Most Popular Theatre in Manchester
Mon 23 Dec 2024 - Sun 12 Jan 2025
Thu 26 Mar - Tue 28 Apr 2026
Wed 20 Aug - Sat 4 Oct 2025
Mon 23 Dec 2024 - Sun 5 Jan 2025
Sun 2 Feb 2025 - Wed 18 Feb 2026
Mon 23 Dec 2024 - Sat 4 Jan 2025
Snowstorm ‘Firebird' Spectacular Ice Show at The Trafford Centre
Monday 23 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...
The 100 Story Hotel
Monday 23 - 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...
Cinderella
Monday 23 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...
Wicked
Monday 23 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 ...
Jurassic World - The Exhibition
Monday 23 December 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...
The Holiday In Concert - The Film with Live Orchestra
Monday 23 December 2024
The beloved Christmas film The Holiday will be presented live in concert this winter, featuring its magical musical score performed live to the film by a full concert orchestra. A Universal Pictures production, The Holiday stars Cameron...
Miracle on 34th Street
Monday 23 - 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...
Alice in Wonderland
Monday 23 - 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 Jungle Book
Monday 23 December 2024 - Saturday 4 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...
David Hockney: Bigger & Closer (not smaller & further away)
Monday 23 December 2024 - Saturday 25 January 2025
Let David Hockney take you on a personal journey through sixty years of his art in this vibrant immersive exhibition With huge state-of-the-art projections and a revolutionary sound system, Bigger & Closer (not smaller & further away) invit...
Sleeping Beauty
Monday 23 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...
Spend Spend Spend
Monday 23 December 2024 - Saturday 11 January 2025
Based on the life of Viv Nicholson and directed by Josh Seymour, this carnivalesque musical comedy is the big-hearted experience everyone needs this festive season. From rags-to-riches and back again, we follow working-class Yorkshire lass ...
Stick Man
Monday 23 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...
Rapunzel - A Tangled Tale
Monday 23 - Tuesday 31 December 2024
Get ready for a hair raising adventure as Polka Dot Pantomimes and The Albert Halls proudly present RAPUNZEL - A Tangled Tale! Back by popular demand Coronation Street Legend VICKY ENTWISTLE stars as Mother Gothel (she's back - but this t...
Santa Live! The Ultimate Santa Show Party
Monday 23 - Tuesday 24 December 2024
Get ready this Christmas as Darling Productions UK brings you Bolton's brand-new festive extravaganza... SANTA LIVE! Disaster strikes in Christmas town when the Christmas spirit runs out and all the children names have mysteriously vanished...
Sleeping Beauty - Middleton's Christmas Panto
Monday 23 - 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 prickin...
Jack and The Beanstalk (Altrincham Garrick Panto)
Monday 23 December 2024 - Sunday 5 January 2025
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 cottage in the shadow of the terrible giant, Blunderbore. With th...
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Monday 23 December 2024 - Sunday 12 January 2025
Maureen Nolan and Coronation Street's Emrhys Cooper are set to head a stellar cast in St Helens Theatre Royal's fantastic festive family show this Christmas. Pop legend and West End star Maureen will play the Wicked Queen while Emrhys, who ...
The Bear
Monday 23 - 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 ...
Tinderella
Monday 23 December 2024 - Sunday 5 January 2025
Get ready for the funniest, filthiest, most wickedly fabulous pantomime you've always wished to see! Release your inner child, and then leave them at home because this show is not for kids! In a scandalous twist on the classic fairy tale, ...
Rumpelstiltskin
Monday 23 - Thursday 26 December 2024
From the producers of Dick Whittington and Aladdin, The Big Tiny bring their new story of magic, mayhem and above all, true love as Cupid comes to The Met this Christmas. Can she overcome the wicked tricks of Rumpelstiltskin and help Pri...
Santa Special
Monday 23 - 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...
Little Penguin's First Christmas
Monday 23 - 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...
Family Fairytale Tour
Monday 23 December 2024
Rumour has it that a Fairy Godmother in Training, needs your help! Can you help her find the ingredients for a transformation spell, before the clock strikes 12:00?This pantomime season, we're throwing open the theatre doors to welcome fami...
HOME Film Pass
Monday 23 - Tuesday 31 December 2024
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 ...
Rudolph the Reindeer's Red Nose Roadshow
Monday 23 - 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...
Christmas Lights
Monday 23 - Monday 30 December 2024
With beautiful lights, original music, playful performance and integrated BSL, Christmas Lights will be sure to dazzle children aged 1-4 and their families. On a tiny house, covered in snow, colourful lights that twinkle and glow. Snow is f...
The Library of Enchantment
Monday 23 December 2024 - Saturday 29 March 2025
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 ...
moviEscape - SAWtopsy
Monday 23 December 2024 - Friday 31 January 2025
Inspired by the hit SAW movie franchise, SAWtopsy at moviESCAPE, Stockport's leading Escape Room offering, is a gory and ominous room with dim, atmospheric lighting, however it does not feature any jump scares - well none that are deliberat...
East Lancashire Railway - Festive Dining Experience
Monday 23 December 2024
The weather outside is frightful, but East Lancashire Railway's festive dining experiences are delightful! Step on board the festive decorated, beautifully restored pullman-style carriages while being steam hauled through the picturesque Ir...
It's a Wonderful Life (U)
Monday 23 - Tuesday 24 December 2024
★★★★★ "It's a Wonderful Life is the closest thing to a postwar American Dickens. This is considered by many to be one of the finest films ever made." ~ Little White Lies. --- Frank Capra's heart-warming 1946 masterpiece has been...
Phil Collins & Oleksiy Radynski - Intervention
Monday 23 - Tuesday 31 December 2024
A collaborative project by Berlin and Wuppertal-based moving-image artist and filmmaker Phil Collins and Kyiv-based filmmaker and writer Oleksiy Radynski, co-commissioned by HOME and Manchester International Festival, re-contextualising th...
All We Imagine as Light
Monday 23 - Thursday 26 December 2024
The lives of three women intersect and overlap in a haunting drama that sees the city of Mumbai play a central role....
Anora
Monday 23 - Tuesday 24 December 2024
Anora, a young sex worker from Brooklyn, gets her chance at a Cinderella story when she meets and impulsively marries the son of an oligarch. ...
Best of 2024/ Perfect Days
Monday 23 - Sunday 29 December 2024
Wim Wenders highly anticipated return to feature filmmaking is gentle, joyful, heartbreaking, and made with a real lightness of touch....
Conclave
Monday 23 - Tuesday 31 December 2024
Conclave follows one of the world?s most secretive and ancient events ? selecting a new Pope....
Godzilla Minus One/Minus Color
Monday 23 - Thursday 26 December 2024
Celebrate 70 years of Godzilla ? king of the movie monsters! - with a special re-release of modern classic Godzilla Minus One in glorious monochrome. ...
Grand Theft Hamlet
Monday 23 December 2024
Two out of work actors attempt the impossible task of mounting a full production of Hamlet inside the online world of Grand Theft Auto.?...
Mufasa: The Lion King
Monday 23 December 2024 - Thursday 2 January 2025
Mufasa: The Lion King tells the origin story of Mufasa in his journey from orphaned cub to king of the pride....
Queer
Monday 23 - Tuesday 31 December 2024
Daniel Craig dazzles as an American ex-pat in 1950s Mexico City, whose solitary life is upended with the arrival in town of Eugene Allerton, a young student....
Small Things Like These
Monday 23 - Friday 27 December 2024
Cillian Murphy delivers a stunning performance in Small Things Like These, based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Claire Keegan. ...
John Street Social Family Christmas Party
Monday 23 December 2024
Monday 23rd December, doors at 5.00pm, our annual family Christmas party, with Children's entertainer, Visit from Santa and a gift for each child...
Come From Away
Tuesday 24 December 2024 - Sunday 5 January 2025
Come From Away - a moving tale that captures the spirit of true events that transpired in the wake of 9/11! This musical has taken the West End by storm, winning four Olivier Awards including one for Best New Musical. Aside from a fleet o...
A Christmas Carol - The Musical
Tuesday 24 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,...
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...
The Piccadilly Sinfonietta - Vivaldi's Four Seasons at Christmas
Tuesday 24 - Friday 27 December 2024
Celebrate Christmas with the outstanding musicians of the Piccadilly Sinfonietta performing Vivaldi's Four Seasons, by candlelight. ProgrammePachelbel - Canon in DBach - Jesu JoyCorelli - Christmas ConcertoMozart Piano concerto in C maj, K4...
Shakespeare North Playhouse - A Guided Tour
Tuesday 24 December 2024
Want to know more about why Shakespeare North Playhouse was built? Why in Prescot? Why it won 'Theatre Building of the Year 2023' at The Stage Awards? Look no further! On this Guided Tour through Shakespeare North Playhouse, you will be led...
The Lowry Dance & Drama Workshops
Tuesday 24 December 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...
Best of 2024/ La Chimera
Tuesday 24 - Monday 30 December 2024
Alice Rohrwacher delivers a musing on things - lost loves, moments in time - that will always be tantalisingly out of reach....
Les Misérables - The Arena Spectacular
Thursday 26 - Sunday 29 December 2024
Les Miserables The Arena Spectacular will embark on a World Tour to over 15 countries and regions from September 2024. Expanded from the beloved musical phenomenon, now entering its 39th revolutionary year in London, this spectacular produc...
