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My Beautiful Laundrette

The Lowry, Salford
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

Manchester Opera House, Manchester
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

Octagon Theatre, Bolton
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

Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester
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...

Coram Shakespeare Schools Festival

Contact, Manchester
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...

Lowry Workshops - Dance & Drama (Morning)

The Lowry, Salford
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...

Unravelling the Ribbon

Altrincham Garrick Playhouse, Altrincham
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...

National Theatre Live - The Motive and the Cue (15)

Middleton Arena, Manchester
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 ...

National Theatre Live - The Motive and the Cue (15)

HOME, Manchester
Thursday 21 - Saturday 23 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 ...

No More Mr Nice Guy

HOME, Manchester
Thursday 21 - Saturday 23 March 2024
A one-man show written and performed by Cal-I Jonel and directed by Ewa Dina, No More Mr Nice Guy explores the life of Keloughn Douglas; a people-pleasing teacher who hopes to become a successful musician. As he headlines his first gig he...

National Theatre Live - The Motive and the Cue (15)

Altrincham Garrick Playhouse, Altrincham
Saturday 23 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 ...

Discovering Antarctica: Heroic Tales of Shackleton, Crean & Scott

Waterside, Manchester
Tuesday 26 March 2024
Tom Crean, the intrepid Antarctic explorer and one of Ireland's unsung heroes, is brought to life in this dramatic and humorous solo performance by Aidan Dooley. Set during The Golden Age of Antarctic Exploration (1901-1916), discover the r...

Hedda

Contact, Manchester
Tuesday 2 - Saturday 6 April 2024
Experience a brand new version of Henrik Ibsen's classic Hedda Gabler written by Here to There Production's Artistic Director, Andrew Whittle. Arriving home after a long honeymoon Hedda struggles with coming to terms with marriage to a man ...

Cluedo 2 - The Next Chapter

The Lowry, Salford
Tuesday 2 - Saturday 6 April 2024
From the director of the global phenomenon, The Play that Goes Wrong and Cluedo -  this brand new whodunit brings murder, mystery, mayhem and whole heap of laughs for all the family! Set in the swinging 60s, Miss Scarlett, Colonel Mustard,...

Treasure Island (Easter Holidays)

Altrincham Garrick Playhouse, Altrincham
Wednesday 3 - Sunday 14 April 2024
Avast there, me hearties! It's time to set sail with the Altrincham Garrick Playhouse this Easter Holiday for an action-packed, swashbuckling adventure on the high seas to TREASURE ISLAND! It's a dark and stormy night. Jim, the inn-keeper'...

Houdini's Greatest Escape

Octagon Theatre, Bolton
Wednesday 3 - Saturday 6 April 2024
Harry Houdini is the world's greatest entertainer Just as his death-defying escapology stunts have him, and his wife Bess, on the cusp of a career-defining performance for King Edward, he finds himself framed for murder by a gang of crimina...

Bloody Mary: Live

HOME, Manchester
Thursday 4 - Friday 5 April 2024
A smart, irreverent blend of stand-up comedy and a one-woman show written and performed by Olivia Miller. She's bloody. She's Mary. She's LIVE! Teen Queen Mary Tudor takes to the mic to rehab her so-called "bloody" image in a gleefully vici...

FADE

The Lowry, Salford
Thursday 4 - Friday 5 April 2024
World Premiere Cassie: A sister Rubin: A brother Following the sudden death of their mother, estranged siblings Cassie and Rubin are reunited in their family home. As they begin packing up furniture and keepsakes, they start unpacking their...

The Importance Of Being... Earnest?

Stockport Plaza, Stockport
Friday 5 - Sunday 7 April 2024
Straight from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Say It Again, Sorry? presents The Importance of Being... Earnest? When a traditional production of Oscar Wilde's classic play gets underway, everything seems to be going perfectly to plan... that...

The Mousetrap

The Lowry, Salford
Monday 8 - Saturday 13 April 2024
Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap is the world's longest-running play. This thrilling West End production is THE genre-defining murder mystery from the best-selling novelist of all time... case closed! As news spreads of a murder in London, a...

Bouncers

Octagon Theatre, Bolton
Tuesday 9 - Saturday 20 April 2024
Don't miss this classic comedy and northern favourite! Join Les, Ralph, Judd and Lucky Eric as they relive a night in a Yorkshire disco in the 80s. The original Bouncers is back in town. Everyone will be here: the DJ, the girls, boys and th...

Do I Love You?

HOME, Manchester
Wednesday 10 - Saturday 13 April 2024
Why not join twenty somethings Sally, Nat and Kyle in this hilarious comedy written and directed by John Godber, the award-winning writer of "Bouncers", as they develop a love for, and the people involved with, Northern Soul. What started a...

National Theatre Live - The Motive and the Cue (15)

Stockport Plaza, Stockport
Wednesday 10 April 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 ...

The Haunting

Waterside, Manchester
Wednesday 10 April 2024
Conn Artists Theatre Company's gripping adaptation of some of Charles Dickens' most haunting works, based on his spine-tingling tales of the unexpected, will have you on the edge of your seat! In an ancient, crumbling mansion, two men stumb...

A Citizens' Assembly

HOME, Manchester
Tuesday 16 April 2024
We are the citizens! This is our assembly! We are the actors in this story!What are we doing about the climate emergency? What are we not doing? What more could we be doing? What more should we be doing?Be part of the story and join the deb...

Voices of Resilience - A Celebration of Gazan Writing

HOME, Manchester
Monday 22 April 2024
An evening of Palestinian writing with Kamila Shamsie, Maxine Peake, Kingsley Ben-Adir, and special guests. In the face of wholesale genocide, the resilience of Palestinians has, over the last six months, been an inspiration to artists and ...

National Theatre Live - Nye (12A)

HOME, Manchester
Tuesday 23 April 2024
Michael Sheen plays Nye Bevan in a surreal and spectacular journey through the life and legacy of the man who transformed Britain's welfare state and created the NHS.   Confronted with death, Aneurin 'Nye' Bevan's deepest memories lead h...

Black is the Color of My Voice

HOME, Manchester
Friday 26 - Saturday 27 April 2024
Inspired by the life of Nina Simone, Black Is The Color Of My Voice follows a successful jazz singer and civil rights activist seeking redemption after the untimely death of her father. She reflects on the journey that took her from a yo...

Sweat

Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester
Friday 26 April - Saturday 25 May 2024
A sweeping state-of-the-nation play that embraces huge political and economic ideas in a magnificent gritty social drama. Nottage's stunning writing pits friend against friend as social and racial tensions, once buried by a sense of solidar...

The Haunting of Blaine Manor

Stockport Plaza, Stockport
Friday 26 April 2024
Renowned American parapsychologist Doctor Roy Earle, famous for discrediting hauntings and exposing fake mediums, is invited to attend a seance in what is said to be the most haunted building in England, a building with a horrific history, ...

Jack's Ashes

Waterside, Manchester
Friday 26 April 2024
A new solo performance, made in development with The Australian Cricketers Association, written by Matt Banes and Tim Marriott, seeking to reduce stigma and open conversations about mental health in sport. Performed by Tim Marriott (BBC's T...

You're Bard!

Waterside, Manchester
Saturday 27 April 2024
This hilarious, unpredictable new show, featuring actors whose past experience includes the RSC, Bristol Old Vic, Cheltenham Everyman, Dubai and the West End promises an unforgettable evening of Shakespeare unlike anything you've ever seen ...

Silence

HOME, Manchester
Tuesday 30 April - Saturday 4 May 2024
Silence is a new play from Tara Theatre focused on communal storytelling - presenting a shared history inspired by the remarkable personal testimonies of people who lived through the last days of the British Raj. The 1947 partition of the ...

On Me

Waterside, Manchester
Thursday 2 May 2024
Written by Caroline Lamb and presented by Dangerous To Know Theatre Company, On Me follows Shona and Christian, two actors working on a "gritty" true crime docudrama. As the pair develop feelings for each other, they must navigate the chall...

Howerd's End

Hope Mill Theatre, Manchester
Friday 3 May 2024
Frankie Howerd was one of Britain's most loved comedians for half a century. But he had a secret. And the secret's name was Dennis. This hugely acclaimed play by Mark Farrelly (Quentin Crisp: Naked Hope, Jarman) takes you to the heart of F...

Altrincham Garrick Play Reading Club

Altrincham Garrick Playhouse, Altrincham
Friday 3 May - Friday 5 July 2024
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 ...

Divorced, Beheaded Died: An Audience with King Henry VIII

Waterside, Manchester
Sunday 5 May 2024
'The year is 1544 and King Henry, the Eighth of that name, is engaged upon Royal Progress about his Realm; and has halted here to afford his Loyal Subjects the opportunity to have 'audience' with their Sovereign Lord and King'. This one-man...

Dickens Theatre Company - Macbeth

Stockport Plaza, Stockport
Monday 6 - Tuesday 7 May 2024
Dickens Theatre Company present the Bard's bloodiest tragedy as part of their Revision on Tour programme, which comprises of four unique stage adaptations of compulsory GCSE texts touring theatres nationwide. This unique adaptation of the '...

The Father

Altrincham Garrick Playhouse, Altrincham
Monday 6 - Saturday 11 May 2024
he Father (Le Pere) is a play about a man called Andre. Now 80 years old, Andre was once a tap dancer. He lives with his daughter Anne and her husband Antoine. Or was he an engineer whose daughter Anne lives in London with her new l...

The Kite Runner

The Lowry, Salford
Tuesday 7 - Saturday 11 May 2024
Direct from Broadway, The Kite Runner, an outstanding and unforgettable theatrical tour de force is returning to the UK in 2024. Based on Khaled Hosseini's international bestselling novel, this haunting tale of friendship spans cultures and...

National Theatre Live - Nye (12A)

Middleton Arena, Manchester
Tuesday 7 May 2024
Michael Sheen plays Nye Bevan in a surreal and spectacular journey through the life and legacy of the man who transformed Britain's welfare state and created the NHS.   Confronted with death, Aneurin 'Nye' Bevan's deepest memories lead h...

Little Reads

Z-arts, Manchester
Tuesday 7 May - Tuesday 2 July 2024
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...

Dickens Theatre Company - Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde

Stockport Plaza, Stockport
Wednesday 8 May 2024
Dickens Theatre Company present an exciting new stage adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's Victorian gothic masterpiece as part of their Revision on Tour programme, which comprises of four unique stage adaptations of compulsory GCSE text...

Dickens Theatre Company - Romeo & Juliet

Stockport Plaza, Stockport
Thursday 9 May 2024
Dickens Theatre Company present an exciting adaptation of a classic GCSE English literature text as part of their Revision on Tour programme, which comprises of four unique stage adaptations of compulsory GCSE texts touring theatres nation...

Dante or Die - Kiss Marry Kill

Hallé St Peter's, Manchester
Friday 10 - Sunday 12 May 2024
Dante or Die Theatre Company present an electrifying and intimate story of love and redemption. Jay and Paul are both serving life sentences for homophobic murders. Incredibly, they fall in love and seek permission to marry. Inspired by rea...

National Theatre Live - Nye (12A)

Altrincham Garrick Playhouse, Altrincham
Sunday 12 May 2024
Michael Sheen plays Nye Bevan in a surreal and spectacular journey through the life and legacy of the man who transformed Britain's welfare state and created the NHS.   Confronted with death, Aneurin 'Nye' Bevan's deepest memories lead h...

Mind Mangler - Member of the Tragic Circle

Palace Theatre, Manchester
Wednesday 15 - Saturday 18 May 2024
Henry Lewis and Jonathan Sayer, the multi award-winning team behind the sold-out global smash hit The Play That Goes Wrong and the BBC TV series The Goes Wrong Show, star in this hilarious new comedy by Mischief. Join the "Mind Mangler" as...

Kay Mellor's The Syndicate

The Lowry, Salford
Friday 17 - Sunday 19 May 2024
Based on her hit BBC TV show that entertained millions of viewers over four series, The Syndicate is a new stage play by the legendary Kay Mellor, that follows five supermarket employees whose lottery syndicate numbers come in, just as thei...

The Audience

Altrincham Garrick Playhouse, Altrincham
Monday 20 - Saturday 25 May 2024
Altrincham Garrick Playhouse present this multi-award winning play by the acclaimed writer Peter Morgan ("The Queen" and Netflix's "The Crown"). Spanning sixty years from the 1950s through to the 21st century, Peter Morgan's The Audience ...

National Theatre Live - Nye (12A)

Stockport Plaza, Stockport
Tuesday 21 May 2024
Michael Sheen plays Nye Bevan in a surreal and spectacular journey through the life and legacy of the man who transformed Britain's welfare state and created the NHS.   Confronted with death, Aneurin 'Nye' Bevan's deepest memories lead h...
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