Most Popular Theatre in Manchester
Wed 24 Apr - Sun 5 May 2024
Tue 3 Dec 2024 - Sun 12 Jan 2025
Tue 13 Aug - Sun 1 Sep 2024
Thu 17 Oct 2024 - Tue 16 Dec 2025
Wed 20 Mar - Sun 16 Jun 2024
Wed 9 Apr - Sat 17 May 2025
Sister Act
Tuesday 19 - Saturday 30 March 2024
Don't miss this eagerly anticipated brand new production of the Broadway and UK smash hit musical Sister Act direct from London. All your prayers have been answered with a stunning cast, including Coronation Street legend Sue Cleaver as Mot...
My Beautiful Laundrette
Tuesday 19 - Saturday 23 March 2024
Based on Hanif Kureishi's iconic and Oscar-nominated screenplay and last brought to the stage in 2019 directed by Nikolai Foster, My Beautiful Laundrette is set in London during the Thatcher years and tells the story of young British Pakist...
Player Kings
Tuesday 19 - Saturday 23 March 2024
Ian McKellen - 'one of the world's greatest actors' (Times) - plays Falstaff in a new version of Shakespeare's Henry IV, adapted by the award-winning writer and director Robert Icke. Joining the previously announced Ian McKellen as Sir John...
Northanger Abbey
Tuesday 19 - Saturday 23 March 2024
Bold reimagining of Austen's romantic novel Catherine Morland knows little of the world, but who needs real-life experience when you have novels to guide you? Catherine seizes her chance to escape her claustrophobic family and join the smar...
A Taste of Honey
Tuesday 19 March - Saturday 13 April 2024
Shelagh Delaney's iconic play A Taste of Honey is one of the most famous explorations of working-class life in the northwest of England. Directed by Emma Baggott this piece is admired for its gritty realism and honesty, but also for placing...
Rossini's La scala di seta
Tuesday 19 - Saturday 23 March 2024
What do you get when you combine a secret marriage, a silken ladder, and a plot full of twists and turns? Performed by RNCM students, Rossini's one-act opera La scala di seta is a lively blend of humour and romance. The young and amorous ...
Manchester Film Festival
Tuesday 19 - Sunday 24 March 2024
Manchester Film Festival is a ten-day celebration of film, with all films screened in a cinema with full surround sound and crystal-clear visuals. ...
The Best Movies in Cinemas & Streaming
Tuesday 19 March - Sunday 20 October 2024
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 £5 off tickets too. We've also compiled the best releases new to the streaming s...
Coram Shakespeare Schools Festival
Tuesday 19 - Friday 22 March 2024
Coram Shakespeare Schools Foundation is the world's largest youth drama festival. Enjoy an exhilarating evening of live theatre, featuring a series of unique abridged Shakespeare productions by local schools. See Shakespeare's timeless stor...
Gaia Vince in Conversation
Tuesday 19 March 2024
Have no doubt, we are facing a species emergency - but we can manage it. We can survive, but to do so will require a planned and deliberate migration of a kind humanity has never before undertaken.' In her latest book, Nomad Century: How to...
Lowry Workshops - Dance & Drama (Morning)
Tuesday 19 March 2024 - Friday 28 March 2025
The Lowry offers a diverse and inclusive creating learning offer. With a variety of workshops linked to curriculum areas, mental health and wellbeing and project work. All workshops and projects are tailor made to support your objectives an...
HOME Film Pass
Tuesday 19 March - Tuesday 31 December 2024
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 ...
Unravelling the Ribbon
Tuesday 19 - Sunday 24 March 2024
A moving and powerful tale of friendship and survival. The touching - and frequently hilarious - story of three women whose lives are touched by breast cancer. Rose is thirty-four and lives on a farm with her husband and two children. She...
Operation Ouch! Food, Poo and You
Tuesday 19 March - Sunday 9 June 2024
Dive headfirst into the digestive system for an unforgettable journey of super-sized science with Operation Ouch! Food, Poo and You. Get ready for a special mission to find out what happens to food when we eat. Guided by videos and illust...
Discounted Odeon Cinema Tickets
Tuesday 19 March - Saturday 31 August 2024
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 (£5.99 Mon-Thu, or £7.99 Mon-Sun): Odeon Trafford Centre (save up to £3.50 per ticket). Odeon Manc...
Discounted Vue Cinema Tickets
Tuesday 19 March - Tuesday 3 December 2024
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 voucher - only £7.50: Vue Manchester Printworks. Vue Manchester Red Quayside. Vue Bolton. Vue ...
Copa 71 (PG)
Tuesday 19 - Thursday 21 March 2024
★★★★ Add this to the list of great football documentaries. Fifa's already tattered reputation is obliterated in James Erskine and Rachel Ramsay's engaging film about an erased moment in women's sporting history. ~ The Times. --- It...
Drive-Away Dolls (15)
Tuesday 19 - Thursday 21 March 2024
★★★ Ethan Coen strikes out on his own with a frivolous frolic that wears its slightness like a badge of honour. ~ Total Film. --- Written by Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke, this comedy caper follows Jamie, an uninhibited free spirit ...
Dune: Part Two (12A)
Tuesday 19 - Friday 22 March 2024
★★★★ The second half of the hallucinatory sci-fi epic is a staggering spectacle. Denis Villeneuve's monumental adaptation expands its extraordinary world of shimmering strangeness. It's impossible to imagine anyone doing it bette...
Monster (12A)
Tuesday 19 - Thursday 21 March 2024
★★★★ Japanese writer-director Hirokazu Kore-eda's follow-up to Broker is a minutely observed, profoundly compassionate chronicle of untidy contemporary lives. ~ BBC. --- Mysterious and deeply moving, MONSTER is a breathtaking pie...
Perfect Days (PG)
Tuesday 19 - Thursday 21 March 2024
★★★★ Veteran German director Wim Wenders (Paris, Texas) heads to Japan with this serene and unassuming drama. Strengthened by a sympathetic and understated performance from Yakusho, Perfect Days is an ode to solitude and everyday ...
The New Boy (15)
Tuesday 19 - Thursday 21 March 2024
★★★ Cate Blanchett in imperious zealot mode is hard to resist as a boozy nun who indulges a possible second coming in this woozy wartime saga. ~ The Guardian. --- Introducing Aswan Reid who stars alongside Cate Blanchett (Tar, Carol),...
The Zone of Interest (12A)
Tuesday 19 - Thursday 21 March 2024
★★★★★ A towering, awful masterwork, Jonathan Glazer's stark film about the domestic routine of the Hoss family next door to Auschwitz is a colossal, profoundly disturbing achievement in filmmaking. ~ Little White Lies. --- Oscar N...
Wicked Little Letters (15)
Tuesday 19 - Thursday 21 March 2024
★★★ An ultimately rather cosy tale of British eccentricity, enlivened by a superb cast. ~ Total Film. --- A 1920s English seaside town bears witness to a dark and absurd scandal in this riotous mystery comedy. Based on a stranger than...
Poor Things (18)
Tuesday 19 - Wednesday 20 March 2024
★★★★✭ Expect Oscars all around again as the team behind The Favourite deliver another period drama which is one of the best - and maddest - comedies in many a year. ~ ManchesterTheatres. com --- From filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos and...
Birthday Girl (18)
Tuesday 19 March 2024
Michael Noer's Danish suspense drama set on a cruise ship bound for the Caribbean. The 42-year-old Nanna has invited her daughter Cille and her best friend on a cruise to celebrate Cille's 18th birthday. The expectations are high, and they ...
IO Capitano
Tuesday 19 March 2024
A Homeric fairy tale that tells the adventurous journey of two young boys, Seydou and Moussa, who leave Dakar to reach Europe....
Kim's Video (18)
Tuesday 19 March 2024
Physical media reigns supreme in Ashley Sabin and David Redmon documentary, an elegiac tribute to the iconic video store in New York City that inspired a generation of cinephiles before it mysteriously closed its doors and sent its legendar...
The Sweet East (18)
Tuesday 19 March 2024
In Sean Price Williams' picaresque journey through the cities and woods of the Eastern seaboard of the United States, Lillian, a high school senior from South Carolina, gets her first glimpse of the wider world on a class trip to Washingt...
CPHT Manchester Hypnotherapy Diploma Course 2024
Tuesday 19 March - Wednesday 27 November 2024
Book a call on Zoom to chat about the next Solution Focused Hypnotherapy course, starts February 2024 in Manchester. One weekend per month x 10 months...
Sarah Millican
Wednesday 20 March 2024
Sarah Millican is an award-winning stand-up comedian and writer. Since winning the 2008 if. comedy Best Newcomer Award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival for her debut solo show; Sarah Millican's Not Nice, she has fast-established herself as ...
Opera North - Cavalleria Rusticana + Aleko
Wednesday 20 - Friday 22 March 2024
Enjoy twice the thrill with this double bill of the ever-popular Cavalleria rusticana and Rachmaninov's rarely heard Aleko. In both gritty blood-soaked dramas, jealous love triangles plummet to violent ends. Cavalleria rusticana Turiddu ...
Giovanni Pernice - Let Me Entertain You
Wednesday 20 March 2024
The ultimate showman returns! Giovanni Pernice is back in 2024 for his brand new live tour - Let Me Entertain You. The Strictly Come Dancing champion and BAFTA winner is the epitome of live entertainment and will be joined by a world class ...
Inspired By Music
Wednesday 20 March 2024
An electrifying new panel event by Skiddle and GigPig, where renowned industry experts converge onto one stage to share their wealth of experience, ignite inspiration and support the next generation of talent. Discover firsthand the journey...
Jaz Coleman (Killing Joke) - Unspeakable: A Spoken Word Tour
Wednesday 20 March 2024
An artist of fierce intellect and purpose, Jaz Coleman heads out across the UK to tell it like it is - the UNSPEAKABLE truth in the world of Killing Joke. Since forming the iconic post-punk band Killing Joke in 1978, the band has play...
Being Human by Lisa Simpson and Susan Kempster
Wednesday 20 March 2024
Liverpool-based choreographer Lisa Simpson creates an emotionally-charged duet for bodies very different from her own. Using her unique choreographic practice and told through expressive physical dance by Freya Davis and Nathan Keenoo, Bein...
Opera North Pre-Show Talk - Cavalleria rusticana / Aleko
Wednesday 20 - Friday 22 March 2024
You'll hear more about the background to the piece and Opera North's approach to it from a member of the Company. Speakers will be confirmed as soon as possible. Tickets are free but must be booked in advance. These talks are designed for a...
Summer Holiday (U)
Wednesday 20 March 2024
A wonderfully entertaining slice of 60s nostalgia, 1963 classic film Summer Holiday is a hit-filled, toe-tapping, feel-good musical romp. Take a double-decker London Transport bus - across France, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, Yugoslavia and...
Les Misérables School Edition
Wednesday 20 - Saturday 23 March 2024
Winner of over 100 international awards and seen by over 65 million people worldwide, Les Miserables is an epic and uplifting story about the survival of the human spirit. Now adapted for high school performers, Les Miserables School Editio...
Citizen Sleuth (18)
Wednesday 20 - Friday 22 March 2024
Citizen Sleuth offers a searing examination of the ethics surrounding the true crime genre and how the power of narrative can affect truth, justice and threaten to destroy affected communities. The documentary follows Emily Nestor and her M...
Banel & Adama (12A)
Wednesday 20 - Thursday 21 March 2024
★★★✭ A gorgeous experience that would gently blow you away on a big screen. ~ Little White Lies. --- Banel and Adama are fiercely in love. The young couple live in a remote village in northern Senegal and for them, nothing else i...
Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World (18)
Wednesday 20 - Thursday 21 March 2024
★★★★ Radu Jude's bracingly anarchic Romanian black comedy, a portrait of an underpaid, overworked film production assistant with an obscenity-spewing alter ego, lays into workplace ethics with brio. ~ The Observer. --- Radu Jude's R...
The Secret of Kells (PG)
Wednesday 20 March 2024
★★★★ Hand-drawn and watercoloured, this animation is as sublime as a stained-glass window. ~ Total Film. --- Beautifully drawn and refreshingly calm, The Secret of Kells hearkens back to animation's golden age with an enchanting ta...
Music Drop
Wednesday 20 March - Wednesday 24 July 2024
Beatmakers, rappers, singers or anyone interested in making music, Music Drop is the perfect project for you. Whatever your musical background is this project will teach you key music skills and support your musical journey. Music Drop offe...
North West Shorts 2
Wednesday 20 March 2024
A collection of short films from the North WestKISSKatja Roberts / United KingdomWorld PremiereHaunted by her past kisses, Annie must confront the one kiss she refuses to acknowledge. St. NowhereMorgan Bailey / United KingdomConnie, a foo...
Sleep (18)
Wednesday 20 March 2024
Expectant parents navigate a nightmare scenario when a spouse develops a sleep disorder that may belie a disturbing split personality in writer-director Jason Yu's intense South Korean horror feature debut. ...
The Moor (18)
Wednesday 20 March 2024
A British horror movie directed by Chris Cronin, The Moor stars Sophia La Porta, David Edward Robertson, Bernard Hill, and Elizabeth Dormer-Phillips. Claire endured the devastating loss of her best friend, who was abducted and tragically mu...
Little Creatives
Wednesday 20 - Wednesday 27 March 2024
Join The Lowry for their weekly Little Creatives session. This is designed for under 5's with different activities each week. Your little one is sure to have fun and get creative in these workshops. All attendees will need to book a ticket....
Opera North - Così fan tutte
Thursday 21 - Saturday 23 March 2024
It starts with a casual bet. The wily cynic Don Alfonso wagers that the fiancees of two young men, complacent in their romantic notions of love, won't stay faithful for a minute if put to the test. It sounds harmless enough and, anyway, the...
National Theatre Live - The Motive and the Cue (15)
Thursday 21 March 2024
Sam Mendes (The Lehman Trilogy) directs Mark Gatiss as John Gielgud and Johnny Flynn as Richard Burton in this fierce and funny new play. 1964: Richard Burton, newly married to Elizabeth Taylor, is to play the title role in anexperimental ...