DRAMA PLAYS IN MANCHESTER
DRAMA PLAYS IN MANCHESTER
Most Popular Drama Plays in Manchester
Tina - The Tina Turner Musical
Palace Theatre
Tue 25 Nov 2025 - Sat 3 Jan 2026
Escaped Alone and What If If Only
Royal Exchange Theatre
Sat 1 - Sat 8 Mar 2025
Glorious!
Hope Mill Theatre, Manchester
Saturday 1 - Sunday 30 March 2025
Hope Mill Theatre Presents "GLORIOUS!" The True Story of Florence Foster Jenkins-The Worst Singer in the World. Written by Peter Quilter and Directed by Kirk Jameson "GLORIOUS!" will star Wendi Peters as Florence Foster Jenkins. Join ...Ghost Stories
Lowry, Salford
Saturday 1 March 2025
The long-running West End hit returns! When Professor Goodman, arch-sceptic out to debunk the paranormal, embarks on an investigation of three apparent hauntings - as recounted by a night-watchman, a teenage boy, and a businessman awaiting ...Escaped Alone and What If If Only
Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester
Saturday 1 - Saturday 8 March 2025
Director Sarah Frankcom returns to the Exchange with two short plays by Caryl Churchill, brought together in one evening of theatre. Escaped Alone "I'm walking down the street and there's a door in the fence open and inside there are three...Love's Labour's Lost (more or less)
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Saturday 1 - Saturday 22 March 2025
A brand-new comedy theatre show from Stephen Joseph Theatre, the team behind the UK Theatre Award-nominated The Comedy of Errors (more or less). A stag do in Ibiza. A hen do in Menorca, What could go wrong?... Everything! The stags have mad...Shirley Valentine
Octagon Theatre, Bolton
Saturday 1 - Saturday 8 March 2025
Be transported to sunny Greece with this beloved northern comedy! Mina Anwar reprises the title role in Willy Russell's heart-warming comedy following her acclaimed performance in our 2020 production. This will once again see Mina resetting...The Merchant of Venice 1936
Lowry, Salford
Saturday 1 March 2025
'THE PERFECT EXAMPLE OF HOW TO DO SHAKESPEARE' (Metro) Ambition, power and political unrest explode onto the stage in The Merchant of Venice 1936, direct from selling out the RSC and London's West End. Starring Tracy-Ann Oberman (EastEnders...Frozen Light - The Ancient Oak of Baldor
Lowry, Salford
Saturday 1 - Sunday 2 March 2025
A multi-sensory experience for audiences with profound and multiple learning disabilities and their companions, offering the chance to gather and experience the collective power of shared stories. Frozen Light Theatre welcomes you into thei...National Theatre Live - The Importance of Being Earnest (PG)
Altrincham Garrick, Altrincham
Sunday 2 March 2025
Showing as though live, on the big screen, three-time Olivier Award-winner Sharon D Clarke is joined by Ncuti Gatwa (Doctor Who; Sex Education) in this joyful reimagining of Oscar Wilde's most celebrated comedy. While assuming the role of a...imitating the dog - All Blood Runs Red
Lowry, Salford
Tuesday 4 March 2025
The extraordinary true life of Eugene Bullard. This is one of history's overlooked true stories. This is a name that should be known, a story that must be told. This is a story of hope. Runaway, circus entertainer, boxer, night club owner, ...Far From The Madding Crowd
Waterside, Manchester
Tuesday 4 March 2025
Thomas Hardy's masterpiece about love, class and gender roles is set against the rural landscape of Victorian England and is thrillingly brought to life in a new adaptation by the acclaimed Conn Artists Theatre Company, performed by an ense...Little Reads
Z-arts, Manchester
Tuesday 4 March - Tuesday 1 July 2025
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...On Me
Martin Harris Centre, Manchester
Wednesday 5 March 2025
As the two actors explore the undeniable attraction forming between them off set, they stumble into questions of male responsibility, female safety and the dangers of modern romance - and things get still more complicated once the camera st...Carousel - A Theatre Show by Ivo Graham
HOME, Manchester
Thursday 6 - Friday 7 March 2025
"Teddy told me that in Greek nostalgia literally means the pain from an old wound. It's a twinge in your heart, far more powerful than memory alone." Ivo Graham, who has watched this Mad Men clip approximately 100 times, steps away from the...As You Like It
Grosvenor East theatre, Manchester
Thursday 6 - Saturday 8 March 2025
By William ShakespeareDirected by Emily Raymond "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players." Escaping from her evil uncle, Rosalind hides herself in the wilderness of Arden, where she happens to fall in love. The onl...Murder Trial Tonight III
The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Friday 7 March 2025
Tigerslane Studios, renowned for its captivating true-crime productions, is thrilled to announce the launch of the new season of Murder Trial Tonight. This unique theatrical experience brings true-crime stories to life. In the third season,....gif)
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Murder Mystery Evening
East Lancashire Railway, Bury
Friday 7 March - Friday 19 December 2025
Nothing works up an appetite like exercising those brain cells. So bring your best detective skills and join us for a night of mystery and murder on one of our stunning heritage steam trains. If you love Agatha Christie or Sherlock Holmes -...On Me
Octagon Theatre, Bolton
Friday 7 - Saturday 8 March 2025
As the two actors explore the undeniable attraction forming between them off set, they stumble into questions of male responsibility, female safety and the dangers of modern romance - and things get still more complicated once the camera st...Altrincham Garrick Play Reading Club
Altrincham Garrick, Altrincham
Friday 7 March - Friday 5 December 2025
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 ...Do I Love You?
Octagon Theatre, Bolton
Tuesday 11 - Saturday 15 March 2025
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...Kate Mosse - Labyrinth Live: Unlocking the Secrets of the Labyrinth
Lowry, Salford
Tuesday 11 March 2025
To celebrate the 20th anniversary of her global No 1 bestseller, Kate Mosse is set to thrill audiences anew with her unforgettable one-woman show, Labyrinth Live: Unlocking the Secrets of the Labyrinth. With theatre at its most dazzling, im...Kellie Colbert - Dedicated To The One I Love
Contact, Manchester
Thursday 13 March 2025
Dedicated To The One I Love draws on Greater Manchester-based performance maker Kellie Colbert's real experience of being gaslit. A performance that aims to create a safe space as Kellie confronts the fears of being alone, and falls for an...Motherkind
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Saturday 15 March 2025
Motherkind is a playful and powerful kaleidoscope of stories about parenting, the maternal brain and making space from Mothers Who Make. The vignette style show explores the early days, the fragility, the absurdity and the beauty of life....Macbeth starring David Tennant & Cush Jumbo (15)
HOME, Manchester
Saturday 15 March - Wednesday 23 April 2025
David Tennant (Doctor Who, Broadchurch) and Cush Jumbo (The Good Wife, Criminal Record) lead a stellar cast in an 'enthralling' (★★★★★ Daily Telegraph) new production of Shakespeare's MACBETH, filmed live at the Donmar Warehouse i...The Lowry Dance & Drama Workshops
Lowry, Salford
Monday 17 March - 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...Handbagged
Lowry, Salford
Tuesday 18 - Saturday 22 March 2025
The Queen and her most powerful subject, behind closed doors. Moira Buffini's clever and fiercely funny comedy is a fly-on-the-wall look at what might have happened when Queen Elizabeth II and Margaret Thatcher came face-to-face in the priv...Pride & Prejudice (sort of)
Lowry, Salford
Tuesday 18 - Saturday 22 March 2025
Direct from its triumph in the West End where it won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Comedy, Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of) is a unique and audacious retelling of Jane Austen's most iconic love story. Men, money and microphones will be...The Moth
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Tuesday 18 March 2025
Acclaimed Elysium Theatre Company return after their celebrated 50th Anniversary production of 'The Island' in 2024 with a drama by Paul Herzberg that will grip you from the beginning and not let go. 1994: a chance meeting on a train betwee...Driftwood
Lowry, Salford
Thursday 20 - Friday 21 March 2025
An inspiring story about hope, love and belonging from the company that produced hit shows Peak Stuff and How Not To Drown. Two brothers on a beach need to figure out what to do with their dad - but the sea has other ideas. Mark and Tiny wa...Learning To Fly
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Friday 21 March 2025
With a 5 star review in the Guardian, who described it as "a riveting remarkable hour of theatre," this uplifting, big hearted and hilarious new one man show from James Rowland promises a glorious and irreverent evening with one of the UK's...The House Party
HOME, Manchester
Tuesday 25 - Saturday 29 March 2025
A wild party. A friendship. And one night that changes everything. It's Julie's 18th birthday, and she's throwing a party in her father's extravagant townhouse. Her boyfriend has just dumped her and her long-suffering best friend Christine ...
Coram Shakespeare Schools Theatre Festival
Contact, Manchester
Tuesday 25 - Friday 28 March 2025
Coram Shakespeare Schools Foundation presents the world's largest youth drama festival, an evening of live theatre, featuring a series of unique abridged Shakespeare productions by local schools. ...Pig Heart Boy
Lowry, Salford
Wednesday 26 - Saturday 29 March 2025
Is it better to have a pig's heart that works ... than a human heart that doesn't? Cameron is thirteen, and all he wants is to be normal - have friends, go to school, and dive to the bottom of his local swimming pool. But he desperately nee...Of Mice and Men
Octagon Theatre, Bolton
Wednesday 26 March - Saturday 12 April 2025
A gripping tale of hope and friendship. Lennie and George are unlikely best friends, two drifters bound together by a shared faith and the ambition to live the great American dream. Landing a job on a Californian ranch during the Great Depr...National Theatre Live - Dr. Strangelove (15)
HOME, Manchester
Thursday 27 March - Saturday 12 April 2025
Seven-time BAFTA Award-winner Steve Coogan plays four roles in this pre-recorded cinema screening of the world premiere stage adaptation of Stanley Kubrick's comedy masterpiece Dr. Strangelove. When a rogue U.S General triggers a nuclear a...Barbara
Oldham Coliseum Theatre, Oldham
Thursday 27 March 2025
An immersive theatrical experience that sensitively explores the subject of dementia through the lens of how we care for those we love and how we care for ourselves. Barbara and Bernard will transport you, their guests, to a bygone era ...Mia and the Fish
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Friday 28 - Saturday 29 March 2025
A modern retelling by Satinder Chohan of the ancient myth Manu and the Fish, produced by National Theatre Connections partnership. Mia is a young refugee girl who along with her sister is washed up onto the shores of the UK. Against the b...Murder, She Didn't Write
Lowry, Salford
Sunday 30 March - Wednesday 23 April 2025
Don your deerstalker, grab your magnifying glass and get your 'finger of suspicion' at the ready because Edinburgh Fringe favourites, Degrees of Error, are bringing back their multiple sell-out show for your sleuthing pleasure. They'll crea...Tambo and Bones
HOME, Manchester
Tuesday 1 - Saturday 5 April 2025
Winner of 2019 Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting and UK Theatre Awards. Tambo and Bones are stuck in a minstrel show. It's hard to know what's real when you're stuck in a minstrel show. Their escape plan: get out, get rich, get even. In thi...Do I Love You?
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Wednesday 2 - Saturday 5 April 2025
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 - Dr. Strangelove (15)
Stockport Plaza, Stockport
Thursday 3 April 2025
Seven-time BAFTA Award-winner Steve Coogan plays four roles in this pre-recorded cinema screening of the world premiere stage adaptation of Stanley Kubrick's comedy masterpiece Dr. Strangelove. When a rogue U.S General triggers a nuclear a...Third Class - A Titanic Story
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Thursday 3 April 2025
A one-man theatre show based on the life of Titanic survivor, Edward Dorking. "The White Star Line merged itself out of existence. Those clever little educated boys." Edward was gay. Openly gay, and on Wednesday, April 10th, 1912, he set sa...Love and Information
Grosvenor East theatre, Manchester
Thursday 3 - Saturday 5 April 2025
By Caryl ChurchillDirected by Nickie Miles-Wildin "There was someone called Hippasus in Greek times who found out about the diagonal of a square and they drowned him because no one wanted to know about things like that." With 52 scenes and ...Abigail's Party
Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester
Friday 4 April - Saturday 17 May 2025
Mike Leigh's tragicomic masterpiece ABIGAIL'S PARTY has garnered cult status across the decades. In the Royal Exchange's distinctive space, award-winning Director Natalie Abrahami draws on the unique in-the-round stage to create an intima...Bi-Topia
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Friday 4 April 2025
A "hilarious, honest and raw" exploration of an authentic Bisexual experience, taking inspiration from personal experiences and expanding to the wider LGBTQ+ narrative, BI-TOPIA sheds a very timely spotlight on the Bisexual experience and r...Little Women
Lowry, Salford
Tuesday 8 - Saturday 12 April 2025
Louisa May Alcott's Little Women was an immediate critical and commercial success. The book was inspired by Alcott's experiences growing up and is one of the best loved novels of all time. Experience the enduring journey of the March sister...
Kim's Convenience
HOME, Manchester
Tuesday 8 - Saturday 12 April 2025
Following hugely successful runs in London and internationally, Kim's Convenience is heading out on a UK tour! Now a global smash hit, this hilarious and heartwarming drama about a family-run Korean store that inspired the Netflix phenomeno...The Moth
Lowry, Salford
Thursday 10 - Saturday 12 April 2025
Acclaimed Elysium Theatre Company return after their celebrated 50th Anniversary production of 'The Island' in 2024 with a drama by Paul Herzberg that will grip you from the beginning and not let go. 1994: a chance meeting on a train betwee...Queer Lady M
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Thursday 10 - Friday 11 April 2025
It's time for Queer Lady M's cabaret! Performed by gender-fluid artist Shane Gabriel, Lady Macbeth comes to life like you've never experienced before! There's outrageous lip-syncing, cheeky dancing and sassy conversation as Queer Lady M in...THE QUEEN OF THE OCEAN - TITANIC EXPERIENCE
The Bowdon Rooms, Altrincham
Friday 11 April 2025
The Queen of the Ocean is a totally immersive theatre and dining experience from Histoire Productions based on the RMS Titanic. Serving up a 4 course recreation of the final meal on board, be takenback to a world of ocean class liners, opul...Mushroom Language: A Fungal Gothic
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Tuesday 15 - Wednesday 16 April 2025
In an eerie and funny homage to folk horror, two human performers absorb and mimic 'mushroom language' through ritual and power dynamics. Who are these creatures, and what are the mushrooms trying to tell them? Dreamlike conversations and m...Picture You Dead
