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
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...
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...
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...
The Best Movies in Cinemas & Streaming
Monday 27 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...
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...
A Complete Unknown (15)
Monday 27 - 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
Monday 27 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)
Monday 27 - 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
Monday 27 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...
Discounted Cineworld Cinema Tickets
Monday 27 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
Monday 27 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
Monday 27 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...
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...
A Real Pain (18)
Monday 27 - 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)
Monday 27 - 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...
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....
Nosferatu (15)
Monday 27 - 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)
Monday 27 - 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)
Monday 27 - 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 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...
Jacob Alon
Tuesday 28 January 2025
As seen on Later... with Jools Holland, Jacob Alon is a Dunfermline indie folk singer-songwriter with a profound gift for storytelling. Both intimate and devastatingly introspective, their music is touched by a rare timelessness. Drawing ...
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...
Top Gun (12A)
Tuesday 28 January 2025
★★★ There is no denying the quality and entertainment value of the flying sequences, which effortlessly blend mile-high footage with state-of-the-art modelwork. But the rivalry between Tom Cruise and Val Kilmer, and Cruise's tempestuo...
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....
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...
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...
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...
Mohand and Peter
Wednesday 29 January 2025
PSYCHEdelight Theatre Company's Mohand & Peter is a devised show addressing the trauma of long term exile and celebrating friendships across cultures. A backflip in time, a quick hop back home, with humour and visual poetry, Mohand & Pete...
The Director's Take Podcast Live
Wednesday 29 January 2025
A live session of the acclaimed podcast The Director's Take, which explores how you go from directing something with your mates to being one of the most senior decision makers on a film set. Hosted by award-winning filmmakers Oz Arshad an...
Doves - In Conversation with Chris Hawkins
Wednesday 29 January 2025
To celebrate the release of their upcoming new album, Jez & Andy from Doves will take part in an intimate Q and A Session hosted by Chris Hawkins. There will be no live music at this event. ...
Lee Chambers - Momentum
Wednesday 29 January 2025
In conversation on his new book, Momentum, with Carol Ann Whitehead FRSA CMgr CCMI, leading psychologist and wellbeing expert, Lee Chambers shares his thirteen essential tools to help you unlock your potential. For many of us, our lives hav...
Behind the Scenes Tours
Wednesday 29 January 2025 - Wednesday 24 June 2026
Enjoy a tour of Stockport's magnificent 1932 Art Deco Super Cinema and Variety Theatre. Many of the greatest stage and screen stars of yesteryear and the modern day have appeared in person on stage or on the giant silver screen at The Plaza...
Sing-a-Long-a The Greatest Showman
Thursday 30 January 2025
Sing-a-Long-a Productions, producers of Sing-a-Long-a Sound of Music and Sing-a-Long-a Grease brings you their newest show, the smash hit film musical that everyone can't stop singing - The Greatest Showman! Look out 'cause here it com...
10 Nights
Thursday 30 January - Saturday 1 February 2025
The Olivier Award nominated moving and funny play, by Shahid Iqbal Khan, is the story of one man's journey of self-discovery, and facing the consequences of your actions. One man's spiritual journey is about to begin... after he's posted o...
Unhinged
Thursday 30 - Friday 31 January 2025
A searing exploration of race and gender in an increasingly fractured city, UNHINGED begs the question: can your version of the past really be trusted? Hazel isn't in control of anything. Even though she really wants to be. Job: stagnant ...
An evening with Dennis Tueart
Thursday 30 January 2025
Join former Manchester City legend and director Dennis Tueart for a night of footballing memories. After winning the FA Cup with Sunderland, he moved to Maine Road and joined City where he became a fans' favourite winning the League Cup an...
William Morris and the Arts and Crafts Movement in Manchester
Thursday 30 January 2025
William Morris was a frequent visitor to Manchester, and the only Morris & Co shop outside London was located on Albert Square. His now famous dictum: Do not have anything in your house that you do not know to be useful or believe to be bea...
Lowry CAT - Open Dance Class
Thursday 30 January - Thursday 20 March 2025
Calling all young people aged 8-14 who love to move! Take part in inspiring dance classes to develop your dance ability and unleash your artistic creativity. Experience how dancers train at Lowry. Classes are led by Lowry Centre for Advanc...
