What's on in Manchester in October
Fiddler on the Roof
Friday 24 October - Saturday 1 Nov 2025
A theatrical triumph, the Regent's Park Open Air Theatre's sold-out electrifying Fiddler on the Roof is going on tour. This is a rare opportunity to catch this critically acclaimed production from the powerhouse creative team directed by Jo...
Dancing at Lughnasa
Friday 24 October - Saturday 8 Nov 2025
“I want to dance, Kate. It's the festival of Lughnasa. I'm only thirty-five. I want to dance.”
Driven by an overwhelming desire, the five Mundy sisters dance. Together they twirl and spin, it is wild, passionate, reckless, and ...
Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein - The Musical
Friday 24 October - Sunday 30 Nov 2025
From the creators of the record-breaking Broadway sensation, The Producers, comes this monster musical comedy. The comedy genius, Mel Brooks, adapts his legendarily funny film into a brilliant stage creation - Young Frankenstein! Grandson o...
Hofesh Shechter - Theatre of Dreams
Friday 24 - Saturday 25 October 2025
Performed by the inimitable dancers of Hofesh Shechter Company, this thrilling new work delves deep into the world of fantasy and the subconscious, revealing fears, hopes, desires and a myriad of emotions that penetrates not onl...
Slava's Snow Show
Friday 24 - Sunday 26 October 2025
Slava's Snowshow promises a breath-taking multisensory delight in a joyous dream-like world which will touch both your heart and funny bone!The multi award-winning international sensation returns by popular demand. This truly unique theatri...
Gandeys Halloween Spooktacular
Friday 24 October - Sunday 2 Nov 2025
Something wickedly spectacular this way comes...!
Dare you enter the haunted Big Top? Gandeys Circus returns, bringing you a brand-new, spine-chilling, and action-packed Halloween Spooktacular-a legendary show filled with frights, delights...
The Smeds and The Smoos
Monday 27 October - Saturday 1 Nov 2025
Tall Stories presents The Smeds and the Smoos.
Soar into space with this exciting adaptation of the award-winning book by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler.
On a far off planet, Smeds and Smoos can't be friends. So when a young Smed...
Kidz Bop
Wednesday 29 October 2025
Make memories that will last a lifetime at the ultimate pop concert for kids, and their grown-ups too!
Sing and dance along as the KIDZ BOP Kids perform your favorite songs like “Espresso,” “greedy,” “...
Snake in the Grass
Friday 24 - Saturday 25 October 2025
A darkly comic thriller about family, secrets and manipulation.
Annabel returns home after the death of her cruel father. Reunited with her sister Miriam, the siblings bicker as buried truths resurface. Tensions grow when his former nurse...
The HandleBards - The Tempest
Friday 24 - Saturday 25 October 2025
This production of The Tempest is the first collaboration between Shakespeare North Playhouse and internationally renowned theatre company ran by cycling actors, The HandleBards, who carry all the necessary set, props & costume on the back ...
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Friday 24 October - Sunday 2 Nov 2025
Escape to a world of pure imagination with ROALD DAHL'S Charlie and The Chocolate Factory - The Musical.
The world-famous Willy Wonka is opening the gates to his mysterious factory… but only to a lucky few. Charlie Bucket, an i...
