Most Popular Theatre in Manchester
Thu 26 Mar - Tue 28 Apr 2026
Wed 20 Aug - Sat 4 Oct 2025
A Knight's Tale The Musical
Friday 2 - Saturday 10 May 2025
Based on Brian Helgeland's iconic 2001 film (originally starring Heath Ledger and Paul Bettany), A Knight's Tale, the brand-new comedy musical, charges into Manchester Opera House for its World Premiere, prior to the West End. From the Prod...
Mary Poppins
Friday 2 - Saturday 17 May 2025
Cameron Mackintosh and Disney's spectacular production of the classic multi award-winning musical MARY POPPINS will embark on a 2024/2025 UK and Ireland tour from November. Acclaimed Australian stars, Stefanie Jones and Jack Chambers repris...
Torvill & Dean
Friday 2 - Sunday 4 May 2025
World-renowned figure skating duo Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean, best known as simply Torvill & Dean, are world-famous figure skaters and former British, World, European and Olympic champions. In 2024, they announced their retirement ...
Death of a Salesman
Friday 2 - Saturday 3 May 2025
One of the greatest plays of the twentieth century, Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman explodes onto the stage in this fresh new production led by acclaimed actor David Hayman (Sid and Nancy, Dad's Army). This timeless, powerful story tak...
Hamlet Hail to the Thief
Friday 2 - Sunday 18 May 2025
A frenetic adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet haunted by Radiohead's Hail to the Thief. Shakespeare's great tragedy and Radiohead's seminal album collide for a feverish experience that fuses theatre, music, and movement. In this frenetic di...
Abigail's Party
Friday 2 - Saturday 24 May 2025
Mike Leigh's tragicomic masterpiece ABIGAIL'S PARTY has garnered cult status across the decades. In the Royal Exchange's distinctive space, award-winning Director Natalie Abrahami draws on the unique in-the-round stage to create an intima...
North By Northwest
Friday 2 - Saturday 10 May 2025
Theatre legend Emma Rice takes on film legend Alfred Hitchcock in this riotously funny reworking that turns the original thriller on its head. It would be strange, would it not, if, in a city of seven million people, one man were never mist...
The 39 Steps
Friday 2 - Saturday 10 May 2025
Brilliantly bonkers and hilarious adaptation of Hitchcock's iconic thriller. Follow the dashing Richard Hannay as he embarks on a thrilling adventure filled with daring antics, romantic encounters and ghastly murders. Get set for a whirlwin...
Imaginary Friends
Friday 2 - Saturday 3 May 2025
Welcome to the warped mirror world of Imaginary Friends, the new solo show by award-winning writer-performer Daniel Bye, exploring everything from grief, morality and the end of the world, to authenticity in the contemporary media landscape...
The Baddies
Friday 2 - Sunday 4 May 2025
Based on the book by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler and presented by Freckle Productions & The Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh. Meet the very worst Baddies in the world! Don't you dare to come too close to a witch, a troll and an ancient...
Scottish Ensemble - Impulse: Music in Motion
Friday 2 May 2025
A memorised, kinetic production of Shostakovich's Chamber Symphony and Tchaikovsky's Serenade for Strings, performed by Scottish Ensemble and developed in partnership with choreographer Orjan Andersson. Bringing performers and audience into...
Walk Right Back - The Everly Brothers Story
Friday 2 May 2025
After phenomenal sell out tours, Walk Right Back is... BACK! From the Producers of That'll be the Day, the show tells the story of the most successful duo of all time - The Everly Brothers. Featuring hits such as Bye Bye Love, All I Have To...
An Evening With Crissy Rock - From Bedlam To Benidorm
Friday 2 May 2025
Best known for appearing on TV shows such as Benidorm, I'm A Celebrity and Celebrity Masterchef, Crissy Rock is better known to her fans as one of the most outstanding and outrageous stand up comedians of her generation. To celebrate over 3...
Murder Mystery Evening
Friday 2 May - Friday 19 December 2025
Nothing works up an appetite like exercising those brain cells. So bring your best detective skills and join us for a night of mystery and murder on one of our stunning heritage steam trains. If you love Agatha Christie or Sherlock Holmes -...
The Best Movies in Cinemas & Streaming
Friday 2 May - 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...
Remythed
Friday 2 - Saturday 3 May 2025
The debut show of Bet'n Lev Theatre, Remythed takes myths and legends, reshapes and retells them. Stories in ways you've never seen them before; full of insight, dreams and wisdom that'll leave you joyfully questioning every story you've e...
Oracle - A New Writing Anthology
Friday 2 May 2025
Enjoy seven short scripts from up-and-coming new writers, from the politically poignant to the utterly nonsensical. 'Oracle' follows radical, queer, groundbreaking Quantum Egg Theatre's pioneer anthology night, 'Algorithm', with another gen...
Vignettes - Letters to the NHS
Friday 2 - Sunday 4 May 2025
Presented by HER Productions, Vignettes is an evening of six short plays by established and emerging female-identifying Manchester-based playwrights, inspired by whatever they choose. Vignettes returns in 2025 with a very special 'Lette...
Little Gem
Friday 2 - Sunday 4 May 2025
An Altrincham Garrick production of Elaine Murphy's multi-award winning play. Love, sex, birth, death and salsa classes. Three generations of Irish women. One extraordinary year. Happy-go-lucky Amber, fresh out of school, is high on life, d...
Broadway Rave
Friday 2 May 2025
Calling all Musical Theatre nerds, drama geeks, actors, actresses, theatre lovers, and more! Welcome to Broadway Rave, a Broadway Dance Party celebrating the best in show-tunes and musical theatre. Come sing along to all of your favorite br...
Adventures in Wonderland
Friday 2 May - Saturday 19 July 2025
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...
Hedda Gabler
Friday 2 - Saturday 3 May 2025
By Henrik Ibsen, version by Patrick MarberDirected by Sean Aydon Just married. Bored already. Hedda longs to be free... This is the story of a woman so unhappy, she'll set the world on fire just to watch it burn. Ibsen's masterpiece is re-i...
The Library of Enchantment
Friday 2 May - Saturday 19 July 2025
Ever wanted to step inside a story? The Library of Enchantment is a fun-filled thrilling family-friendly escape room, full of seafaring adventures, time travelling tricks and a pesky old bookworm who's always up to meddlesome mischief! Can ...
The Lowry Dance & Drama Workshops
Friday 2 May - Thursday 31 July 2025
The Lowry offers a diverse and inclusive creating learning offer for Primary and Secondary Schools. With a variety of workshops linked to curriculum areas, mental health and wellbeing and project work. Held either at The Lowry or in scho...
Blue Velvet (18)
Friday 2 May 2025
David Lynch's 1986 masterpiece of a sleepy small-town caught in the grips of the American Nightmare has lost none of its disquieting power. Colliding sensuality and violence, voyeurism and innocence, its dissection of the American psyche r...
Holy Cow (15)
Friday 2 - Thursday 8 May 2025
★★★★ A bittersweet treat. Louise Courvoisier crafts a moving tale about cheese-making and coming of age, set in the rural French region of Jura. ~ Little White Lies. --- 18-year-old Totone spends most of his time drinking beer and p...
HOME Film Pass
Friday 2 May 2025 - Wednesday 1 April 2026
See everything everywhere (almost all at once) with the new HOME Film Pass! Experience new releases at HOME, any time, as many times as you like for one monthly price. For just £18 you'll also get a range of perks to make the most of your ...
Julie Keeps Quiet (12A)
Friday 2 - Thursday 8 May 2025
★★★★ A star player at an elite tennis school decides to stay silent when the head coach is suspended in Leonardo Van Dijl's absorbing tense movie of things unsaid and subjects avoided. ~ The Guardian. --- Chosen as the Belgian entry...
La Haine (15)
Friday 2 - Thursday 8 May 2025
★★★★★ Mathieu Kassovitz's celebrated story of inequality in a Paris banlieue is an effervescent classic which radiates with rage and comedy. ~ The Guardian. -- Mathieu Kassovitz's provocative, compelling and landmark drama - resto...
Sinners (15)
Friday 2 - Thursday 8 May 2025
★★★★ Ryan Coogler's sexy southern gothic horror is a blast; Michael B Jordan stars as twin 1930s mobsters in the Black Panther director's phenomenal-looking, blues-infused supernatural tale. ~ The Observer. --- From Ryan Coogler-...
The Penguin Lessons (12A)
Friday 2 - Thursday 8 May 2025
★★ Here is a well-meaning, awkward tonal jumble of a movie, based on the bestselling memoir by former teacher Tom Michell; it is a quirky true-story heart warmer, in which an adorable penguin is apparently supposed to redeem not merely ...
The Return (15)
Friday 2 - Thursday 8 May 2025
★★★✭ Uberto Pasolini's minimalist adaptation of the gory closing chapters of Homer's epic poem eschews witches, monsters and goddesses in favour of PTSD. There are no frills. ~ Irish Times. --- After 20 years away, Odysseus (Ralph F...
Treading Water (18)
Friday 2 - Thursday 8 May 2025
★★★ Not for the faint-hearted, a Mancunian in supported housing uses heroin to manage his intrusive thoughts in this hard-hitting, well-researched but horribly violent examination of mental health issues. ~ The Guardian. --- A raw and...
Imran Perretta: A Riot in Three Acts
Friday 2 May - Sunday 8 June 2025
This spring HOME will present A Riot In Three Acts an exhibition by artist, filmmaker and composer Imran Perretta, combining sound, sculpture and performance to reflect on the narratives of our urban spaces and the social inequality and rac...
Playreading Sessions
Friday 2 May - Friday 5 December 2025
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...
Shakespeare North Playhouse - A Guided Tour
Friday 2 May - Thursday 31 July 2025
Want to know more about why Shakespeare North Playhouse was built? Why in Prescot? Why it won 'Theatre Building of the Year 2023' at The Stage Awards? Look no further! On this Guided Tour through Shakespeare North Playhouse, you will be led...
Discounted Cineworld Cinema Tickets
Friday 2 May 2025 - Friday 2 January 2026
Buy your Cineworld cinema tickets in Manchester at a reduced price: "Group 1 Tickets" from only £5.49 (saving up to £1.50 per ticket): Cineworld Bolton - [click here]--- "Group 2 Tickets" from only £8.99 (saving up to £4 per ticke...
Discounted Odeon Cinema Tickets
Friday 2 May - Thursday 31 July 2025
A must for film buffs, treat yourself to any movie, on any day, at any time at Odeon Cinemas in Manchester for a fantastically cheap price: From £6.99 Monday to Thursday (saving up to £6 per ticket), or £8.99 any day of the week ...
Discounted Vue Cinema Tickets
Friday 2 May - Wednesday 9 July 2025
A must for film buffs, treat yourself to any movie, on any day, at any time at Vue Cinemas in Manchester for a fantastically cheap price: "Yellow Tickets" from only £6.50: Vue Manchester Printworks - [click here]Vue Manchester Red Q...
moviEscape - SAWtopsy
Friday 2 - Saturday 31 May 2025
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...
An Unfinished Film (12A)
Friday 2 - Thursday 8 May 2025
Director Xiaorui convinces his cast and crew to resume the shooting of a film halted ten years earlier. In January 2020, with the shoot almost complete, rumours regarding an illness begin to circulate and the director must decide whether to...
Parthenope (15)
Friday 2 - Thursday 8 May 2025
From Academy Award-winning filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino comes a monumental and deeply romantic story of a lifetime.?Born in the Bay of Naples in 1950, Parthenope searches for happiness over the long summers of her youth, falling in love with ...
The Ugly Stepsister (18)
Friday 2 - Thursday 8 May 2025
A gory twist on the classic Cinderella story, The Ugly Stepsister follows Elvira as she prepares to earn the prince?s affection at any cost. ?In a kingdom where beauty is a brutal business, Elvira will compete with the beautiful and enchant...
Two To One (12A)
Friday 2 - Thursday 8 May 2025
A light-hearted ensemble comedy about friendship, community, love and capitalism, Two To One is set in the long, hot East German summer of 1990. Maren, Robert and Volker have known and loved each other since childhood. In the final weeks be...
Art Stars (Reception - Year 2)
Friday 2 May - Friday 18 July 2025
Art Stars is a great activity for young people who enjoy making stuff!A great introduction to art, you?ll learn the basics of art in a fun and relaxed environment. You can try lots of different art techniques including drawing, painting, ce...
Andy Bell (Erasure)
Saturday 3 May 2025
Erasure's Andy Bell has announced a tour to support his new solo album, Ten Crowns. The shows will feature songs from the new album and favourites from Andy's solo catalogue alongside plenty of Erasure hits, and will see Andy performing wit...
Richard Herring
Saturday 3 May 2025
In 2021 Richard Herring went to his GP to find out why his right ball seemed to be growing bigger. It turned out that he had testicular cancer and one month later he was lying in hospital waiting to have his murderous gonad removed. Would h...
Brian Bilston & Henry Normal
Saturday 3 May 2025
Brian Bilston has been described as the Banksy of poetry and Twitter's unofficial Poet Laureate; with over 400,000 followers on social media, Brian has become truly beloved by the online community. He has published several collections of po...
Boy Toy Bottomless Brunch
Saturday 3 May - Saturday 1 November 2025
The Hottest Bottomless Brunch in Manchester is here... experience the full package! At Boy Toy Brunch they know how to have fun... The gorgeous Boy Toys - from male dancers and acrobats to waiters and performers - are here to please, and bo...
Bougie Drag Bottomless Brunch
Saturday 3 May - Saturday 6 December 2025
Bring it, queens! Every month, Manchester is the destination for the No.1 drag day out, presented by Manchester's leading queens Imani & Barb, plus regular guest queens. Together, they deliver their gag-worthy immersive performances and fie...
Freaky Tales (15)
Saturday 3 - Thursday 8 May 2025
★★★ Freaky Tales never amounts to more than the sum of its parts - but those parts, while uneven, are always high-energy and entertaining. ~ Empire. -- Set in 1987 Oakland, Freaky Tales is a multi-track mixtape of colourful characters...
