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
Tue 16 Dec 2025 - Sun 25 Jan 2026
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...Aladdin
Stockport Plaza, Stockport
Monday 15 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...The Best Movies in Cinemas & Streaming
Manchester Multiple Venues, Manchester
Monday 15 - 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...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...All That Heaven Allows (U)
HOME, Manchester
Monday 15 - 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...moviEscape - SAWtopsy
Moviescape Stockport, Manchester
Monday 15 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
Monday 15 - 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
Monday 15 - 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
Monday 15 - 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
Monday 15 - 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
Monday 15 - 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
Monday 15 - 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...Lurker (15)
HOME, Manchester
Monday 15 - 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
Monday 15 - 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...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...Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (12A)
HOME, Manchester
Monday 15 - 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 ?...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)
The Peer Hat, Manchester
Monday 15 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......The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe
Lowry, Salford
Tuesday 16 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
Tuesday 16 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
Tuesday 16 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
Tuesday 16 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 Holiday In Concert - The Film with Live Orchestra
The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Tuesday 16 - 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
Tuesday 16 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
Tuesday 16 - 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
Tuesday 16 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
Tuesday 16 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
Tuesday 16 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...Cinderella (SNP)
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Tuesday 16 - 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...An Immersive Screening of The Nightmare Before Christmas
Albert Hall, Manchester
Tuesday 16 December 2025
hat's this? What's this? There's magic in the air on the 16th of December, as we get ready for the festive season with Jack Skellington and co as Halloween Town comes to life with an immersive screening of The Nightmare Before Christmas! S...Jack Off The Beanstalk
Hope Mill Theatre, Manchester
Tuesday 16 - 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...Tiny Tim
Contact, Manchester
Tuesday 16 December 2025
Tiny Tim isn't a retelling. It's a rebellion. Dickens' A Christmas Carol gave us a boy defined by pity - but now Tim refuses to stay small. Bold, funny, and unapologetic, this reimagining from unapologetic disabled-led performance grou...Adventures in Wonderland
Z-arts, Manchester
Tuesday 16 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...The XS Malarkey Christmas Quiz Party Thing
53two, Manchester
Tuesday 16 December 2025
Since 1997 XS Malarkey has been a Manchester institution, with compere Toby Hadoke bringing you the very best comedians at the lowest prices. But at the end of the year, we like to do something a bit different. The whole XS gang have emerge...Cheadle Hulme School Christmas Concert
RNCM, Manchester
Tuesday 16 December 2025
An evening of music from the students of Cheadle Hulme School. ...Gone Too Far (12A) + discussion
HOME, Manchester
Tuesday 16 December 2025
London teenager Yemi risks losing the small amount of street cred he has thanks to the arrival of his estranged big brother from Nigeria. Ikudayisi?s terrible fashion sense, broad Yoruba accent and misplaced confidence with the opposite sex...Dear Claudette: A Tale of Fame Filth and Scandal (16 December)
The Peer Hat, Manchester
Tuesday 16 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......To Each Their Own Cinema Presents: The 400 Blows
Eagle Inn, Salford
Tuesday 16 December 2025
Our final screening of 2025... and for a few months as we take a little break....The Holiday Cinema Night
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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...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...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. ...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...Dear Claudette: A Tale of Fame Filth and Scandal (17 December)
