Most Popular Theatre in Manchester
Thu 26 Mar - Tue 28 Apr 2026
Wed 20 Aug - Sat 4 Oct 2025
Tue 29 Jul 2025 - Sat 17 Jan 2026
Tue 25 Nov 2025 - Sat 3 Jan 2026
Liberation
Monday 30 June - Saturday 26 July 2025
How does a revolution begin and who keeps it going? Inspired by true events in Black British history, LIBERATION is a powerful new play from writer Ntombizodwa Nyoni and director Monique Touko tracing the private lives of activists who foug...
The Best Movies in Cinemas & Streaming
Monday 30 June - Wednesday 31 December 2025
Ā 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 HOMEĀ too. We've also compiled...
Floridita Dance - Free Salsa Taster Class
Monday 30 June 2025
Ever wanted to learn Salsa but never danced before? Now's your chance! Start with Floridita Dance's FREE taster class designed just for absolute beginners. No partner is required. After that, you can keep growing your skills through their c...
The Lowry Dance & Drama Workshops
Monday 30 June - Thursday 31 July 2025
Ā 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...
Jane Austen Wrecked My Life (15)
Monday 30 June - Thursday 3 July 2025
Ā Starring Camille Rutherford (Anatomy of a Fall), Pablo Pauly (The French Dispatch) and Charlie Anson (Death on the Nile), Jane Austen Wrecked My Life is an uplifting and heart-warming throwback to classic romance, with a modern sensibili...
Mars Express (15)
Monday 30 June - Thursday 3 July 2025
Sci-fi and film noir blend together in 'Mars Express,' the highly anticipated French animated feature from director Jeremie Perin. In 2200, private detective Aline Ruby and her android partner Carlos Rivera are hired by a wealthy businessma...
moviEscape - SAWtopsy
Monday 30 June - Monday 28 July 2025
Ā 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...
Fighters (12A)
Monday 30 June 2025
Meet Matt Edwards, a lower-limb amputee boxer determined to break barriers and obtain his amateur boxing license?the crucial first step toward his dream of becoming a professional fighter. But the real fight isn?t just in the ring; it?s aga...
From Hilde with Love (15)
Monday 30 June - Thursday 3 July 2025
From Hilde, With Love follows Hilde Coppi, a member of an anti-Nazi organisation who is imprisoned by the Gestapo for anti-regime activity who must fight for her freedom from her prison cell, all while taking care of her newborn child. ?Ber...
Hidden (15)
Monday 30 June - Thursday 3 July 2025
Michael Haneke was awarded the Best Director prize at Cannes for his stunning exploration of a past that haunts the present.?This utterly compelling psychological thriller from Michael Haneke - one of cinema?s most daring, original and cont...
Red Path (15)
Monday 30 June - Thursday 3 July 2025
Mghila Mountain, Tunisia, November 2015. When a jihadist group attacks two very young shepherds, 14-year-old Ashraf is forced to take a macabre message back to his family. Traumatised and trying not to lose his mind, Ashraf finds himself co...
The Phoenician Scheme (15)
Monday 30 June - Thursday 3 July 2025
The story of a family and a family business.?A new espionage caper from the inimitable Wes Anderson. Starring Benicio del Toro as Zsa-zsa Korda, one of the richest men in Europe; Mia Threapleton as Liesl, his daughter/a nun; Michael Cera as...
The Piano Teacher (18)
Monday 30 June - Thursday 3 July 2025
Isabelle Huppert gives a performance of astounding emotional intensity as Erika Kohut, a repressed middle-aged woman who teaches piano at the Vienna Conservatory. When one of Erika?s students, the handsome and assured Walter Klemmer, attemp...
The Salt Path (12A)
Monday 30 June - Thursday 3 July 2025
The Salt Path is the profound true story of husband and wife, Raynor and Moth Winn?s 630-mile trek along the beautiful but rugged Cornish, Devon and Dorset coastline. After being forcibly removed from their home, they make the desperate dec...
The Way We Talk (12A)
Monday 30 June - Thursday 3 July 2025
A soul-searching story about three deaf friends in Hong Kong, Wolf, Alan and Sophie. When Sophie graduates from university and starts a new job, she realises she has been struggling to be seen as normal. ?Tensions grow between the three fri...
Matthew Bourne's The Midnight Bell
Tuesday 1 - Saturday 5 July 2025
Matthew Bourne's award-winning The Midnight Bell comes to Salford for the first time in 2025. In 1930s London ordinary people emerge from cheap boarding houses nightly to pour out their passions, hopes and dreams in the pubs and fog-bound s...
Adventures in Wonderland
Tuesday 1 July 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...
Alcotraz Prison Cocktail Bar
Tuesday 1 July - Monday 1 December 2025
This is the immersive cocktail bar behind bars, where the serving inmates are your bartenders, the guards are crooked and you become a part of the story. āOnce convicted, inmates are taken into an exciting world of mischief as they are fi...
The Bridgewater Hall Building Tour with BSL
Tuesday 1 July 2025
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...
Shakespeare North Playhouse - A Guided Tour
Tuesday 1 July - Saturday 1 November 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...
Little Reads
Tuesday 1 July 2025
Little Reads with Manchester Literature Festival. Join Ged for an interactive Storytelling session in our new Children's Library. 10am session - Pre-school/Family session 11am- Inclusive session (If you require a BSL interpreter please do l...
Searching for Amani (CTBA)
Tuesday 1 July 2025
Simon Ali, a 13-year-old aspiring journalist, finds himself on a dangerous odyssey as he investigates his father's mysterious murder within the boundaries of one of Kenya's largest wildlife conservancies. As a ravaging drought encroaches, h...
Tornado (15)
Tuesday 1 - Thursday 3 July 2025
Set in the rugged landscape of 1790?s Britain, Tornado finds herself caught in a perilous situation when she and her father?s travelling puppet show crosses paths with a ruthless criminal gang led by Sugarman and his ambitious son Little Su...
Murder Mystery - Death in the Shadows
Tuesday 1 July - Monday 1 December 2025
Step into the shoes of the city's best detective in this phone app-based game. On a ghost tour gone wrong, famous travel blogger Bella Wanderlust is found dead. Was it her jealous boyfriend? The eccentric tour guide? Or someone lurking in t...
Living the Life of Riley
Wednesday 2 July 2025
Starring Vicky Entwistle,Ā Living the Life of Riley is a heart-warming, heart-breaking and hilarious tale of a family, trying to negotiate their way through teenage tantrums, autism, and Grandma. Joanne Riley always knew there was something...
Juno Birch
Wednesday 2 July 2025
Ā Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's Juno Birch the absolutely stunning outlandish blue alien who'd love nothing more than to speak to the manager of Earth. Juno travel's the Earth and probes the absurdity of life on this planet, in her...
This is your tribute
Wednesday 2 - Sunday 6 July 2025
A brand new interactive cabaret show from the creators of 'An Evening Without Kate Bush' and 'Julie Madly Deeply'. 'Expect to laugh, sing and be merry!' (ā
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Reyna Tropical
Wednesday 2 July 2025
Reyna Tropical is led by guitarist, singer, songwriter and producer Fabiola Reyna (founder of She Shreds Media). Investigating landscapes of the tropical diaspora, Reyna Tropical is a musical exploration of intuition, transition, connection...
South Manchester AOS - 42nd Street
Wednesday 2 - Saturday 5 July 2025
South Manchester AOS, the company who brought 'OLIVER!', 'GYPSY', 'GREASE', 'CHICAGO' and 'PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT' to the Z-ARTS stage are back to celebrate their 70th anniversary with this epic Broadway fairytale. First staged on Br...
Clueless - 30th Anniversary (12A)
Wednesday 2 July 2025
Clueless is 30? As if!Celebrate one of the 90s greatest teen movies, and a pitch perfect satire of Beverly Hills yuppies, as the iconic Cher Horowitz returns to the big screen in a catalogue of the finest outfits known to cinema history. Ch...
Art Stars (Reception - Year 2)
Wednesday 2 - 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...
Tenor Martin Toal's Summer Variety Concert
Thursday 3 July 2025
Back by popular demand TENOR MARTIN TOAL'S SUMMER VARIETY CONCERTINCLUDING FAVOURITE SONGS, MUSIC & DANCE FROM THE WORLD OF OPERA & MUSICAL THEATRE, AND INCLUDING A ROUSING SINGALONG LAST NIGHT OF THE PROMS FINALE. Following his 2024 sell-o...
Nanna Mo's Botox and Bum Lifts
Thursday 3 July 2025
From MaD Theatre Company, the producers of "Nanna's OnlyFans Film", "Nanna Mo's Botox and Bum Lifts" promises to be a hilarious look at how the baby boomer generation is trying to keep up with the modern world. After doing an online course ...
First Thursday Comedy
Thursday 3 July - Thursday 2 October 2025
Comedy in a Van present anĀ hilarious evening of top quality comedy on the first Thursday of every month. Click for acts on specific dates. ...
Lowry Youth Dance Project
Thursday 3 - Thursday 10 July 2025
Calling young people aged 9-16 who love to move!Ā Take part in this inspiring dance project to develop your dance ability and unleash your artistic creativity.Ā Experience how dancers train at Lowry.Ā All genders and abilities welcome!Ā In ...
The Bridgewater Hall Building Tour
Thursday 3 - Sunday 6 July 2025
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...
Strength Body And Mind
Thursday 3 July - Saturday 25 October 2025
The Strength Body and Mind Class is ideal for anyone looking to build physical strength while also calming the mind....
Lee Mead
Friday 4 July 2025
Lee Mead, star of Television and award winning West End leading man, is back for 2025! Lee shot to fame in 2007 on the BBC reality TV show 'Any Dream Will Do'. Beating 10,000 other hopefuls in the live finals to be crowned as Joseph in Andr...
Paul Smith of Maximo Park in Conversation
Friday 4 July 2025
BBC 6 Music's Chris Hawkins hosts a special evening with Paul Smith. The pair will sit down to explore the last two decades, looking at how with Maximo Park, Smith pushed the boundaries of British guitar music. With eight Maximo Park albums...
The Library of Enchantment
Friday 4 July - Monday 29 December 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 ...
Buckley Theatre School - Something About This Night
Friday 4 - Sunday 6 July 2025
Buckley Theatre School present Something about this Night! A dazzling celebration of talent from their amazing students! This event showcases the hard work, creativity, and passion of dancers, singers and actors of all ages. Expect vibrant ...
Altrincham Garrick Play Reading Club
Friday 4 July - Friday 5 December 2025
If you like theatre... no, if you love theatre, drama, comedy, musical theatre, play reading, poetry and much more and would relish the opportunity to meet new people, then the new 'Altrincham Garrick Play Reading Club' is for you. Here is ...
Playreading Sessions
Friday 4 July - Friday 5 December 2025
HOME's popular Playreading groupĀ 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...
As the Tide Comes In (CTBA)
Friday 4 July 2025
The 27 residents of the tiny island of Mand? are used to severe weather and flooding, but climate change is making things worse and serious catastrophe looms. Yet the island's last farmer, Gregers, whose family has lived there for eight gen...
MISS CHIEF CABARET: Sandras Hen Do
Friday 4 - Saturday 5 July 2025
Miss Chief is BACK with an amazing season of shows for the Manchester rodents, this 2025. Located at Feel Good Club, Hilton Street....
Hacienda Classical
Saturday 5 July 2025
Hacienda Classical makes its record-breaking eight Castlefield Bowl homecoming with Graeme Park, Manchester Camerata and special guests, including David Morales alongside Peter Hook on the DJ line-up. Performing orchestral renditions of muc...
Boy Toy Bottomless Brunch
Saturday 5 July - 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...
Family Art Stars
Saturday 5 - Saturday 19 July 2025
Families that learn together, grow together. We are very excited to continue our Family Art Stars sessions every Saturday! Come down, muck in and make some art as a family, spending quality time and learning new techniques. No skill is requ...
