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 Othello, August Wilson's FENCES, The Sorcerer's Apprentice, and The Littlest Yak. Theatre 2 will host Bright Places, Deepest Fears, Darkling, FAMEHUNGRY, A Christmas Carol, Mika and the Polar Bear. 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 Othello, August Wilson's FENCES, The Sorcerer's Apprentice, and The Littlest Yak. Theatre 2 will host Bright Places, Deepest Fears, Darkling, FAMEHUNGRY, A Christmas Carol, Mika and the Polar Bear. 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
Queer Up North presents: The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert (15)
HOME, Manchester
Friday 2 October 2026
Celebrate the launch of the Queer Up North digital archive with this one-off screening of The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert and the premiere of a new documentary short It?s Queer Up North: Saving the Show. The Adventures of ...Cotton Queen (15)
HOME, Manchester
Saturday 3 October 2026
In a cotton-farming village in Sudan, teenage Nafisa is raised on heroic tales of battling British colonisers told by her grandmother, the village matriarch Al-Sit. But when a young businessman arrives from abroad with a new development pl...Family Film/ Stitch Head (U)
HOME, Manchester
Saturday 3 - Saturday 17 October 2026
It?s monster time! In a castle laboratory high above a little town, a Mad Professor brings monstrous creations to (almost)-life? then promptly forgets all about them. So who looks after the castle? Who takes care of the monsters? Who teach...Quadrophenia (15)
HOME, Manchester
Sunday 4 October 2026
By day, Jimmy Cooper is a disaffected teenager trudging through the working week at a dead-end job in 1960s London. By night, he dons a sharp suit, pops pills and seeks thrills on his scooter alongside a gang of fellow Mods. With the bank ...UK Premiere/ Generation Trust (CTBA) + discussion
HOME, Manchester
Tuesday 6 October 2026
What happens when young people are trusted to lead?Generation Trust is an inspirational documentary that follows five Youth4Climate awardees, from Liberia, Uganda, Pakistan, Colombia, and Bolivia, as they tackle the climate crisis in their...LFF: Opening Night Film/ Elsinore (15)
HOME, Manchester
Wednesday 7 October 2026
Simon Stone?s film, written by Stephen Beresford (Pride), details Ian Charleson?s decision to step into the National Theatre?s production of Hamlet following Daniel Day-Lewis? departure. Scott, who so movingly portrayed a man wracked by gr...M (PG)
HOME, Manchester
Wednesday 7 October 2026
Peter Lorre?s first major screen role was also his greatest, as the compulsive child murderer on the run from both a desperate, frustrated police force and Berlin?s far more ruthless criminal underworld. Made two years before Hitler came t...Babylon (18)
Cinemas
Thursday 8 October 2026
Directed by Damien Chazelle, Babylon is an original epic set in 1920s Los Angeles led by Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie and Diego Calva, and with an ensemble cast including Jovan Adepo, Li Jun Li and Jean Smart. A tale of outsized ambition and...LFF: Wild Horse Nine (CTBA)
HOME, Manchester
Friday 9 October 2026
On the cusp of dictator Augusto Pinochet taking power in Chile, a trio of CIA agents snipe and bicker as they await the ?go? date on their part in yet another military coup. However, against the stunning natural beauty and mysterious ancie...LFF: I Love Boosters (18)
HOME, Manchester
Saturday 10 October 2026
Corvette is an aspiring fashion designer and leader of The Velvet Gang, a group of ?boosters? who rob clothes from fashion entrepreneur Christie Smith?s boutiques. But when Smith steals one of Corvette?s designs, The Velvet Gang are pushed...LFF: Ray Gunn (CTBA)
HOME, Manchester
Saturday 10 October 2026
In an alternate 1939, in the giant futuristic city of Metropia ? a corrupt world where aliens are the dominant species ? down-trodden PI Ray Gunn investigates a murder. But all is not what it seems.?Brad Bird (The Incredibles, The Iron Gia...LFF: La Bola Negra (15)
HOME, Manchester
Sunday 11 October 2026
Spain, 1932. A young man awaits to see if he has secured membership of the local casino. In 1937, a young nationalist soldier guards a republican prisoner. Jump to 2017 and an unexpected document is inherited by an historian from his grand...LFF: Possible Love (CTBA)
HOME, Manchester
Sunday 11 October 2026
A chance meeting introduces filmmaker Ye-ji to Mi-ok?s family, whose lives have been affected by her husband?s unemployment. They?re perfect subjects for her documentary on workers who have been made redundant, leading them to spend more t...MLF presents Gruffalo Granny Celebration (U)
HOME, Manchester
Sunday 11 October 2026
Enjoy a magical big screen adventure as we celebrate the first new Gruffalo story in over 20 years, and the return of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler's much-loved characters. Start your afternoon with a screening of The Gruffalo and The...The Magic City: Birmingham according to Sun Ra (18)
HOME, Manchester
Monday 12 October 2026
On May 22, 1914, Herman Poole Blount arrived on Earth in Birmingham, Alabama - known as The Magic City - a segregated industrial town in the rural South. After leaving for Chicago at the age of 32, he would become Sun Ra, one of the most e...
All Rivers Spill Their Stories to the Sea (12A) + Q&A
HOME, Manchester
Tuesday 13 October 2026
The North-East of England: fisherman Stan Rennie and generations before him have worked the same stretch of coastline, where the river meets the sea, for centuries. So when a vast tide of poisoned crabs and lobsters washes ashore like a bi...All Rivers Spill Their Stories to the Sea (CTBA) + Q&A
HOME, Manchester
Tuesday 13 October 2026
The North-East of England: fisherman Stan Rennie and generations before him have worked the same stretch of coastline, where the river meets the sea, for centuries. So when a vast tide of poisoned crabs and lobsters washes ashore like a bi...LFF: Fatherland (CTBA)
HOME, Manchester
Wednesday 14 October 2026
In 1949, Erika (a superb Sandra H?ller) is accompanying her father, Nobel laureate author Thomas Mann, on a literary tour through West and East Germany. As family tragedy strikes, it becomes apparent that the spiritual healing Mann deems e...LFF: Josephine (18)
HOME, Manchester
Thursday 15 October 2026
Eight-year-old Josephine (an astounding performance by newcomer Mason Reeves) knows that she saw something bad, but struggles to find answers. Her parents (a brilliant Channing Tatum and Gemma Chan) grapple with how to comfort her.?Weaving...LFF: Ink (15)
HOME, Manchester
Friday 16 October 2026
In 1969, Rupert Murdoch acquired British tabloid The Sun, hiring gifted editor Larry Lamb to change the paper?s fortunes. Out of this devil?s pact, British journalism and society was forever changed. Boyle?s kinetic cinematic energy is mat...Irish Film Morning/ Báite (CTBA) + discussion
HOME, Manchester
Saturday 17 October 2026
Peggy Casey is preparing for a big weekend of fishing and her pub, Tigh Chasey, will be full to the door. She desperately needs the business. Summer is coming to an end and it has been a few months since it rained. As a result, the water l...LFF: Fjord (CTBA)
HOME, Manchester
Saturday 17 October 2026
An evangelical family move to a small Norwegian town.?Their seemingly placid adjustment is shattered when suspicions around their children?s wellbeing place the parents under severe scrutiny.?Cristian Mungiu (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days) ...LFF: Club Kid (CTBA)
HOME, Manchester
Sunday 18 October 2026
A decade of drinking, drugs and clubs is finally starting to take its toll on Peter. The unexpected arrival of an infant son means it?s finally time for him to get his life together. How hard can it be??The perfect skewering of millennial ...LFF: Minotaur (18)
HOME, Manchester
Sunday 18 October 2026
At the onset of Russia?s invasion of Ukraine, Gleb, a powerful CEO, is preoccupied with feeding the war machine with workers, when he learns of his wife?s infidelity. Faced with this discovery and a complex professional decision, his scrup...LFF: Closing Night Film/ The Debut (15)
HOME, Manchester
Monday 19 October 2026
Quiet housewife Mona has become a supporting role in her own life; her husband barely acknowledges her presence and their children are on the cusp of fleeing the nest. So when, on an impulse, she auditions for a local production of an orig...My Brother's Wedding (18)
HOME, Manchester
Tuesday 20 October 2026
Pioneering Black independent filmmaker Charles Burnett followed up his 1978 debut feature Killer of Sheep with My Brother?s Wedding in 1983. The film centres on the young and proudly working-class Pierce Mundy, who finds himself caught bet...De Gaulle: Résistance (15)
HOME, Manchester
Wednesday 21 October 2026
June, 1940. France capitulates and signs the armistice. In the midst of the chaos, one man refuses to give up. Alone against the odds, this unknown general flees to London to save what remains of freedom. Without an army, without backing, ...Handsworth Songs (18)
HOME, Manchester
Thursday 22 October 2026
A poetic film essay on race and civil disorder in 1980s Britain, Handsworth Songs takes as its point of departure the civil disturbances of September and October 1985 in the Birmingham district of Handsworth and in the urban centres of Lon...African Jim (U) + discussion
HOME, Manchester
Sunday 25 October 2026
African Jim ? also released as Jim Comes to Jo?burg - is an important milestone of Black South African cinematic history that lives on in cultural memory, and introduced the singular jazz singer and activist, Dolly Rathebe to the big scree...Dog-friendly Screening/ Klara and the Sun (12A)
HOME, Manchester
Sunday 25 October 2026
Please ensure you have read the Terms and Conditions and House Rules before your visit, ?to ensure everyone has a good time.??Please contact info@homemcr. org with any questions.??Based on the bestselling novel from Nobel Prize-winner Kazu...
Reclaim the Frame presents: Beautiful Thing (15)
HOME, Manchester
Monday 26 October 2026
A tender story of first love, belonging and growing up, Beautiful Thing follows neighbours Jamie and Ste as their friendship deepens into romance over the course of one long, hot summer. Alongside them are Jamie?s mum Sandra and friend Lea...Pressure (15)
HOME, Manchester
Tuesday 27 October 2026
With a screenplay written by Horace Ov? and fellow Trinidadian author Sam Selvon, Pressure follows a Black family in west London; from the parents who came from Trinidad as part of the Windrush generation with their first son, now part of ...De Gaulle: Liberté (15)
HOME, Manchester
Wednesday 28 October 2026
June, 1940. France capitulates and signs the armistice. In the midst of the chaos, one man refuses to give up. Alone against the odds, this unknown general flees to London to save what remains of freedom. Without an army, without backing, ...Family Film/ The Snail and the Whale + Room on the Broom (U)
HOME, Manchester
Friday 30 October 2026
Celebrate Halloween with a double bill of family favourites from the wonderful worlds of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler. Two short films ? one spooky, one sweet ? no tricks, all treats!Films screening in this programme:The Snail and th...Royal Ballet/ Manon (CTBA)
HOME, Manchester
Tuesday 3 November 2026
In the seedy underbelly of 18th-century Paris, money is king. Nothing is sacred ? even love itself can be bought for the right price. A native of this hedonistic underworld, Manon is caught between twin desires when she falls in love with ...National Theatre Live - Golden Boy (15)
Cinemas
Thursday 5 November - Saturday 5 December 2026
Josh O'Connor (The Crown;Â The Mastermind) leads the cast in this searing revival of Clifford Odets' knockout American classic. Â 1930s New York, at the height of the Depression. Joe Bonaparte is a gifted young violinist with a future in ...Royal Opera/ Carmen (CTBA)
HOME, Manchester
Tuesday 17 November 2026
Under the oppressive heat of the Spanish sun, the fiercely independent Carmen attracts the attention of Don Jos?. She warns him not to fall in love with her, but his obsession knows no bounds. Damiano Michieletto?s searing production retur...Royal Ballet/ The Nutcracker (CTBA)
HOME, Manchester
Sunday 13 December 2026
At a cosy Christmas party, young Clara meets the mysterious magician Drosselmeyer, who gives her a nutcracker doll. When the guests have departed and the house is asleep, Clara sneaks downstairs in search of the doll. Instead, she finds Dr...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
