THEATRE IN MANCHESTER
THEATRE IN MANCHESTER
Most Popular Theatre in Manchester
TINA - The Tina Turner Musical
Palace Theatre
Wed 17 Dec 2025 - Sat 3 Jan 2026
Singin' In The Rain
Royal Exchange Theatre
Wed 17 Dec 2025 - Sun 25 Jan 2026
The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe
Lowry, Salford
Wednesday 17 December 2025 - Sunday 11 January 2026
Step through the wardrobe into the magic kingdom of Narnia where a world of wonder awaits. Join Lucy, Edmund, Susan and Peter as they meet new friends, face dangerous foes and learn the lessons of courage, sacrifice, and the power of love. ...Robin Hood
Manchester Opera House, Manchester
Wednesday 17 December 2025 - Sunday 4 January 2026
Get ready for an adventure like no other as Jason Manford and Ben Nickless take over Sherwood Forest in this year's must-see show, Robin Hood!Join the most heroic outlaw of them all as the arrow-shooting hero Robin Hood and his trusty band ...Snowstorm - Wish
Trafford Centre, Manchester
Wednesday 17 December 2025 - Sunday 4 January 2026
"Wish": A Spellbinding Spectacle of Ice and Wonder This Winter Trafford Centre | Dec 5 - Jan 4 Back by overwhelming popular demand, the North West's most beloved winter production returns for its fifth triumphant year - and it's more spellb...Freaky Friday
HOME, Manchester
Wednesday 17 December 2025 - Sunday 11 January 2026
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 generations, comes to HOME with its UK stage premiere next year. When an overworked mother and her t...The Enormous Crocodile - The Musical
Lowry, Salford
Wednesday 17 December 2025 - Sunday 4 January 2026
"For my lunch today I would like... a nice juicy little child!" He's greedy, he's grumptious, he's horrid! The Enormous Crocodile is weaving his way through the jungle to Lowry in search of delicious little fingers and squidgy podgy knees.....TINA - The Tina Turner Musical
Palace Theatre, Manchester
Wednesday 17 December 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...The Holiday In Concert - The Film with Live Orchestra
The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Wednesday 17 December 2025
Cherished 2006 Christmas romcom The Holiday is set presented live in concert this festive season. The show will see the film's enchanting score by world renowned, highly celebrated and multiple Academy Award® and Golden Globe® winning co...Singin' In The Rain
Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester
Wednesday 17 December 2025 - Sunday 25 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 rad...Believe! The Polar Express Experience
O2 Victoria Warehouse, Manchester
Wednesday 17 - Wednesday 31 December 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 t...A Christmas Carol
Octagon Theatre, Bolton
Wednesday 17 December 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 he...Cinderella (SNP)
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Wednesday 17 - Wednesday 31 December 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 cap...Unfortunate: The Untold Story of Ursula the Sea Witch
Lowry, Salford
Wednesday 17 December 2025 - Sunday 11 January 2026
The critically acclaimed parody musical, Unfortunate: The Untold Story of Ursula the Sea Witch returns to the Lowry for a five-week Christmas season. This splash-hit show has sold out twice previously, so get your tentacles round tickets fa...The Moonwalkers: A Journey with Tom Hanks
Aviva Studios, Manchester
Wednesday 17 December 2025 - Sunday 11 January 2026
Tom Hanks narrates an epic experience that offers a new perspective on humankind's past and future voyages to the moon. This winter at Aviva Studios, step into The Moonwalkers - an awe-inspiring immersive experience for all ages. Created by...Shaun the Sheep's Circus Show
Aviva Studios, Manchester
Wednesday 17 December 2025 - Sunday 4 January 2026
A high-flying family adventure with un-BAA-lievable acrobats comes to Aviva Studios this winter Two worlds gleefully collide in Shaun the Sheep's Circus Show - brought to the stage by the internationally-acclaimed Australian circus ensemble...VOGUE: Inventing the Runway
Aviva Studios, Manchester
Wednesday 17 December 2025 - Saturday 10 January 2026
Lose yourself in the world of fashion runway shows past, present and future, in this immersive experience created in collaboration with Anna Wintour and Vogue editors and narrated by Cate Blanchett. VOGUE: Inventing the Runway is a spectacu...
Aladdin
Stockport Plaza, Stockport
Wednesday 17 December 2025 - Sunday 4 January 2026
Take a magical carpet ride to the North West's home of sensational Pantomime entertainment for Stockport Plaza's glittering production of Aladdin starring Brian Capron, star of Coronation Street and many TV and stage presentations, who make...Santa Live! The Ultimate Santa Show Party
The Albert Halls, Bolton
Wednesday 17 - Wednesday 24 December 2025
After a sell-out run in 2024, get ready as Santa LIVE! returns to Bolton this Christmas with a brand-new adventure! Disaster strikes in Christmas town when Santa's cheeky elf Muddles has gotten all the presents in a muddle! Join our m...The New Adventures of Peter Pan
The Albert Halls, Bolton
Wednesday 17 - Wednesday 31 December 2025
The Pirates are coming.... Oh yes they ARRRGH! Take flight alongside Peter, Wendy and Tinks as we venture into Never Island and meet the dastardly Captain Hook and his sidekick Smee. This perfect festive treat features spectacular scenery...The Amazing Adventures of Dick Whittington and His Magical Cat
St Helens Theatre Royal, St Helens
Wednesday 17 December 2025 - Sunday 11 January 2026
St Helens Theatre Royal is set to dazzle audiences this Christmas with its first-ever production of Dick Whittington, marking a major milestone in Regal Entertainments' 25-year history. Get ready for an unforgettable festive experience, ...Jack Off The Beanstalk
Hope Mill Theatre, Manchester
Wednesday 17 - Tuesday 30 December 2025
Get ready for the udderly cheeky, naughtiest version of Jack and the Beanstalk you've ever dared to see! Warning: this is not your childhood fairy tale-unless your bedtime stories came with a parental advisory! In this fabulously filthy twi...The Best Movies in Cinemas & Streaming
Manchester Multiple Venues, Manchester
Wednesday 17 - Wednesday 31 December 2025
If you are looking for a film to watch, ManchesterTheatres. com have rounded-up the best movies currently showing at Manchester's cinemas, and we are offering discounted tickets at Odeon, Vue, Cineworld and HOME too. We've also compiled...A Christmas Fair
Oldham Coliseum Theatre, Oldham
Wednesday 17 December 2025 - Friday 2 January 2026
The lights might be dimmed at the Oldham Coliseum for now, but Christmas isn't cancelled - it's bursting out of the theatre walls and spilling right into the heart of the town. This December, Oldham Coliseum are teaming up with the legendar...Mrs Claus Saves Christmas
Octagon Theatre, Bolton
Wednesday 17 - Wednesday 24 December 2025
Step into Mrs Claus' kitchen for a festive bake-off like no other! As she prepares holiday treats, things spiral into a recipe-tangling disaster. With everything going wrong, she'll need help from the children in the audience! A fun-filled,...Adventures in Wonderland
Z-arts, Manchester
Wednesday 17 December 2025 - Wednesday 22 July 2026
Fall down the rabbit hole and have your very own magical adventure with Adventures in Wonderland at Z-arts! Created by Z-arts in partnership with Macmillan Children's Books, step into Alice's shoes and have your very own magical Adventure i...Xaverian College Christmas Concert
RNCM, Manchester
Wednesday 17 December 2025
With the largest sixth form music department in the North of England, Xaverian College returns to the RNCM for their festive music showcase. ...All That Heaven Allows (U)
HOME, Manchester
Wednesday 17 - Tuesday 23 December 2025
★★★★ After the successful but preposterous weepie Magnificent Obsession, director Douglas Sirk reteamed with stars Jane Wyman and Rock Hudson for this exquisite melodrama. He deftly critiques the moral values (and hypocrisy) of 1950...It's a Wonderful Life (U)
HOME, Manchester
Wednesday 17 - Wednesday 24 December 2025
★★★★★ "It's a Wonderful Life is the closest thing to a postwar American Dickens. This is considered by many to be one of the finest films ever made." ~ Little White Lies. --- Frank Capra's heart-warming 1946 masterpiece has been...moviEscape - SAWtopsy
Moviescape Stockport, Manchester
Wednesday 17 December 2025 - Sunday 15 February 2026
Inspired by the hit SAW movie franchise, SAWtopsy at moviESCAPE, Stockport's leading Escape Room offering, is a gory and ominous room with dim, atmospheric lighting, however it does not feature any jump scares - well none that are delibe...Blue Moon (15)
HOME, Manchester
Wednesday 17 - Thursday 18 December 2025
On the evening of March 31, 1943, legendary lyricist Lorenz Hart confronts his shattered self-confidence in Sardi?s bar as his former collaborator Richard Rodgers celebrates the opening night of his ground-breaking hit musical ?Oklahoma!?.?...Bugonia (15)
HOME, Manchester
Wednesday 17 December 2025
Jesse Plemons is outstanding as a conspiracy-obsessed paranoiac who, with the help of his brother, kidnaps a powerful CEO, believing she is an alien intent on destroying Earth. An inspired take on Jang Joon-hwan?s 2003 South Korean satire S...
Eleanor the Great (12A)
HOME, Manchester
Wednesday 17 - Thursday 18 December 2025
In Eleanor the Great, June Squibb brings to vivid life the witty and proudly troublesome 94-year-old Eleanor Morgenstein, who after a devastating loss, tells a tale that takes on a dangerous life of its own. Scarlett Johansson?s directorial...Eternity (15)
HOME, Manchester
Wednesday 17 - Thursday 18 December 2025
In an afterlife where souls have one week to decide where to spend eternity, Joan is faced with the impossible choice between the man she spent her life with and her first love, who died young and has waited decades for her to arrive.?...In the Mood for Love - 25th Anniversary (PG)
HOME, Manchester
Wednesday 17 - Tuesday 23 December 2025
Hong Kong, 1962: Chow Mo-wan and Su Li-zhen move into neighbouring apartments on the same day. Their encounters are formal and polite - until a discovery about their spouses creates an intimate bond between them. At once delicately mannered...It Was Just an Accident (12A)
HOME, Manchester
Wednesday 17 - Wednesday 24 December 2025
A minor traffic accident reunites two men with a shared past. One is set on revenge, but then doubts set in. It Was Just an Accident opens as a languid and at times gently humorous road trip, with the actions of each participant keenly obse...Lurker (15)
HOME, Manchester
Wednesday 17 - Wednesday 24 December 2025
When rising pop star Oliver encounters retail worker Matthew, it?s the start of a perfect bromance. But as Matthew ingratiates himself into Oliver?s inner circle, the lines between friendship and obsession begin to blur, with dire consequen...Pillion (18)
HOME, Manchester
Wednesday 17 - Wednesday 24 December 2025
Colin is a quiet, unassuming man with supportive parents whose world is rocked when he enters a dom-sub relationship with towering, attractive biker Ray. Navigating his new role, he learns about its pleasures and pains, including those that...Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (12A)
HOME, Manchester
Wednesday 17 - Wednesday 24 December 2025
He solved the murder of the patriarch of a bitter, feuding family. He entered the labyrinthine world of a tech bro to peel away the layers of deceit and treachery to reveal their murderer. Now Benoit Blanc faces his toughest challenge yet ?...Dear Claudette: A Tale of Fame Filth and Scandal (17 December)
The Peer Hat, Manchester
Wednesday 17 December 2025
Join us at Peer Hat on the 15th, 16th and 17th of December A ridiculously festive and filthy night. A story of crime, celebrity and glamour......Manchester Improv Wednesdays
33 Oldham Street, Manchester
Wednesday 17 December 2025 - Wednesday 28 January 2026
An evening of fully improvised comedy - every Wednesday at 33 Oldham StreetThe Line Up.... Wet Skeleton is one performer, zero script, and infinite possibilities. Watch as her 206 soggy (and slightly wonky) bones become all manner of charac...A Christmas Carol (performed by The Book of Darkness & Light)
HOME, Manchester
Thursday 18 - Saturday 20 December 2025
After the success of last year's Nightmares, The Book of Darkness & Light return with their ghostly adaption of this most beloved festive classic. Join Ebenezer Scrooge on a supernatural journey into the past, present and yet-to-come. The c...Goldilocks & The Three Bears
Altrincham Garrick, Altrincham
Thursday 18 December 2025 - Sunday 4 January 2026
Roll up! Roll up! The Circus is in town! Dame Gertie Dollop runs a Circus show with her son - Silly Billy, but they have fallen on hard times particularly with the dastardly Ringmaster Heinkel, owner of the rival 'Circus of Horrors' up to h...St Agnes Fountain (Chris Leslie, Chris While & Julie Matthews)
The Met, Bury
Thursday 18 December 2025
Affectionately known as 'The Aggies' and 'The Christmas Band', the beloved St Agnes Fountain have toured every December since 2001 bar one (and we all know which one that was!). Now they are ready to tread the tinsel boards once more this D...Little Bear and the Christmas Lights
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Thursday 18 - Wednesday 24 December 2025
Join Little Bear on her magical adventure as she searches for the perfect Christmas lights. Filled with sensory wonders, puppetry and music this is the perfect theatrical experience for your Snowbabies. From the team that brought you Little...Baby & Carer/ Prime Minister (12A)
HOME, Manchester
Thursday 18 December 2025
In August 2017, in the lead-up to national elections, Jacinda Ardern unexpectedly became New Zealand?s opposition party leader. She had just turned 37.?Two frenetic months later, she was Prime Minister. Just before the final vote was in, sh...Fox and His Friends (15)
HOME, Manchester
Thursday 18 December 2025
Another of Rainer Werner Fassbinder?s films that is clearly indebted to the Hollywood melodramas of Douglas Sirk, Fox and His Friends is a tale of money, emotion and social class. The plot follows a working-class gay man, played by Fassbind...
Elf Cinema night
The Pied Piper of Hamelin
The Met, Bury
Friday 19 - Sunday 28 December 2025
A very Bury Christmas adventure for all the family! The Met presents a spectacular local twist on the classic tale! When the dastardly Pied Piper arrives in Bury with plans to strip away everything that makes our town special, only Fairy Bu...BBC Philharmonic - The BBC Philharmonic Christmas Special
The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Friday 19 December 2025
Sleighbells at the ready! Step into a winter wonderland as we bring the magic of Christmas to life with a dazzling evening of festive music. Tonight we bring the magic of Christmas to life with a dazzling evening of festive music. From the ...Bingo Lingo
Freight Island, Manchester
Friday 19 December 2025
Taking bingo, shaking all the dust-out and turning it into one mad, confetti-filled, party-bingo night of mayhem, this is Bingo like you've never experienced before. You'll be sat at a table with all of your friends playing bingo in a f...James B Partridge - The Big Christmas Assembly
New Century Hall, Manchester
Friday 19 December 2025
Get ready for a night packed with festive spirit, singalong tunes, and the nostalgia of Christmases gone by. Known for his vibrant energy and exceptional vocal talent, James brings seasonal favourites and unexpected mashups that will have t...Murder Mystery Evening
