DRAMA PLAYS IN MANCHESTER
DRAMA PLAYS IN MANCHESTER
Most Popular Drama Plays in Manchester
Only Fools and Horses The Musical
Manchester Opera House
Mon 11 - Sat 23 Nov 2024
Tina - The Tina Turner Musical
Palace Theatre
Tue 25 Nov 2025 - Sat 3 Jan 2026
Spend Spend Spend
Royal Exchange Theatre
Sat 23 Nov 2024 - Sat 11 Jan 2025
Bill Bryson's Notes From a Small Island
The Lowry, Salford
Tuesday 11 - Saturday 15 February 2025
Bill Bryson's smash-hit memoir journeys to the stage in an acclaimed adaptation, starring national treasure Les Dennis. From Calais to the Highlands, Bill travels the length and breadth of Britain rediscovering the green and pleasant land h...The Girl on the Train
The Lowry, Salford
Tuesday 11 - Saturday 15 February 2025
Adapted from Paula Hawkins' novel - an international phenomenon selling over twenty million copies worldwide - this gripping new play will keep you guessing until the final moment. Rachel Watson longs for a different life. Her only escape i...Blithe Spirit
Hope Mill Theatre, Manchester
Wednesday 12 - Sunday 23 February 2025
Brought to life by Manchester's HER Productions, the creative team behind 'Taming of the Shrew', Noel Coward's classic farce is packed full of fun, fuss and plenty of laughs. Cantankerous novelist, Charles Condomine finds himself haunted by...Rita, Sue & Bob Too!
Stockport Plaza, Stockport
Tuesday 18 - Saturday 22 February 2025
St Helens' Regal Entertainments Ltd proudly presents the return of the record breaking Adults Only hilarious 1987 cult classic Rita, Sue & Bob Too!TV favourite Jake Quickenden heads the stellar cast as Bob in the production. Jake will be ...This Kind of Black (Requiem for Black Boys)
HOME, Manchester
Tuesday 18 - Saturday 22 February 2025
A coming-of-age tale set in 1990s Moss Side, a stone's throw from conflict and violence, This Kind of Black (Requiem for Black Boys) is the powerful new stage show from poet and musician Reece Williams. This Kind of Black celebrates a commu...National Theatre Live - The Importance of Being Earnest (PG)
HOME, Manchester
Thursday 20 - Saturday 22 February 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...Ghost Stories
The Lowry, Salford
Tuesday 25 February - 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 ...The Merchant of Venice (1936)
The Lowry, Salford
Tuesday 25 February - 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
The Lowry, Salford
Tuesday 25 February - 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)
Stockport Plaza, Stockport
Tuesday 25 February 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...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
The 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...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
The 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....png)
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Handbagged
The Lowry, Salford
Monday 17 - Saturday 22 March 2025
11 years of weekly, behind-closed-doors meetings, where the destiny of a nation is shaped. Moira Buffini's clever, funny and charming political comedy unlocks the palace door, imagining the untold conversations of two of history's most powe...Pride & Prejudice (sort of)
The 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...Pig Heart Boy
The 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...Little Women
The 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...Peter James' Picture You Dead
The Lowry, Salford
Wednesday 16 - Saturday 19 April 2025
Detective Superintendent Roy Grace is back, for the seventh Peter James stage adaptation, with the bestselling PICTURE YOU DEAD. Back home in Brighton, DCI Grace investigates a cold case that leads him to the rarified air of fine art but be...Boys from the Blackstuff
The Lowry, Salford
Tuesday 22 - Monday 28 April 2025
Bill Kenwright Ltd presents the 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 ...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...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...Austentatious - An Improvised Jane Austen Novel
The Lowry, Salford
Sunday 11 May 2025
Austentatious is saddling the horses for a Grand Tour of the United Kingdom! Austentatious is an improvised comedy play starring a cast of the country's quickest comic performers. Every single show the cast conjures up a brand new 'lost' Ja...Dear England
The 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
The 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...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...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...Derren Brown
The Lowry, Salford
Tuesday 2 - Saturday 13 September 2025
Prepare to be astonished! The multi award-winning master of mind control and psychological illusion, Derren Brown, returns with his brand new live show, ONLY HUMAN. The content of ONLY HUMAN is still under wraps, but we can guarantee you a ...
Tina - The Tina Turner Musical
