FAMILY EVENTS IN MANCHESTER
FAMILY EVENTS IN MANCHESTER
Most Popular Family Events in Manchester
Thu 26 Mar - Tue 28 Apr 2026
Tue 3 Dec 2024 - Sun 12 Jan 2025
Sat 14 Dec 2024 - Sun 5 Jan 2025
Fri 22 Nov 2024 - Sun 5 Jan 2025
Wed 9 Apr - Sat 17 May 2025
Tue 29 Jul - Sun 3 Aug 2025
Fri 6 Dec 2024 - Sun 5 Jan 2025
The 100 Story Hotel
Friday 22 November - Tuesday 31 December 2024
Created with bestselling, multi-award-winning author and illustrator Rob Biddulph and Discover Children's Story Centre. This interactive world of play and storytelling has something for everyone aged 1-8 and their families. Hello and welc...
The Jungle Book
Friday 22 November 2024 - Sunday 5 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...
Jurassic World - The Exhibition
Friday 22 November 2024 - Sunday 12 January 2025
Welcome to Jurassic World Get closer to dinosaurs than ever before at Jurassic World: The Exhibition! Based on one of the biggest blockbusters in cinema history, the exhibition will immerse audiences of all ages in scenes of the beloved mov...
Alice in Wonderland
Friday 22 November - 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 Library of Enchantment
Friday 22 November - Tuesday 31 December 2024
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 ...
The Lowry Dance & Drama Workshops
Friday 22 November 2024 - Thursday 31 July 2025
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...
Santa Special
Saturday 23 November - Tuesday 24 December 2024
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas! Treat the family to an enchanting voyage through the magical Irwell Valley, kick start your Christmas on one of our famous Santa Specials! There's more family friendly fun, colourful characters a...
COMEDYSPORTZ
Saturday 23 November 2024 - Saturday 22 February 2025
You've seen football. You've seen tennis. But have you seen Comedy as a sport? Then you don't want to miss this all ages, all action, all improvised competitive comedy show! Two teams battle it out for laughs with quick-witted gags, games, ...
Sleeping Beauty - Middleton's Christmas Panto 2024
Tuesday 26 November - 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 pricking h...
Home Alone in Concert - The Film with Live Orchestra
Friday 29 November 2024
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...
I Wish
Friday 29 November - Sunday 8 December 2024
Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's that glittering like a disco ball? Gurl, that's Effie-fabulous Fairy Godmother of fairytale fame! After centuries of making wishes come true, she's marking the milestone of her brumblefillionth wish with a ...
Gorilla Circus - RPM
Saturday 30 November 2024
A mesmeric new show combining exhilarating acrobatics, adrenaline-pumping street dance and breath-taking roller skating, set on a giant moving treadmill! RPM explores the tragic, comic and absurd aspects of modern society, unravelling untol...
The Hallé - Christmas Family Concert
Sunday 1 December 2024
A festive adventure for all the family! It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year! Gather the family, grab your jingle bells (a bunch of keys works too) and head on down to The Bridgewater Hall for a morning of festive fun with the Halle. Pr...
The Bear
Sunday 1 - 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 ...
Chetham's Schools Concerts - Revolting Rhymes
Monday 2 - Thursday 5 December 2024
You might think you know the story of Little Red Riding Hood, but this musical adaption of Roald Dahl's wicked Revolting Rhymes turns this classic woodland tale into a cheeky, riotous adventure. Performed by musicians from Chetham's...
Wicked
Tuesday 3 December 2024 - Sunday 12 January 2025
Wicked the Musical the smash-hit musical that tells the incredible untold story of the Witches of Oz, is "the must-see wonder of the West End" (Andrew Pierce, LBC Radio) Based on the best‐selling novel by Gregory Maguire that ingeniously ...
Little Reads
Tuesday 3 December 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...
Snowstorm ‘Firebird' Spectacular Ice Show at The Trafford Centre
Friday 6 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...
A Christmas Carol - The Musical
Friday 6 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,...
Miracle on 34th Street
Friday 6 - 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
Friday 6 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...
Jack & The Beanstalk
Friday 6 December 2024 - Sunday 5 January 2025
Our festive show for 2024/25 is our pantomime Jack & The Beanstalk ! 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...
Carols from Kantos
Saturday 7 December 2024
Follow the Star... This festive season, join Kantos to share the joy of Christmas as we follow the star, wherever it goes! On this journey we will track the steps of the three wise men, stop by woods on a snowy evening, tread the road to re...
Chetham’s Family Concert - Revolting Rhymes
Saturday 7 December 2024
You might think you know the story of Little Red Riding Hood, but this musical adaption of Roald Dahl's wicked Revolting Rhymes turns this classic woodland tale into a cheeky, riotous adventure. Performed by musicians from Chetham's...
The Golden Princess
Saturday 7 December 2024
Melo, the strange, one legged musician, sits alone by the sea, content in his world and playing the most beautiful music. But who comes here? A golden carriage bearing a Princess so beautiful that she wears a golden mask to hide her blindin...
The Muppet Christmas Carol In Concert
Sunday 8 December 2024
Back by popular demand, Disney's much loved 1992 musical comedy The Muppet Christmas Carol returns to The Bridgewater Hall, the beloved festive movie brought to life by a talented orchestra performing its musical score live in time with the...
Stick Man
Tuesday 10 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...
Disney On Ice - Road Trip Adventures
Wednesday 11 - Sunday 15 December 2024
Exciting twists and turns await as Mickey Mouse and his Disney friends embark on a wild ride with unexpected hijinks and magic at every turn when Disney On Ice presents Road Trip Adventures skates into your hometown! Embark on a wild ride t...
The Totally Improvised Pantomime
Wednesday 11 December 2024
Bored of the same pantomimes every year? The ComedySportz team are back this Christmas for more Totally Improvised Pantomimes! Heroes, villains, songs and silliness are guaranteed this December as the gang create brand-new pantomime adventu...
Rudolph the Reindeer's Red Nose Roadshow
Thursday 12 - 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...
Cinderella
Saturday 14 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...
The Totally Improvised Pantomime
Saturday 14 December 2024
Bored of the same pantomimes every year? The ComedySportz team are back this Christmas for more Totally Improvised Pantomimes! Heroes, villains, songs and silliness are guaranteed this December as the gang create brand-new pantomime adventu...
Jurassic World - The Exhibition
Tuesday 17 - Thursday 19 December 2024
Welcome to Jurassic World Get closer to dinosaurs than ever before at Jurassic World: The Exhibition! Based on one of the biggest blockbusters in cinema history, the exhibition will immerse audiences of all ages in scenes of the beloved mov...
The Totally Improvised Pantomime
Tuesday 17 December 2024
Bored of the same pantomimes every year? The ComedySportz team are back this Christmas for more Totally Improvised Pantomimes! Heroes, villains, songs and silliness are guaranteed this December as the gang create brand-new pantomime adventu...
Little Penguin's First Christmas
Friday 20 - Tuesday 24 December 2024
From the company that brought you the sell-out productions of Snowbabies! and Aleena's Garden, Little Penguin's First Christmas is an immersive, festive experience for babies aged 0-36 months and their grown-ups! Filled with puppetry, origi...
A Christmas Carol Performed by Gerald Charles Dickens
Friday 20 December 2024
The original Christmas Carol and the best! No other show in the country has a direct descendant of Charles Dickens playing the lead role. Gerald Charles Dickens is none other than the great great grandson of Charles Dickens. We all kn...
Opera North - Cinderella
Saturday 21 December 2024
The much-loved fairy tale, but not quite as you know it... A fun, family-friendly magical adventure where fate and love triumph all! Led by a cast of professional opera singers and musicians, this interactive and relaxed concert encou...
The Royal Ballet - The Nutcracker (12A)
Sunday 22 December 2024
The Royal Ballet and Opera returns to the big screen for its Cinema Season 2024/25 with Peter Wright's much-loved production, featuring gorgeous period designs by Julia Trevelyan Oman, which keeps true to the spirit of this festive ballet c...
Jonathan Cohen - Christmas Carol Singalong
Tuesday 24 December 2024
Sing your heart out as irrepressible showman Jonathan Cohen returns to lead you through another fun-filled extravaganza of his most-loved carols and all time Christmas hits with guest singer Louise Dearman. This festive favourite from Raym...
Little Penguin's First Christmas
Saturday 28 December 2024 - Sunday 5 January 2025
From the company that brought you the sell-out productions of Snowbabies! and Aleena's Garden, Little Penguin's First Christmas is an immersive, festive experience for babies aged 0-36 months and their grown-ups! Filled with puppetry, origi...
Pop Princesses
Saturday 18 January 2025
This is the children's pop concert with a big difference. A musical spectacular starring four fabulous Fairy tale Princesses who just love to sing! It's the perfect mix. Featuring a soundtrack of top pop hits from artists such as Little Mix...
Animal Farm
Wednesday 22 January - Saturday 1 February 2025
A powerful re-telling of George Orwell's chilling and timeless classic. When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master and take over, they imagine it is the beginning of a life of freedom and equality for all. However ove...
Crafty Fools - Adventures in Science
Sunday 26 January 2025
Seriously Silly Science for All Ages Join 'The Magical Mr West' on an incredible adventure into the world of science! Aided by his corvid companion Crowbert and a collection of curious contraptions, Mr West demonstrates the fundamental prin...
Sing-a-Long-a The Greatest Showman
Thursday 30 January 2025
Sing-a-Long-a Productions, producers of Sing-a-Long-a Sound of Music and Sing-a-Long-a Grease brings you their newest show, the smash hit film musical that everyone can't stop singing - The Greatest Showman! Look out 'cause here it com...
Floella Benjamin's Coming To England
Wednesday 5 - Monday 10 February 2025
An inspirational story of hope, determination and triumph Floella Benjamin's award-winning and iconic book Coming to England comes to life in this joyful stage adaptation with music, storytelling and song. Much loved by children and familie...
Hold On To Your Butts
Wednesday 12 - Saturday 15 February 2025
65 million years ago, dinosaurs ruled the Earth... 30 years ago, a movie about dinosaurs ruled the box office... Hold On To Your Butts is a must see "shot-for-shot" parody of the greatest dinosaur film of all time. After selling out in New ...
Horrible Histories - Awful Egyptians
Thursday 13 - Saturday 15 February 2025
So it's time to prepare yourselves for an amazing show with Horrible Histories live on stage! Using actors and eye-popping 3D special effects, these astounding shows are guaranteed to thrill you and your children. Historical figures and eve...
Horrible Histories - Terrible Tudors
Thursday 13 - Saturday 15 February 2025
We all want to meet people from history. The trouble is everyone is dead! So it's time to prepare yourselves for Terrible Tudors live on stage! From the horrible Henries to the end of evil Elizabeth, hear the legends (and the lies!) about t...
Sing-a-Long-a Encanto
Saturday 15 February 2025
Gather la Familia! It's time to celebrate something truly Magical. From the producers of Sing-a-Long-a Sound of Music and Sing-a-Long-a Frozen the brand new smash hit film musical of 2021 about the Family Madigral with lyrics on screen that...
Richard Jones - An Evening of Magic
Saturday 15 February 2025
Richard Jones rose to fame as the only magician to ever win Britain's Got Talent and has since won the prestigious Gold Star accolade within the Inner Magic Circle, the highest honour in The Magic Circle. Known as "The Military Illusionist"...
The Detective Dog
Monday 17 - Thursday 20 February 2025
Tiny & Tall Productions, formerly Tessa Bide Productions, brings you Julia Donaldson and Sara Ogilvie's well-loved story, The Detective Dog on stage for Deaf and hearing family audiences. Whether it's finding a lost shoe or discovering who ...
