Most Popular Christmas in Manchester
Thu 26 Dec 2024 - Sun 5 Jan 2025
Fri 27 Dec 2024 - Sat 4 Jan 2025
Fri 27 Dec 2024 - Sun 5 Jan 2025
Thu 26 Dec 2024 - Sun 5 Jan 2025
Fri 27 Dec 2024 - Sun 5 Jan 2025
Fri 27 Dec 2024 - Sun 5 Jan 2025
Snowstorm ‘Firebird' Spectacular Ice Show at The Trafford Centre
Thursday 26 December 2024 - Sunday 5 January 2025
After 3 sell out years SNOWSTORM, Manchester's favourite Ice Show returns with a sensational new show "Firebird", A Winter Spectacle of Ice and Circus. Experience the magic of Firebird a captivating winter show that combines the elegance of...
Cinderella
Thursday 26 December 2024 - Sunday 5 January 2025
Comedy Superstar Jason Manford is BACK for a 3rd year of panto at the Opera House as Prince Charming! Jason is joined by Manchester panto favourite Ben Nickless, who returns for another year of fun as the hilarious Buttons, alongside star o...
Miracle on 34th Street
Thursday 26 - Tuesday 31 December 2024
Join HOME for a festive musical this Christmas! A major New York department store is on the brink of collapse and their upcoming Christmas sale has to be a success. When their Santa quits at the last minute they're left with a kindhearted s...
Sleeping Beauty
Thursday 26 December 2024 - Sunday 5 January 2025
Let us Magically Awaken Your Dreams this Christmas with the North West's premier Family Pantomime: Sleeping Beauty starring TV favourite WENDI PETERS as Carabosse the Wicked Fairy with SCOTT GALLAGHER and Full Supporting Cast. Join us for a...
Rapunzel - A Tangled Tale
Thursday 26 - Tuesday 31 December 2024
Get ready for a hair raising adventure as Polka Dot Pantomimes and The Albert Halls proudly present RAPUNZEL - A Tangled Tale! Back by popular demand Coronation Street Legend VICKY ENTWISTLE stars as Mother Gothel (she's back - but this t...
Sleeping Beauty - Middleton's Christmas Panto
Thursday 26 - Monday 30 December 2024
This Christmas, you're invited to the pantomime of your dreams, Sleeping Beauty at Middleton Arena. Once upon a time, in a Pantoland far away, a beautiful Princess is cursed by the evil Carabosse to perish on her 21st birthday by prickin...
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Thursday 26 December 2024 - Sunday 12 January 2025
Maureen Nolan and Coronation Street's Emrhys Cooper are set to head a stellar cast in St Helens Theatre Royal's fantastic festive family show this Christmas. Pop legend and West End star Maureen will play the Wicked Queen while Emrhys, who ...
The Bear
Thursday 26 - Sunday 29 December 2024
Ever wondered what it would be like to sit on a polar bear's lap? Or ride on its back? Have you ever tried to give a bear a bath? Or clear up its poo?! Looking after a bear is exhausting stuff. One night when she's fast asleep, an enormous ...
Alice in Wonderland
Friday 27 - Tuesday 31 December 2024
Follow the White Rabbit into the Cockpit Theatre next Christmas and be welcomed back to Wonderland! Everything is as Alice remembered... or is it? Let Shakespeare North whisk you away to Wonderland with this marvellously whimsical festive t...
The Jungle Book
Friday 27 December 2024 - Saturday 4 January 2025
A wild & wonderful adventure for Christmas 2024 Swing into the jungle this festive season and join man-cub Mowgli and his friends Baloo the bear, Bagheera the panther, a gang of mischievous monkeys and a pack of wily wolves in this enchanti...
A Christmas Carol - The Musical
Friday 27 December 2024 - Sunday 5 January 2025
The classic Dickens story comes to life with true broadway spectacle This Musical version is brought to you by Alan Menken (Disney's Beauty And The Beast The Little Mermaid and Newsies and Little Shop Of Horrors) and Lynn Ahrens (Ragtime,...
Stick Man
Friday 27 December 2024 - Sunday 5 January 2025
Touching, funny and utterly original, Freckle Productions' delightful adaptation of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler's Stick Man is back in town! What starts off as a morning jog becomes quite the misadventure for Stick Man: a dog wants t...
Jack and The Beanstalk (Altrincham Garrick Panto)
Friday 27 December 2024 - Sunday 5 January 2025
The Garrick Panto is back and full of FEE, FIE, FOE, FUN !! Young Jack, his daft-as-a-brush brother, Silly Simon, and his long-suffering mother, Dame Trott, live in a tiny cottage in the shadow of the terrible giant, Blunderbore. With th...
Rudolph the Reindeer's Red Nose Roadshow
Friday 27 - Monday 30 December 2024
This Christmas, everyone's favourite celebrity reindeer, Rudolph himself is bringing his Red Nose Roadshow to Bolton. From the same team that brought last year's sell-out hit Alfie the Elf, this show is a magical treat for primary school a...
Christmas Lights
Friday 27 - Monday 30 December 2024
With beautiful lights, original music, playful performance and integrated BSL, Christmas Lights will be sure to dazzle children aged 1-4 and their families. On a tiny house, covered in snow, colourful lights that twinkle and glow. Snow is f...
Mergaliyev Classical Ballet - The Nutcracker
Saturday 18 January 2025
The festive delights of The Nutcracker will charm audiences of all ages this New Year. When Clara is gifted a Nutcracker doll who magically comes to life, an enchanting adventure unfolds; a dramatic battle with the Mouse King ensues, and...
A Christmas Carol
Thursday 13 November 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...
Freaky Friday
Thursday 27 November - Wednesday 31 December 2025
Directed by Andy Fickman Book by Bridget Carpenter Music by Tom Kitt Lyrics by Brian Yorkey 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 genera...
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Saturday 6 December 2025 - Sunday 4 January 2026
Mirror, Mirror, on the wall, don't miss the fairest pantomime of them all! Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs will be spectacularly brought to life at Manchester's home of pantomime, with an abundance of comedy, sensational song and dance numb...