What's on in Manchester in November
Miss Saigon
Monday 10 - Saturday 15 November 2025
The soaring musical score features the hits songs; The Heat is On in Saigon, The Movie in My Mind, Last Night of the World and The American Dream.
Michael Harrison in association with Cameron Mackintosh is delighted to present a new tourin...
TINA - The Tina Turner Musical
Tuesday 25 November 2025 - Saturday 3 January 2026
West End mega-hit TINA - The Tina Turner Musical announces its first ever UK & Ireland tour. From humble beginnings in Nutbush, Tennessee, to her triumphant transformation into a multi award-winning global superstar, Tina Turner didn't just...
Matthew Bourne's The Red Shoes
Tuesday 25 - Saturday 29 November 2025
A timeless fairytale and Academy Award-winning movie, The Red Shoes has captivated audiences and inspired generations of dancers with its powerful tale of obsession, possession and one girl's dream to be the greatest dancer in the world. Vi...
Top Hat - The Musical
Tuesday 31 March - Saturday 4 Apr 2026
You're invited to the musical equivalent of the finest vintage champagne.
Based on RKO's classic 1935 Motion Picture which starred Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, Matthew White & Howard Jacques' stage adaptation's West End premiere won th...
Blood Brothers
Tuesday 18 - Saturday 22 November 2025
Written by Willy Russell, the legendary Blood Brothers tells the captivating and moving tale of twins who, separated at birth, grow up on opposite sides of the tracks, only to meet again with fateful consequences.
The superb score includes...
Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein - The Musical
Sunday 9 - Sunday 30 November 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...
Singin' In The Rain
Saturday 29 November 2025 - Sunday 18 January 2026
A timeless masterpiece, and perhaps one of the greatest musicals ever made - a must-see show for Christmas 2025.
A charismatic, tap-dancing extravaganza SINGIN' IN THE RAIN is the much-loved story of the highs and lows of Hollywood as a ra...
Victoria Wood's Acorn Antiques the Musical
Sunday 16 November 2025
From the genius of Victoria Wood and based on the iconic sketch from her weekly television show, Victoria Wood As Seen on TV, Hope Mill Theatre bring Acorn Antiques the Musical back to the stage for One Night Only!Come along to Manchesterfo...
English National Ballet - The Sleeping Beauty
Wednesday 19 - Saturday 22 November 2025
For wonder and enchantment, look no further than this classic fairy tale ballet: Kenneth MacMillan's The Sleeping Beauty will leave you spellbound. Experience all that is grand, gleaming and gorgeous with English National Ballet in this stu...
The Talented Mr Ripley
Monday 17 - Saturday 22 November 2025
"I never wanted to murder anyone. It was necessary."
Step into a world of deception, desire, and deadly ambition. How far would you go to become someone else?
Tom Ripley is a nobody - scraping by in New York, forging signatures, telling l...
Freaky Friday
Thursday 27 November - Wednesday 31 Dec 2025
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 gene...
Opera North - La bohème
Wednesday 12 - Saturday 15 November 2025
From Paris with love comes a tale of friendship and romance that will make you laugh and cry in equal measure.
When struggling poet Rodolfo meets Mimì, a quiet seamstress who lives upstairs, it's love at first sight. But life isn't ...
Frantic Assembly - Lost Atoms
Tuesday 11 - Saturday 15 November 2025
Following sell out tours of Othello and Metamorphosis contemporary theatre company Frantic Assembly returns with a brand-new play for its 30th Anniversary year, written by Anna Jordan (Succession, Killing Eve, The Unreturning, Yen).
Lost ...
Sherlock Holmes and the Hunt for Moriarty
Wednesday 1 - Saturday 4 April 2026
“When you have one of the first brains of Europe up against you, and all the powers of darkness at his back, there are infinite possibilities”
London, 1901. As the British Empire wages war in the name of a Queen whose health is...
A Christmas Carol
Thursday 13 November 2025 - Saturday 10 January 2026
A joyful stage adaptation of the festive classic
Whilst Christmas cheer and goodwill thrive across Victorian England, tight-fisted Ebenezer Scrooge goes to bed on Christmas Eve with no compassion or love in his heart. However, that night ...
Cinderella (SNP)
Friday 21 November - Wednesday 31 Dec 2025
This Christmas, Shakespeare North Playhouse bring you the most popular fairytale of them all, a spellbinding new production of Cinderella.
Tia Larsen takes the title role in the fairytale favourite with a very special Prescot twist in a ca...
Believe! The Polar Express Experience
Friday 14 November - Wednesday 31 Dec 2025
Believe! The Polar Express Experience is a brand new, truly magical, multi-room immersive walkthrough experience that brings the enchanting world of the beloved movie to life in a whole new way.
Step into the Hero Boy's house where you be ...
Gladiators Live
Saturday 22 - Sunday 23 November 2025
Get ready for the ultimate action-packed experience, as Gladiators Live Tour makes its global debut in arenas across the UK for the very first time in 2025.
Featuring the new stars of the UK TV series Gladiators, the live show will be a sp...
