman promised to another, she kills herself in despair. Her spirit joins the Wilis: the vengeful ghosts of women hell-bent on killing an...Sound of Falling (18)
HOME, Manchester
Sunday 8 - Thursday 12 March 2026
Four girls, Alma (1910s), Erika (1940s), Angelika (1980s), and Lenka (2020s) each spend their youth on the same farm in northern Germany. As the home evolves over a century, echoes of the past linger in its walls. Though separated by time, ...The Bride (15)
HOME, Manchester
Sunday 8 - Thursday 12 March 2026
A lonely Frankenstein travels to 1930s Chicago to seek the aid of ahead-of-her-time physician and researcher, Dr. Euphronius, in creating a companion for himself. ?The two reinvigorate a murdered young woman named Ida and the Bride is born....We Are Parable presents: Set It Off (18)
Cinemas
Monday 9 March 2026
After being fired from her job as a bank teller, Frankie begins working at a janitorial service with her friends Tisean, a single mother; Cleo, a boisterous lesbian; and Stoney, who is dealing with the recent death of her brother. The women...Teki Cometh (18)
HOME, Manchester
Tuesday 10 March 2026
Gisuke is a retired French literature professor. Since his wife?s death, he has lived quietly alone in a traditional Japanese house. He leads a regular life and enjoys occasional company from former students, all the while considering endin...
Othello (12A)
HOME, Manchester
Wednesday 11 - Sunday 15 March 2026
Shakespeare?s Othello rages to life like never before in a compelling new production starring David Harewood OBE, Toby Jones OBE and Caitlin FitzGerald. Directed by Tony Award-winner Tom Morris OBE with music by PJ Harvey, this epic story o...Eastbenders
Theatre 2
Thursday 12 - Sunday 15 March 2026
We're coming 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 the theatre into that ...The Marbles (12A)
HOME, Manchester
Thursday 12 March 2026
The Marbles is a compelling new documentary examining one of history's most controversial cultural disputes - the removal of the Parthenon Marbles, and the ongoing campaign to return them to Greece. From imperial acquisition to modern-day a...Playreading Sessions
Event Space
Saturday 14 March - 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...Resurrection (15)
HOME, Manchester
Saturday 14 March 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...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 Known for its off-the-wall humour, unforgettable characters, and genre-bending chaos, the Dungeon Crawl...Another World (15)
Cinemas
Wednesday 18 March 2026
After death and before reincarnation, the souls of the deceased pass through a fantastical realm known as Another World. Gudo is a spirit tasked with guiding these transient souls to their next life. Â While helping a young girl named Yuri...Crime and Punishment
Theatre 2
Thursday 19 - 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. Â What drives a young man to murder? Th...Soul To Soul (U)
HOME, Manchester
Thursday 19 March 2026
In 1971, a group of leading African American soul, jazz, and gospel artists embarked on a journey that would change the lives of everyone involved. Artists such as Ike & Tina Turner, Wilson Pickett and the Staples Singers travelled from New...Mr Wilson's Second Liners: Blowout 2026
HOME, Manchester
Thursday 19 - 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....Spring 2026: Public Gallery Tour with Clarissa Corfe
HOME, Manchester
Saturday 21 March 2026
Public Gallery Tour with Clarissa CorfeJoin HOME's creative producer and Curator, Clarissa Corfe for a tour of our new solo exhibitions ? I found the giant and he was dead by Gabriel Kidd, and Exercises in Knowing by Nicola Ellis.?About the...Long Day's Journey Into Night (12A)
HOME, Manchester
Sunday 22 March 2026
Oozing atmosphere with its noirish neon glow, Long Day?s Journey Into Night chronicles the return of Luo Hongwu to Kaili, the hometown he fled many years before. Back for his father's funeral, Luo recalls the death of an old friend, Wildcat...Spring 2026: Audio Description Gallery Tour with Anne Hornsby of Mind's Eye
HOME, Manchester
Monday 23 March 2026
An Audio Described tour of our Spring 2026 exhibitionsJoin us at HOME for an exclusive Audio Description tour of our new solo exhibitions ? I found the giant and he was dead by Gabriel Kidd, and Exercises in Knowing by Nicola Ellis. Present...Guardian Documentaries present: Legacies of Enslavement (18)
HOME, Manchester
Wednesday 25 March 2026
Join HOME and Guardian Documentaries for a special screening of two short films and a panel discussion exploring legacies of enslavement in the US, the UK and the small South Atlantic island of St Helena.?Through compelling personal perspec...Bog Witch
Theatre 1
Thursday 26 - 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
Thursday 26 - 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
Friday 27 March - 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 ...BFI Flare presents: Pink Narcissus (18)
Cinemas
Friday 27 March 2026
The work of artist and photographer James Bidgood, Pink Narcissus is a breathtaking and outrageous erotic visual poem focusing on the daydreams of a beautiful male sex-worker who, from the seclusion of his ultra-kitsch apartment, conceives ...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...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...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...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...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 - Tuesday 28 April 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...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 ...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...
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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Most Popular Shows and Events at HOME, Manchester
