THEATRE IN MANCHESTER
THEATRE IN MANCHESTER
Most Popular Theatre in Manchester
TINA - The Tina Turner Musical
Palace Theatre
Mon 15 Dec 2025 - Sat 3 Jan 2026
Singin' In The Rain
Royal Exchange Theatre
Sun 14 Dec 2025 - Sun 25 Jan 2026
Robin Hood
Manchester Opera House, Manchester
Sunday 14 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 ...Disney On Ice - Find Your Hero
AO Arena, Manchester
Sunday 14 December 2025
Disney On Ice presents Find Your Hero, an adventure filled with tales of heroism from your favorite Disney stories. Join fearless wayfinder Moana and demigod Maui as they bravely voyage into uncharted territories to return the stolen heart ...Snowstorm - Wish
Trafford Centre, Manchester
Sunday 14 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...The Enormous Crocodile - The Musical
Lowry, Salford
Sunday 14 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.....The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe
Lowry, Salford
Sunday 14 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. ...Singin' In The Rain
Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester
Sunday 14 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
Sunday 14 - 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...Unfortunate: The Untold Story of Ursula the Sea Witch
Lowry, Salford
Sunday 14 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...Shaun the Sheep's Circus Show
Aviva Studios, Manchester
Sunday 14 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...The Hallé - Carol Concerts
The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Sunday 14 December 2025
Step into the timeless magic of Christmas with the Halle's ever-popular carol concerts. This cherished tradition truly signifies the start of the festive season for many of you, so immerse yourself in the heart-warming music and carols, per...Aladdin
Stockport Plaza, Stockport
Sunday 14 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...Manchester Camerata & AMC Gospel Choir - A Festive Happening
Albert Hall, Manchester
Sunday 14 December 2025
'Warm your soul at this Christmas carol concert with a gospel twist'Â -Manchester Evening News To close out the year Manchester Camerata have what has become very much a Christmas tradition, their annual Christmas celebration with AMC Gospe...Santa Live! The Ultimate Santa Show Party
The Albert Halls, Bolton
Sunday 14 - Wednesday 24 December 2025
Get ready this Christmas as Darling Productions UK brings you Bolton's brand-new festive extravaganza... SANTA LIVE! Disaster strikes in Christmas town when the Christmas spirit runs out and all the children names have mysteriously vanished...The New Adventures of Peter Pan
The Albert Halls, Bolton
Sunday 14 - 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 Pied Piper of Hamelin
The Met, Bury
Sunday 14 - 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...
Candlelight - Hans Zimmer's Best Works
Hall? St Peter's, Manchester
Sunday 14 December 2025 - Saturday 17 January 2026
 The most awe-inspiring music from one of the greatest film composers of all time brought to you by a string quartet in an intimate candlelight setting. No doubt these tracks will sound familiar, as they give life to iconic films such as ...Rumpelstiltskin
Contact, Manchester
Sunday 14 - Wednesday 31 December 2025
From the producers of Dick Whittington and Aladdin, The Big Tiny bring their new story of magic, mayhem and, above all, true love as Cupid comes to town this Christmas. Can she overcome the wicked tricks of Rumpelstiltskin and help Princ...Goldilocks & The Three Bears
Altrincham Garrick, Altrincham
Sunday 14 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...Jack Off The Beanstalk
Hope Mill Theatre, Manchester
Sunday 14 - 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...Santa Special
East Lancashire Railway, Bury
Sunday 14 - Wednesday 24 December 2025
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas! Treat the family to an enchanting voyage through the magical Irwell Valley, kick start your Christmas on one of our famous Santa Specials! There's more family friendly fun, colourful characters a...The Best Movies in Cinemas & Streaming
Manchester Multiple Venues, Manchester
Sunday 14 - 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...All That Heaven Allows (U)
HOME, Manchester
Sunday 14 - Thursday 18 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
Sunday 14 - 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
Sunday 14 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
Sunday 14 - 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
Sunday 14 - 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
Sunday 14 - 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
Sunday 14 - 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
Sunday 14 - Thursday 18 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
Sunday 14 - Thursday 18 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....jpg)
.jpg)
Lurker (15)
HOME, Manchester
Sunday 14 - Thursday 18 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
Sunday 14 - Friday 19 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
Sunday 14 - Thursday 18 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 ?...Snow White - Christmas Pantomime 2025
Blackburn Empire Theatre, Blackburn
Sunday 14 December 2025 - Sunday 4 January 2026
The Fairest Pantomime of Them All Mirror Mirror On The Wall... What's The Fairest Pantomime of Them all? It's SNOW WHITE, of course, and it's heading to The Blackburn Empire at Christmas 2025... Oh yes it is! Tom Rolfe Productions are thril...The Yard Thing
The Yard, Manchester
Sunday 14 December 2025
The first of our family friendly Hip Hop community events @theyard_mcr. A Co-Op of Artists, DJs, Dancers and Traders coming together to bring you some...Disney Christmas party
Stubshaw Cross Labour Club, Wigan
Sunday 14 December 2025
Disney party for kids with special guests including children's buffet, goody bags, games and prizes...Santa Afternoon Tea - Feni Rec Bar - 2:30PM
Feni Rec Cafe, Blackburn
Sunday 14 December 2025
Meet Santa on 14th of December at 2:30PM Kids get a free gift with every ticket. Reserve now for a magical time and have afternoon tea with santa...Sleeping Beauty Pantomime - 10:30am
The Lancastrian, Chorley
Sunday 14 December 2025
Join us for a fun-filled festive adventure as the classic tale of Sleeping Beauty is brought to life with music, laughter, and plenty of panto magic....Sleeping Beauty Pantomime - 12:00pm
The Lancastrian, Chorley
Sunday 14 December 2025
Join us for a fun-filled festive adventure as the classic tale of Sleeping Beauty is brought to life with music, laughter, and plenty of panto magic....Sleeping Beauty Pantomime - 2:00pm
The Lancastrian, Chorley
Sunday 14 December 2025
Join us for a fun-filled festive adventure as the classic tale of Sleeping Beauty is brought to life with music, laughter, and plenty of panto magic....Freaky Friday
HOME, Manchester
Monday 15 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...TINA - The Tina Turner Musical
Palace Theatre, Manchester
Monday 15 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...Home Alone in Concert - The Film with Live Orchestra
The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Monday 15 December 2025
This beloved holiday favourite features renowned composer John Williams' charming and delightful score performed live to picture by a live symphony orchestra. Since its debut in 2013, Home Alone in Concert has become a seasonal favourite wi...A Christmas Carol
Octagon Theatre, Bolton
Monday 15 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...Mrs Claus Saves Christmas
Octagon Theatre, Bolton
Monday 15 - 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,...
Palace Theatre Tour
Palace Theatre, Manchester
Monday 15 December 2025 - Saturday 15 August 2026
Opened in 1891, The Palace Theatre is one of Manchester's oldest and most beautiful theatres. With a glorious history hosting stars of stage and screen including Judy Garland, Gracie Fields, Les Dawson and Charlie Chaplin, today, the Palace...Hope Mill Community Choir & Orchestra
Hope Mill Theatre, Manchester
Monday 15 December 2025
Join Hope Mill Community Choir and Orchestra for their seasonal sharing. Each term the Community groups work on new performance pieces as well as building on the old favourites in their repertoire. ...The Bridgewater Hall Building Tour
The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Monday 15 December 2025 - Wednesday 29 April 2026
Take a look behind the scenes at The Bridgewater Hall, and learn more about Manchester's iconic international concert venue. The entertaining and knowledgeable tour guides will lead you through the building's history, its acoustics and arch...There's Always Tomorrow (PG)
HOME, Manchester
Monday 15 December 2025
Clifford Groves leads an unremarkable life as a toy manufacturer in Pasadena, California. Feeling ignored and unappreciated by his wife and children, Groves begins to rekindle an old relationship when a former employee unexpectedly walks ba...Satans Sinema Club Presents The Nightmare before Christmas
Satans Hollow, Manchester
Monday 15 December 2025
Who loves a good fright night? classic Christmas films and popcorn? Get in the festive mood this December with a screening of Nightmare before Christmas! Experience Satans hollow in a completely different way, a one of a kind experience, b...Dear Claudette: A Tale of Fame Filth and Scandal (15 December)
