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
Sun 2 - Sat 8 Mar 2025
Toxic
Lowry, Salford
Wednesday 16 - Saturday 19 April 2025
The hotly anticipated explosive new show written and performed by award-winning theatremaker Nathaniel J Hall, and presented by Dibby Theatre. Manchester 2017. A chance meeting on a hook-up app sets two damaged thirty-something hearts ...Boys from the Blackstuff
Lowry, Salford
Tuesday 22 - Saturday 26 April 2025
Bill Kenwright Ltd presents Liverpool's Royal Court and National Theatre production of Alan Bleasdale's "Boys From The Blackstuff" by James Graham. Gizza job. Go on, gizzit. 80s Liverpool. Chrissie, Loggo, George, Dixie and Yosser are used ...Strawberry Jack: A Tale from Paradise Heights
The Met, Bury
Wednesday 23 April 2025
From the award winning writer/director of The Haunting of Blaine Manor, and The Bench: A Tale from Paradise Heights written and directed by Joe O'Byrne. A childhood accident left Strawberry Jack Grundy horrifically scarred - a wild child th...The Meat Rack
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Wednesday 23 April 2025
Gritty 1950's London... Alfie Connor, is a ruthless criminal gang boss who hides his true self behind a veneer of violence and power. George, a young male prostitute with dreams of escaping the streets, navigates the dangers of his world, w...Singin' I'm No A Billy, He's A Tim
Stockport Plaza, Stockport
Friday 25 April 2025
The 20th anniversary tour of the play exploring bigotry and ethnic identity. "Singin' I'm No a Billy, He's a Tim" is a phenomenon in Scotland where it has sold out countless nationwide tours, a sensation at the Edinburgh Festival and now t...National Theatre Live - Dr. Strangelove (15)
Altrincham Garrick, Altrincham
Friday 25 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...The Silence of Snow: The Life of Patrick Hamilton
Hope Mill Theatre, Manchester
Friday 25 - Saturday 26 April 2025
Mark Farrelly (Quentin Crisp: Naked Hope, Howerd's End, Jarman) presents his riveting, kinetic solo show portraying one of the great English writers of the inter-war years. Patrick Hamilton was a dazzling success in his twenties, producin...The Trial of Agatha Christie
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Friday 25 - Saturday 26 April 2025
"My name is Aphrodite the First, and tonight you are going to help me solve a mystery." Dame Agatha Christie is the best-selling novelist of all time. Famed for her murder-mystery novels, she was a pioneer in the world of crime fiction. ...Hamlet Hail to the Thief
Aviva Studios, Manchester
Sunday 27 April - Sunday 18 May 2025
A frenetic adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet haunted by Radiohead's Hail to the Thief. Shakespeare's great tragedy and Radiohead's seminal album collide for a feverish experience that fuses theatre, music, and movement. In this frenetic di...Death of a Salesman
Lowry, Salford
Tuesday 29 April - Saturday 3 May 2025
One of the greatest plays of the twentieth century, Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman explodes onto the stage in this fresh new production led by acclaimed actor David Hayman (Sid and Nancy, Dad's Army). This timeless, powerful story t...North by Northwest
HOME, Manchester
Tuesday 29 April - Saturday 10 May 2025
Adapted and Directed by Emma Rice It would be strange, would it not, if, in a city of seven million people, one man were never mistaken for another... But that is exactly what happens to Roger Thornhill, reluctant hero of North by Northwest...Little Gem
Altrincham Garrick, Altrincham
Tuesday 29 April - Sunday 4 May 2025
An Altrincham Garrick production of Elaine Murphy's multi-award winning play. Love, sex, birth, death and salsa classes. Three generations of Irish women. One extraordinary year. Happy-go-lucky Amber, fresh out of school, is high on life, d...Vignettes - Letters to the NHS
Hope Mill Theatre, Manchester
Wednesday 30 April - Sunday 4 May 2025
Presented by HER Productions, Vignettes is an evening of six short plays by established and emerging female-identifying Manchester-based playwrights, inspired by whatever they choose. Vignettes returns in 2025 with a very special 'Lette...Hedda Gabler
Grosvenor East Theatre, Manchester
Thursday 1 - Saturday 3 May 2025
By Henrik Ibsen, version by Patrick MarberDirected by Sean Aydon Just married. Bored already. Hedda longs to be free... This is the story of a woman so unhappy, she'll set the world on fire just to watch it burn. Ibsen's masterpiece is re-i...Remythed
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Friday 2 - Saturday 3 May 2025
The debut show of Bet'n Lev Theatre, Remythed takes myths and legends, reshapes and retells them. Stories in ways you've never seen them before; full of insight, dreams and wisdom that'll leave you joyfully questioning every story you've e....gif)
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A Beginners Guide to Widowhood
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Tuesday 6 May 2025
A Beginner's Guide to Widowhood is a dark, but uplifting one-woman show exploring the experiences of young widows, loss, and why it's okay to talk about death. Suria has lost her husband (she hasn't misplaced him or anything - he's dead) J...Of Mice and Men (Garrick Production)
Altrincham Garrick, Altrincham
Thursday 8 - Sunday 18 May 2025
"Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family. They don't belong no place... with us it ain't like that. We got a future. We got somebody to talk to that gives a damn about us." George and...This is Not my Beautiful House
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Thursday 8 - Friday 9 May 2025
A story of myth, legend and identity, This Is Not My Beautiful House is a one-person play in the Irish language, with English surtitles. Suitable for anyone interested in queer identity, Irish history, or theatre generally, the show revolv...Kook Ensemble - Sand
Lowry, Salford
Saturday 10 May 2025
Sand is Circus Theatre group Kook Ensemble's second show, hard on the heels of their critically acclaimed tour of 'Filibuster' in 2024. Dylan has dementia. Heather must watch the love of her life drift away and battle with the erosion of hi...Austentatious - An Improvised Jane Austen Novel
Lowry, Salford
Sunday 11 May 2025
The award-winning smash-hit comedy, as seen in the West End every week since 2022, and heard on BBC Radio 4, comes to you on a strictly limited tour. For one delightful evening only, the all-star Austentatious cast will improvise a hilariou...Plaza Murder Mystery Fundraiser
Stockport Plaza, Stockport
Tuesday 13 - Thursday 15 May 2025
The Plaza's very own 'Plaza Players' are back with another fundraising Murder Mystery event that will be.... deadly! Lights..... Cameras..... Murder! Mr Cyril G De Thrill is filming his latest and greatest Silver Screen spectacular at The P...Murder, She Didn't Write
Octagon Theatre, Bolton
Thursday 15 May 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...Buff
Waterside, Manchester
Thursday 15 May 2025
Funny yet poignant, this solo-performed play tackles body image pressures, social media jealousy, and one gay man's journey to self-acceptance head on, whilst navigating the toxic universal world of online dating. After a bad break-up from ...The Dad's Army Radio Show
Lowry, Salford
Friday 16 May 2025
The nation's favourite sitcom returns! The boys are delighted to head to Lowry with three new episodes. Two actors, two microphones, over twenty-five characters - and lots of sound effects! Dad's Army Radio Show bring's Perry and Croft's cl...Jock Night
Hope Mill Theatre, Manchester
Tuesday 20 - Saturday 31 May 2025
Following a critically acclaimed run at London's Seven Dials Playhouse, Hive North bring Adam Zane's uncut and extended version of his outrageous Offie-nominated comedy-drama back to Manchester. Welcome to Jock Night - Manchester's wildest...Dracula
Octagon Theatre, Bolton
Wednesday 21 - Saturday 24 May 2025
A powerful stage adaptation of Bram Stoker's gothic classic The time is 1897. Mankind is on the cusp of vast technological change, scientific mastery and media innovation. But poised between traditional beliefs, the threat of the unknown an...The Taming of The Shrew: The Experiment
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Friday 23 May 2025
This Taming of the Shrew is a high octane comedy that punches in the gut. One of Shakespeare's most controversial works, "The Taming of the Shrew" sees an immovable object and an unstoppable force meet when fierce Katherine (labelled a veno...The Taming Of The 'Shrew'
HOME, Manchester
Tuesday 27 - Saturday 31 May 2025
Unseemly Women return in with their annual Shakespeare, with an all female and non-binary cast. Step into a world of burlesque, clowns and cabaret; exploring one of Shakespeare's most talked-about comedies. A drunken patron (Sly) falls vict...Carmilla
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Wednesday 28 - Thursday 29 May 2025
Paying homage to it's 19th-century roots, Carmilla is a timeless reflection on the complexities of human emotion and the shadowy borders between life and death. A twilight world of gothic horror recieves a queer reimagining from Chalice Pri...Dear England
Lowry, Salford
Thursday 29 May - Sunday 29 June 2025
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'A theatrical spectacle as uplifting as any England victory.' TELEGRAPH The National Theatre's Olivier-Award winning smash hit is coming to Salford for four weeks only, following a record-breaking run in the West End. The co...
Myra's Story
Lowry, Salford
Thursday 29 - Friday 30 May 2025
Direct from London's West End, where every performance received a huge standing ovation and the smash hit of four Edinburgh fringes. The incredible story of middle-aged homeless alcoholic, Myra McLaughlin living rough on the streets of Dubl...Orton: Fallen Angel
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Friday 30 - Saturday 31 May 2025
This new play from Grin Theatre Company, written by Wes Williams, re-imagines the turbulent relationship between the iconic gay writer Joe Orton and his partner Kenneth Halliwell. Based on true events and incidents the play explores thei...An Adequate Abridgement of Boarding School Life as a Homo
Waterside, Manchester
Friday 30 - Saturday 31 May 2025
This is not a coming out story, it is not a gay tragedy, and it is not porn. It is life through the lens of a queer young man, navigating masculinity, Grindr and institution that is rife with shame; doing it all with a sensational soundtrac...Breathe
Waterside, Manchester
Sunday 1 June 2025
Part gig, part puppet theatre and part live film, Breathe explores the inner workings of trees, beautifully realised with a combination of stunning puppetry, breathtakingly detailed sets, and groundbreaking live camerawork. Underscored th...Vardy v Rooney: The Wagatha Christie Trial
Altrincham Garrick, Altrincham
Monday 2 - Saturday 7 June 2025
A story stranger than fiction that blurs the boundaries of tabloid scoop, court case and soap opera, The Wagatha Christie Trial explores privacy and celebrity in modern Britain. On 9 October 2019, Coleen Rooney publicly accused Rebekah Var...The Play's The Thing: A One Person Hamlet
Lowry, Salford
Wednesday 4 June 2025
'Mark Lockyer has absolute commitment and mastery of this timeless classic' Rufus Norris. Artistic Director, Royal National Theatre With all the characters played by one actor, stunningly simple staging, and all the language we love, we ...Pride & Prejudice
Octagon Theatre, Bolton
Thursday 5 - Saturday 28 June 2025
Jane Austen's most iconic love story is brought dazzlingly to life on stage When it comes to the subject of marriage, headstrong Lizzy Bennet is determined to resist the mounting pressures and expectations from society. But can she resist l...Sorry (I Broke Your Arm and Legs)
Lowry, Salford
Thursday 5 June 2025
A riotous debut PowerPoint presentation from James Akka (Thanks A Lot, Milton Jones!), combining all the thrills of World Book Day with the hilarity of the Maths Olympiad. Sam's obviously the correct choice for Head Boy. He's got the Powe...Local
Lowry, Salford
Friday 6 June 2025
A show about home, belonging or not, and letting go. 'Local' is a solo show where storyteller Liz Richardson revisits her childhood memories and home in West Cumbria in an attempt to understand whether she still belongs there, or ever did. ...Translations
Altrincham Garrick, Altrincham
Tuesday 10 - Sunday 15 June 2025
Brian Friel's modern masterpiece examines the fractious relationship between people and nations through the lens of language and (mis)communication. It's August 1833. The pupils have gathered in a hedge-school in the townland of Baile B...Lil.Miss.Lady
Lowry, Salford
Friday 13 - Saturday 14 June 2025
Part rave, part drama - LIL. MISS. LADY (Lady Lykez) from HighRise Entertainment explores the history of Grime through the eyes of a vigorous female MC. From the early stages of Jungle, ravers will take an immersive journey through the soun...Quentin Crisp: Naked Hope
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Friday 13 June 2025
Following his performance of Jarman, Mark Farrelly's hugely acclaimed solo play depicts Quentin Crisp at two phases of his extraordinary life: alone in his Chelsea flat in the 1960s, certain that life has passed him by, and thirty years ...180° Chord
Contact, Manchester
Saturday 14 June 2025
A new play written and directed by Chris Leicester. You're the pride of the police force. You're ruthless and unethical. Then fate intervenes. One moment you're a detective sergeant and the next, a convicted murderer. Now you're in the very...Unseemly Women - Macbeth
Hope Mill Theatre, Manchester
Wednesday 18 - Sunday 29 June 2025
Manchester-based Feminist theatre collective Unseemly Women return in 2025 with their 7th annual Shakespeare, brought to you by the creators of Taming of the "SHREW", they present MACBETH! Scotland is at war with Norway. While men fight, t...Shellshocked
Waterside, Manchester
Friday 20 June 2025
From the creative team behind the five-star, multi-award-winning Jesus, Jane, Mother and Me and LASH, comes a thrilling new drama. The horrors of World War Two have broken young Wesley, but could the madness he encounters beyond it save or ...
Two Steps Back
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Wednesday 25 June 2025
From the writer and performer of 'No Coward Soul', this new play by Emily Parr explores the struggle to adjust to student life when homesickness hits hard. She was not of an ice-breaking, team-playing, shot-drinking disposition. Hiding in h...Living the Life of Riley
The Albert Halls, Bolton
Wednesday 2 July 2025
Starring Vicky Entwistle, Living the Life of Riley is a heart-warming, heart-breaking and hilarious tale of a family, trying to negotiate their way through teenage tantrums, autism, and Grandma. Joanne Riley always knew there was something...The Whirligig of Time
Waterside, Manchester
Sunday 13 July 2025
From the team that brought you the five-star Shakespeare's Fool, Tortive return with another spectacular one-man hit show. To hell with anger management! Malvolio was done notorious wrong; so much so that he swore to be revenged on the 'who...Jet Set Go!
Altrincham Garrick, Altrincham
Tuesday 15 - Saturday 19 July 2025
Jet Set Go! is a high-flying British musical comedy from Jake Brunger and Pippa Cleary, the writers of 'The Great British Bake Off Musical' and 'The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4 The Musical'. Join Nicola and her fun-loving tran...Living the Life of Riley
Blackburn Empire Theatre, Blackburn
Wednesday 16 July 2025
Starring Vicky Entwistle, Living the Life of Riley is a heart-warming, heart-breaking and hilarious tale of a family, trying to negotiate their way through teenage tantrums, autism, and Grandma. Joanne Riley always knew there was something...Daddy's First Gay Date
