Most Popular Theatre in Manchester
Thu 26 Mar - Tue 28 Apr 2026
Wed 20 Aug - Sat 4 Oct 2025
Sun 2 Feb 2025 - Wed 18 Feb 2026
Wed 30 Apr - Sat 8 Nov 2025
Wed 9 Apr - Sat 17 May 2025
Giovanni Pernice - The Last Dance
Sunday 26 January 2025
Strictly Come Dancing professional Giovanni Pernice returns in 2025 with his tour 'The Last Dance'. The 2021 Strictly champion and BAFTA winner will be taking to the stage once again with his company of world class performers. Giovanni, the...
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Sunday 26 January 2025
The virtuoso ventriloquist, BAFTA nominee and British Comedy Award winner is back on tour with a new show, Whose Face is it Anyway? London-born Nina Conti (and Monkey) has regularly sold out shows all over the world with her widely acclaim...
The Best Movies in Cinemas & Streaming
Sunday 26 January - 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...
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...
Sathnam Sanghera - How British Imperialism Has Shaped the Globe
Sunday 26 January 2025
imes columnist and multi-award-winning author and historian, Sathnam Sanghera revealed how Empire continues to shape life in Britain today in his ground-breaking work, Empireland. Now, he joins us LIVE to explore its lasting impact on t...
The Bridgewater Hall Building Tour with BSL
Sunday 26 January - Thursday 3 April 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...
RNCM Brass Band
Sunday 26 January 2025
Established during the 1990s by brass innovator Howard Snell, the RNCM Brass Band has always been a flagship ensemble of the institution. Geographically the RNCM is ideally placed in Manchester for brass band students and it boasts a teachi...
A Complete Unknown (15)
Sunday 26 - Thursday 30 January 2025
★★★ Timothee Chalamet is brilliant and believable in James Mangold's conventional Dylan biopic. ~ BBC. --- Timothee Chalamet stars as Bob Dylan in the ballad of a true original. A Film by James Mangold. Co-starring Edward Norton, El...
HOME Film Pass
Sunday 26 January - Wednesday 31 December 2025
See everything everywhere (almost all at once) with the new HOME Film Pass! Experience new releases at HOME, any time, as many times as you like for one monthly price. For just £18 you'll also get a range of perks to make the most of your ...
Maria (12A)
Sunday 26 - Thursday 30 January 2025
★★★★ An on-song Angelina Jolie fronts this stirring biopic about opera singer Maria Callas. ~ Radio Times. --- From acclaimed director Pablo Larrain - director of Jackie and Spencer - Maria tells the tumultuous, beautiful, and ...
PUSH Festival
Sunday 26 January - Saturday 8 February 2025
PUSH Festival returns to HOME for their biennial celebration of North West creative talent. Over two weeks, HOME's stages, screens and spaces will be dedicated to showcasing fantastic works from around the region, as well as offering oppor...
Waiting for Godot
Sunday 26 January 2025
Accepted as one of the most significant plays of the 20th century, Samuel Beckett's tragic comedy about the meaning of life and the absurdity of existence is brought to the stage by Altrincham Garrick, directed by Celia Bonner. Two wanderi...
Discounted Cineworld Cinema Tickets
Sunday 26 January - Wednesday 31 December 2025
Buy your Cineworld cinema tickets in Manchester at a reduced price: "Group 1 Tickets" from only £5.49 (saving up to £1.50 per ticket): Cineworld Bolton - [click here]--- "Group 2 Tickets" from only £8.99 (saving up to £4 per ticke...
Discounted Odeon Cinema Tickets
Sunday 26 January - Wednesday 31 December 2025
A must for film buffs, treat yourself to any movie, on any day, at any time at Odeon Cinemas in Manchester for a fantastically cheap price: From £6.99 Monday to Thursday (saving up to £6 per ticket), or £8.99 any day of the week ...
Discounted Vue Cinema Tickets
Sunday 26 January 2025 - Sunday 4 January 2026
A must for film buffs, treat yourself to any movie, on any day, at any time at Vue Cinemas in Manchester for a fantastically cheap price: "Yellow Tickets" from only £6.50: Vue Manchester Printworks - [click here]Vue Manchester Red Q...
The Stockport Music Story In Conversation with Peter Tattersall
Sunday 26 January 2025
The founder of the iconic Strawberry Recording Studios in Stockport talks to Dr Peter Wadsworth about creating 'the Abbey Road of the North'. This is a rare opportunity to be part of the audience in an intimate chat between Peter Tattersall...
Brass Bands England Discussion
Sunday 26 January 2025
Brass Bands England supports and promotes brass bands by fostering community engagement, sharing resources, and increasing public understanding of their value. They provide access to funding, training, and resources in key areas like market...
A Real Pain (18)
Sunday 26 - Thursday 30 January 2025
★★★★ Jesse Eisenberg writes, directs and stars in a film that manages to be ruefully perceptive and laugh-out-loud funny, often at the same time. ~ The Telegraph. --- "One of the best films of the year." Written, directed by and s...
Babygirl (18)
Sunday 26 - Thursday 30 January 2025
★★★★ Nicole Kidman stuns as a botoxed CEO in a steamy thriller. ~ The Times. --- From writer/director Halina Reijn and starring Nicole Kidman, Harris Dickinson, Antonio Banderas, and Sophie Wilde. A high-powered CEO puts her career...
Imitation of Life (12A)
Sunday 26 January 2025
★★★★★ One of cinema's defining melodramas. ~ Radio Times. --- The story of the relationships between a star (Lana Turner), her maid (Juanita Moore), and their daughters is one of Douglas Sirk's most impressive late Hollywood melo...
Nosferatu (15)
Sunday 26 - Thursday 30 January 2025
★★★★ Nosferatu delivers a relatively straight re-telling of this classic gothic tale. It looks and sounds stunning and is packed with vampiric horror. It doesn't push many boundaries but if you wanted the classic Dracula narrative f...
Presence (15)
Sunday 26 - Thursday 30 January 2025
★★★★ Steven Soderbergh's first-person experiment is a gamble that pays off massively. This is an eerie family drama that turns the horror genre inside out and infuses it with greater empathy. ~ Empire. --- From the director of Sex,...
The Brutalist (18)
Sunday 26 - Thursday 30 January 2025
★★★★★ Adrien Brody and Felicity Jones star in a majestic historical epic from the director Brady Corbet. This may be the film to beat at the Oscars. ~ The Times. --- Brady Corbet's staggering epic, starring Adrien Brody, Felicity...
The Girl With the Needle (15)
Sunday 26 - Thursday 30 January 2025
★★★★ Set in the shadowy aftermath of the First World War, this scorching and dark horrific drama draws on a grim true story from Denmark's past. ~ The Telegraph. --- Magnus von Horn's gothic Cannes selection, starring Vic Carmen Son...
The National Lottery's Big Night of Musicals
Monday 27 January 2025
It's back! The National Lottery's Big Night of Musicals is returning to the AO Arena Manchester on 27th January 2025. The musical theatre-infused concert sees Jason Manford return as host with the show usually aired later on television and...
Carlos Acosta's Nutcracker in Havana
Monday 27 - Tuesday 28 January 2025
A Cuban take on the favourite festive classic, Carlos Acosta's brand-new production Nutcracker in Havana explodes onto the stage, featuring new choreography by Carlos Acosta CBE performed by more than 20 dancers from his Cuban company, Acos...
Giovanni Pernice - The Last Dance
Monday 27 January 2025
Strictly Come Dancing professional Giovanni Pernice returns in 2025 with his tour 'The Last Dance'. The 2021 Strictly champion and BAFTA winner will be taking to the stage once again with his company of world class performers. Giovanni, the...
Bad Science
Monday 27 - Tuesday 28 January 2025
Darkly satirical and fast paced, Bad Science is a cautionary tale of what happens when a discipline of care morphs into one of control. Three authoritarian, yet incompetent, politicians are tasked with creating a new psychiatric diagnos...
Architecton (U)
Monday 27 - Thursday 30 January 2025
★★★ An immersive and imposing meditation on concrete and stone, Victor Kossakovsky's documentary offers awesome drone-shot sequences of wrecked and ruined buildings, but could have been constructed more solidly. ~ The Guardian. --- T...
Floridita Dance - Free Salsa Taster Class
Monday 27 January - Monday 31 March 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...
Nickel Boys (12A)
Monday 27 - Wednesday 29 January 2025
★★★★★ A shatteringly powerful movie about abuse, this adaptation of Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer prizewinning novel is told completely through point-of-view shots of its two protagonists. It deserves Oscar attention. ~ The Times....
The Illusionist (PG)
Monday 27 January 2025
★★★★ Bittersweet, moving and utterly beautiful: a love letter to cinema and to Scotland. ~ Empire. --- A script for "L'illusionniste" was originally written by French comedy genius and cinema legend Jacques Tati as a love letter fr...
NOW That's What I Call A Musical
Tuesday 28 January - Saturday 1 February 2025
Celebrating 40 years of iconic and chart-topping compilation albums, this brand-new musical comedy has an unbeatable 80s soundtrack and show-stopping direction and choreography by Strictly Come Dancing's Craig Revel Horwood. This is an even...
Animal Farm
Tuesday 28 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...
Ben Elton
Tuesday 28 January 2025
Ben Elton, the undisputed godfather of modern stand-up is going back on the road with his new show - Authentic Stupidity. Ben first exploded into the national consciousness back in the 1980's, hosting Channel 4's ground breaking Saturday Li...
What is Love to a Goddess?
Tuesday 28 - Wednesday 29 January 2025
Medea wants only what she's owed: dominion over all Greece. She only desires what she's due: the unquestioning devotion of the man she loves. In this scratch performance, Maz Hedgehog plays Medea, excited for the life she's about to begin w...
Workshop: Holiday Once a Month with Jenny Gaskell
Tuesday 28 January 2025
A workshop exploring the power of declaring a holiday as a tool for survival. In the face of navigating difficult political landscapes, personal health or the general anxiety of living in the world as it is, this workshop will discuss h...
Floridita Dance - Free Bachata Taster Class
Tuesday 28 January - Tuesday 25 March 2025
Ever wanted to learn Bachata but never danced before? Now's your chance! Start with Floridita Dance's FREE taster class designed just for absolute beginners. No partner required. After that, you can keep growing your skills through their co...
The Lowry Dance & Drama Workshops
Tuesday 28 January - 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...
Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter (15)
Tuesday 28 January 2025
★★★ A bright and breezy blend of horror, comedy, swashbuckler and Italian western - a fun fear-frolic that became an instant Hammer cult. ~ Radio Times. --- Starring Horst Janson and Hammer glamour icon Caroline Munro, the 1974 cult c...
Vermiglio (15)
Tuesday 28 - Thursday 30 January 2025
★★★★ Maura Delpero's beautifully-made drama explores the complex dynamics of a sprawling family near the wartime border with Germany. ~ The Guardian. --- Italy's Official Selection for the 2025 Academy Awards. The lush and breathtak...
A Community Seen/ Manchester&8217;s Communities on Screen
Tuesday 28 January 2025
Join us for A Community Seen, HOME?s quarterly film programme giving space to local community groups, charities and voluntary organisations, as well as filmmakers with socially engaged practice at the centre of their work....
Buffy Revamped
Wednesday 29 January - Saturday 1 February 2025
Fresh from a smash-hit run at Edinburgh Fringe, this fast-paced new production from comedian Brendan Murphy - whose last show, Friend: The One with Gunther, recently won the award for Best Play in the World Wide Comedy Awards - brings y...
Dan and Phil
Wednesday 29 - Thursday 30 January 2025
YouTubers Dan and Phil are back to heal your inner child and take back what the internet took from them. In their new screamingly hilarious live stage show, Terrible Influence, it's a new era. They're older, gayer, Phil's gone blonde, and n...
Jason Fox - Life at The Limit
Wednesday 29 January 2025
Ex-special forces soldier, star of TV's SAS: Who Dares Wins, Inside The Real Narcos and author of The Number One Bestseller Battle Scars; Jason Fox will bring to the stage and on tour for the first time the remarkable story of his daring ex...
Jim Davidson
Wednesday 29 January 2025
In the ever-evolving book of British comedy, highly controversial former TV star Jim Davidson OBE remains a best-seller, writing new chapters of hilarity that captivate capacity audiences year after year, with a "gripping tale where free...
Dementia Street
Wednesday 29 - Thursday 30 January 2025
When his mum's battle with dementia ended, Manchester comedian Smug Roberts wanted to contribute something to the fight against it, so he wrote a one man play about the seven stages of her cognitive decline. As someone who has personally...
RNCM Opera Scenes
Wednesday 29 - Friday 31 January 2025
FREE EVENT. RNCM vocal and conducting students present excerpts from some of opera's greatest moments in this free series of staged scenes. A perfect way to feed your curiosity! Click on tickets link for the perfromers and excerpts presente...
