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
Gabriel Kidd: I found the giant and he was dead
Gallery
Tuesday 14 April - 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 ...Mothers Who Make
Event Space
Tuesday 14 April - Thursday 2 July 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...Amélie - 25th Anniversary (15)
HOME, Manchester
Tuesday 14 - Thursday 16 April 2026
23-year-old Am?lie is lonely. After an isolating childhood, she moves to Paris and becomes a waitress at the Caf? des Deux Moulins, a bar restaurant filled with a colourful cast of diners and employees. One night, Am?lie happens across a bo...California Schemin' (15)
HOME, Manchester
Tuesday 14 - Thursday 16 April 2026
Based on the outrageous true story, California Schemin? follows two aspiring Scottish MCs who devise an audacious scheme to achieve their dream of a record deal, by posing as Californian hip hop artists. As fame beckons and the lies pile up...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...Family Film/ Looney Tunes: The Day the Earth Blew Up (PG)
HOME, Manchester
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...Father Mother Sister Brother (15)
HOME, Manchester
Tuesday 14 - Thursday 16 April 2026
Father Mother Sister Brother is the eagerly-awaited new film from Jim Jarmusch. Funny, tender and astutely observed, this is an intimate exploration of the universal intricacies of family dynamics. Told in the form of a triptych divided int...Nicola Ellis: Exercises in Knowing
HOME, Manchester
Tuesday 14 April - 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
Tuesday 14 - Thursday 16 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...The Drama (15)
HOME, Manchester
Tuesday 14 - Thursday 16 April 2026
A happily engaged couple is put to the test when an unexpected turn sends their wedding week off the rails.?This film contains flickering or flashing lights that may affect those with photosensitive epilepsy....The Magic Faraway Tree (U)
HOME, Manchester
Tuesday 14 - Thursday 16 April 2026
Based on Enid Blyton?s beloved The Faraway Tree series of novels for children, The Magic Faraway Tree follows Polly and Tim and their children Beth, Joe and Fran ? a modern family who find themselves forced to relocate to the remote English...The Stranger (15)
HOME, Manchester
Tuesday 14 - Tuesday 21 April 2026
Adapting Albert Camus? classic existentialist novel, Fran?ois Ozon delivers an enigmatic portrait of disaffection amid the tensions of 1930s French-colonised Algeria. Algiers, 1938. An unassuming man in his early thirties, Meursault attends...Two Prosecutors (12A)
HOME, Manchester
Tuesday 14 - Thursday 16 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...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 - Sunday 17 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 (15)
Cinemas
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)....Bluey at the Cinema: Playdates with Friends (U)
HOME, Manchester
Friday 17 - 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...Departures (18) + 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...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
Wildfire RoadA story about a generation whose future has been hijacked. ?The whole play takes place on a flight from London to Tokyo. ?There?s a hijacker on board and the flight is re-directed to Siberia and in the process saving the lives ...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 - Saturday 25 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
Macbeth,Macbeth,Macbeth,Macbeth,Macbeth. When an alarm is deliberately set off during their GCSE drama exam, a group of students find themselves in detention. As they struggle to navigate the seemingly endless tasks they?ve been set as puni...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
Fishville??The story starts when a young man named Jared takes to the sea in swimming gear but never starts swimming? His death, which follows on from the unexpected sale of his parents? house, throws the community into chaos. When the daug...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...Creative Tiny Humans
Creativity Corner
Friday 24 April 2026 - Friday 26 March 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 ...The Tale of The Loneliest Whale
Theatre 2
Saturday 25 April 2026
"I can hear someone out there. They're singing to me." Whale sings his heart out into the deep blue sea... but nobody sings back. Is he the only one like him in the whole ocean? Just when he's about to give up, a mysterious voice echoes t...
Man of Iron (18)
HOME, Manchester
Saturday 25 April 2026
The Palme d?Or-winning follow-up to Man of Marble (1976), Man of Iron sees Winkel, a Communist-friendly radio journalist, charged with finding compromising information about a Solidarity opposition leader. But in witnessing protesting worke...Royal Opera/ The Magic Flute (CTBA)
HOME, Manchester
Sunday 26 April 2026
Princess Pamina has been captured. Her mother, the Queen of the Night, tasks the young Prince Tamino with her daughter?s rescue. But when Tamino and his friendly sidekick, Papageno, embark on their adventure, they soon learn that when it co...My Feral Heart (10 Year Anniversary) (12A)
HOME, Manchester
Monday 27 April 2026
Luke, an independent man who has Down?s Syndrome, lives with his mother. When she dies, he loses his independence and moves into a residential home. Determined to take control of his life, Luke begins to foster new relationships within the ...Bryony Gordon
Theatre 1
Tuesday 28 April 2026
An evening with Sunday Times bestselling author, journalist and mental health campaigner Bryony Gordon as she discusses her debut novel People Pleaser - a fiercely funny, instantly relatable, and utterly feel-good novel about the pressures...The Corinthians: We Were The Champions (PG)
Cinemas
Tuesday 28 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...The Good Manners (18) + Q&A
HOME, Manchester
Wednesday 29 April 2026
In a village in Valencia during the post-war period, Ana tries to move forward with her family ? but the Civil War has left a deep wound in all of them, especially in her brother-in-law, Antonio. Ana attempts to heal that wound with stews, ...Baby & Carer/ Rebuilding (PG)
HOME, Manchester
Thursday 30 April 2026
Rebuilding follows Dusty, a stoic cowboy whose ranch was destroyed in a devastating wildfire. Now based in a trailer community on a government-run campsite, Dusty finds solace with his new neighbours, quietly reassembles his life, and stren...Playreading Sessions
Event Space
Friday 1 May - 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...London Boys (18)
HOME, Manchester
Wednesday 6 May 2026
Behind the loud and intimidating motorcycles of the "Bangladeshi Bad Boys" is a group of second-generation Bangladeshi men who find in motorcycles a sense of identity and a way to overcome racism. Co-directed by Arun Nangla and Laura Pavone...Troubled
Theatre 2
Thursday 7 - Saturday 9 May 2026
It's 1993, Mum won't let Alice go to Funderland because Belfast is burning. 'How about Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves and Chinese chicken balls instead?' Fast forward to 2023, where Alice meets Tim, falling in love (finally) but can she esca...Highlander - 40th Anniversary (15)
HOME, Manchester
Thursday 7 May 2026
There can be only one! Highlander, an immortal cult favourite, returns to the big screen to celebrate its 40th anniversary. They are an immortal race of warriors. A unique breed of men who can die only by being decapitated with a sword. Fat...Panel Discussion/ Exercises in knowing Incidentally
HOME, Manchester
Saturday 9 May 2026
A presentation from the artistJoin artist Nicola Ellis for a presentation on her main gallery solo exhibition Exercises in Knowing, a work that explores our relationship with industry, materials, and labour, highlighting the role of sensory...D is for Distance (12A)
HOME, Manchester
Sunday 10 May 2026
Louis Petit suffers a debilitating form of epilepsy that has shattered his young life and erased his memory of childhood. Louis? parents, filmmakers Christopher Petit and Emma Matthews, tell Louis? ongoing story through an extraordinary arc...The Cars That Ate Paris (15)
HOME, Manchester
Monday 11 May 2026
While travelling Australia in search of work, two brothers collide with an oncoming car. The sole survivor is well looked after by the inhabitants of nearby Paris, but is disturbed by their strange behaviour and the frequency of road accide...Kiell Smith-Bynoe & Friends - Kool Story Bro
Theatre 1
Wednesday 13 May 2026
Star of Taskmaster, Ghosts and The Great British Sewing Bee, Kiell Smith-Bynoe is heading out on tour with an all-star cast of comedians and some very special guests to turn stories from the audience into completely improvised comedy scenes...
Being Ola (PG)
HOME, Manchester
Wednesday 13 May 2026
30-year-old Ola lives in the small Norwegian village of Vidar?sen, where the 150 residents are a mix of people with and without disabilities. In the village the residents aim to live life at a slower pace and in harmony with nature. Their c...Live performance activation by Willow Swan and Ellis Berwick
HOME, Manchester
Thursday 14 May 2026
A live performance in the HOME Main GalleryLive performance with reconfigured organ pipes creating a dialogue with Gabriel Kidd?s solo exhibition I found the giant and he was dead. Willow Swan and Ellis Berwick activate the exhibition with ...Wake in Fright (18)
HOME, Manchester
Friday 15 - Tuesday 19 May 2026
Raw and brutal in its depiction of Outback country drinking culture in the 1970s, Wake in Fright is an uncompromising landmark of Australian cinema. John Grant, a bored schoolteacher working in the remote outback, stops overnight in the fro...Algorithm Party (CTBA) + Q&A
HOME, Manchester
Monday 18 May 2026
In Algorithm Party, spoken word artist ?Roy? (PJ Smith) reimagines his debut publication of the same name for the big screen. Algorithm Party is an authentic, forthright glimpse into working class life, told with a blunt honesty with humour...Exhibition on Screen: Frida Kahlo (12A)
HOME, Manchester
Tuesday 19 - Sunday 24 May 2026
Frida Kahlo is a phenomenon. She is arguably the world?s favourite female artist - beloved by young and old. Exhibition on Screen?s award-winning film is back in cinemas by popular demand with an exciting new addition from the curators of t...Best of British: Jewish Culture Month (18)
HOME, Manchester
Wednesday 20 May 2026
An entertaining and thought-provoking evening of some of the most outstanding British-Jewish short films commissioned by UK Jewish Film over the first quarter of the 21st century.?Screening in this programme:Beshert? (Dir. Lewis Rose) - Whe...The Plumber (15)
HOME, Manchester
Thursday 21 May 2026
Spending most of her days alone at home while her husband is away at work, a young anthropology student is troubled by repeated visits from her building?s gregarious repairman. Class conflict is fought through polite insults, perverse mind ...The Singing Mermaid
Theatre 1
Saturday 23 - Sunday 24 May 2026
3 - 8 year olds and their families will love this adaptation of Julia Donaldson and Lydia Monk's hugely popular book, brought to life with beautiful puppetry and performance and music and songs by Barb Jungr (We're All Going On A Bear Hunt)...IN THE BRAIN
HOME, Manchester
Wednesday 27 - Saturday 30 May 2026
Hofesh Shechter?s exhilarating new, full-length work for Shechter II, IN THE BRAIN, is a raw,?electrifying dive into movement, rhythm, and collective energy. A pulsing, urgent journey into?the depths of our consciousness?where stories disso...Titicut Follies (18)
HOME, Manchester
Wednesday 27 May 2026
Frederick Wiseman?s landmark debut film takes us inside a Massachusetts institution for the criminally insane, unflinchingly documenting the treatment and mistreatment of inmates. Wiseman?s unique ability to observe and sculpt reality using...National Theatre Live - Playboy of the Western World
HOME, Manchester
Thursday 28 - Saturday 30 May 2026
Nicola Coughlan (Bridgerton) joins Eanna Hardwicke (The Sixth Commandment) and Siobhan McSweeney (Derry Girls) in John Millington Synge's riveting play of youth and self-discovery. Pegeen Flaherty's life is turned upside down when a young m...Nation
HOME, Manchester
Thursday 28 - Saturday 30 May 2026
Following smash-hit we were promised honey! YESYESNONO return to HOME with another storytelling hit from the Edinburgh Fringe 2024. It?s about a butcher and a baker and a farmer and a dog. It?s about a stranger knocking at the door. It?s ab...Cult/ Cronos (15)
HOME, Manchester
Friday 29 May 2026
Guillermo del Toro?s Cannes prize-winning directorial debut offers a unique take on the classic vampire story. When antiques dealer Jes?s Gris discovers an ancient artefact in the form of a golden mechanical scarab, he is unaware of the pow...Malory Towers
Theatre 1
Tuesday 2 - Saturday 13 June 2026
Darrell Rivers is starting school with an eager mind and fierce heart. Unfortunately, she also has a quick temper! Can she learn to tolerate the infuriating Gwendoline Lacey, or value the kind-hearted Sally Hope? Can she save the school pla...Madfabulous (12A)
HOME, Manchester
Monday 8 June 2026
When the flamboyant Henry Paget arrives in 1890's North Wales to claim his aristocratic inheritance, his theatrical flair and defiant eccentricities send shockwaves through the upper-class elite, much to the amusement of the local townspeop...
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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