Most Popular Theatre in Manchester
Thu 26 Dec 2024 - Sun 12 Jan 2025
Thu 26 Mar - Tue 28 Apr 2026
Wed 20 Aug - Sat 4 Oct 2025
Thu 26 Dec 2024 - Sun 5 Jan 2025
Sun 2 Feb 2025 - Wed 18 Feb 2026
Fri 27 Dec 2024 - Sat 4 Jan 2025
Best of 2024/ My Favourite Cake
Saturday 28 December 2024
An Iranian tragicomedy about love and rebellion in later life, full of warmth and heartfelt humour....
Family Film/ Spirited Away (dubbed)
Saturday 28 December 2024
Overflowing with imaginative creatures and thrilling storytelling, Hayao Miyazaki?s Spirited Away is one of the most critically-acclaimed animated films of all time....
London Concertante - Viennese Christmas Spectacular
Sunday 29 December 2024
Tchaikovsky's elegant Nutcracker Suite leads on from Brahms' serious Hungarian Dance No.5, before Strauss II introduces us to the boundless exuberance of the Polish March in his Trisch-Trasch Polka. In the concert's penultimate work Tchaiko...
The Receipts Podcast
Sunday 29 December 2024
From relationships, situationships to everyday life experiences, you can expect unadulterated girl talk with no filter, a group chat come to life. Alongside the weekly topical full episodes there's also Your Receipts where Tolani Shoneye an...
Best of 2024/ Perfect Days
Sunday 29 December 2024
Wim Wenders highly anticipated return to feature filmmaking is gentle, joyful, heartbreaking, and made with a real lightness of touch....
Best of 2024/ La Chimera
Monday 30 December 2024
Alice Rohrwacher delivers a musing on things - lost loves, moments in time - that will always be tantalisingly out of reach....
Defected
Tuesday 31 December 2024
Defected and Glitterbox come to the Warehouse Project. Glitterbox is a nightlife phenomenon, conceptualised in 2015 by Defected boss Simon Dunmore. Ever since, Glitterbox has generated an inclusive, uplifting party atmosphere designed to un...
Best of 2024/ Hoard
Tuesday 31 December 2024
British writer-director Luna Carmoon draws on her own life for this visceral psychological drama that won her the Sutherland Award for Best First Feature at BFI London Film Festival 2023.?...
Children's New Years Eve Party
Tuesday 31 December 2024
Join us for a children's New Years Eve Party There will be food, entertainment and a count down...
Haunted Manchester City Exploration Game
Wednesday 1 January - Monday 1 December 2025
Choose your date and time after you purchase. Explore the most frightful places in Manchester, with their stories of restless spirits, cruel murders and menacing ghouls. Solve 13 creepy clues to find out the true story of Loky. Loky was a M...
Varna International Ballet - The Nutcracker
Thursday 2 January 2025
This most famous of fantasy ballets for all the family begins as night falls on Christmas Eve. As snowflakes fall outside, the warm glow of the open fire sends flickering shadows across the boughs of the Christmas tree and all the present...
2073 + recorded Q&038;A
Thursday 2 - Saturday 4 January 2025
In this ingenious mixture of sci-fi and speculative nonfiction, Asif Kapadia transports us to a future foreshadowed by the terrifying realities of our present moment. ...
Nosferatu
Thursday 2 - Thursday 9 January 2025
Robert Eggers turns his singular cinematic vision to this gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman and the terrifying vampire infatuated with her....
We Live In Time
Thursday 2 January 2025
Almut and Tobias learn to cherish each moment in this decade-spanning, deeply moving romance. ...
Varna International Ballet - Swan Lake
Friday 3 January 2025
The greatest romantic ballet of all time is brought to life by Tchaikovsky's haunting and unforgettable score. From the impressive splendour of the Palace ballroom to the moon-lit lake where swans glide in perfect formation, this compelli...
Altrincham Garrick Play Reading Club
Friday 3 January - 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 ...
Outside The Box Comedy Club - 3rd January - Stockport Garrick
Friday 3 January 2025
HARRIET DYER - has worked on BBC3, BBC Live at The Fringe, BBC Radio 4, BBC Knock Knock, BBC Ouch, Absolute Radio and The Russell Howard Hour. She is an award winning comedian, writer and mental health advocate. Harriet has been a full time...
The Hallé - Viennese New Year
Saturday 4 January 2025
Welcome in the New Year with an afternoon of joyous music full of Viennese charm. Conductor Eduardo Strausser and the Halle are joined by enchanting soprano Alexandra Lowe for a whirl around the ballrooms of Vienna in this traditional New Y...
Little Women (U)
Saturday 4 January 2025
Lady Bird writer-director Greta Gerwig in 2019 crafted a Little Women that draws on both the classic novel and the writings of Louisa May Alcott, and unfolds as the author's alter ego, Jo March, reflects back and forth on her fictional lif...
Family Film/ Little Women
Saturday 4 January 2025
The little women of the March family grow up, together and apart, in this classic story of coming-of-age and sisterhood....
Sheikh Mishary Alafasy
Sunday 5 January 2025
From Kuwait to the UK, and with sold-out shows across the globe, experience an Evening of Inspiration with the renowned Sheikh Mishary Alafasy. An evening of Quranic recitation, soul-stirring nasheeds, and heartfelt duas. Shaykh Mishary of...
All That Heaven Allows + intro
Sunday 5 January 2025
Perhaps the most emblematic of all Douglas Sirk?s Hollywood melodramas, Jane Wyman and Rock Hudson give memorable performances in the lead roles....
Beastmode Media: Savage Sunday ~ Live
Sunday 5 January 2025
Want to spice up your content game?Come and get the tea on camera phone settings, content hacks & strategy basics to level up your socials....
Palace Theatre Tour
Monday 6 January 2025
With a glorious history hosting stars of stage and screen including Judy Garland, Gracie Fields, Les Dawson and Charlie Chaplin, today, the Palace delights audiences with large scale musicals, plays, music and comedy acts. Palace Tours a...
An Inspector Calls
Tuesday 7 - Saturday 18 January 2025
Stephen Daldry's multi award-winning National Theatre production of JB Priestley's classic thriller returns. Hailed as the theatrical event of its generation, winning more awards than any other production in history, An Inspector Calls has ...
XS Malarkey with Lorna Rose Treen
Tuesday 7 January 2025
Since 1997 XS Malarkey has been a Manchester institution, with compere Toby Hadoke bringing you the very best comedians at the lowest prices. A minimum of just ?3 for members and ?6 for normal people- we keep tickets as low as possible to k...
A Real Pain
Wednesday 8 - Friday 10 January 2025
Family tensions resurface as mismatched cousins David and Benji reunite for a tour through Poland to honour their beloved grandmother...
Forbidden Nights
Thursday 9 January 2025
Having made their debut on Britain's Got Talent in 2015 and played to packed houses since then, the Forbidden Nights boys are still in high demand at theatres all over the country with an even bigger and hotter tour for 2023. Yes ladies, "C...
The Chicago Blues Brothers
Friday 10 January 2025
The world's biggest and best loved Blues Brothers party show is on a mission once again. As seen at the Adelphi Theatre and the Savoy Theatre in London's West End, The Chicago Blues Brothers have put the band back together to bring you t...
Candlelight - A Tribute to Oasis
Friday 10 January - Friday 28 February 2025
Discover the music of Manchester legends Oasis performed by violin under the gentle glow of candlelight in this awe-inspiring location. ...
We Call it Ballet - Sleeping Beauty in a Dazzling Light Show
Friday 10 - Thursday 16 January 2025
Experience Sleeping Beauty like never before in this dazzling dance and light show. Classical ballet and modern technology come together to create an artistic masterpiece like no other, where exquisite dancers literally light up the stage w...
Playreading Sessions
Friday 10 January 2025
HOME's popular Playreading group meets on the first Friday of most months. The sessions, which are open to all, offer an opportunity to read and discuss plays that are linked to our theatre productions, or discover new plays from local tal...
Babygirl
Friday 10 January 2025
A high-powered CEO puts her career and family on the line when she begins a torrid affair with her much younger intern. ...
Maria
Friday 10 January 2025
Maria tells the tumultuous, beautiful and tragic story of the life of the world?s greatest female opera singer, Maria Callas, during her final days in 1970s Paris. ...
BTW bolton town rascals
Friday 10 January 2025
Btw is teaming with rascals wrestling academy with stars from both promotions putting on the best action packed family entertainment...
Candlelight - A Tribute to Coldplay on Strings
Saturday 11 January 2025
A magical night of candlelit violin music paying tribute to one of the most successful and popular bands of all time: Coldplay. Since their formation in 1996, this British rock group reached the top of the rock/pop music world in the early ...
Snow White and The Seven Drag Queens
Saturday 11 January 2025
Mirror, mirror on the wall, come see the naughtiest North East Adult Panto of all! After two sell out seasons in Geordieland, the North East Adult Pantomime is back - bigger and better than ever - and this time there's no escape - as the...
RNCM Young Strings
Sunday 12 January 2025
Young Strings is one of RNCM's Junior Programmes. String players aged 6 to 13 years attend weekly classes to develop their string playing, musicianship and creativity. Two of their ensembles are delighted to be showcasing some of their lear...
Fear Eats the Soul + intro
Sunday 12 January 2025
Fassbinder's turn to the form of the Hollywood melodrama is perhaps best seen in this loose re-working of All that Heaven Allows....
Domonkos Csabay
Monday 13 January 2025
Manchester Mid-day Concerts Society present Domonkos Csabay, a UK-based Hungarian concert pianist, chamber musician and accompanist. He is currently a collaborative piano fellow at the Royal College of Music, London, studied with Andras Kem...
WAP - Wit & Poetry
Monday 13 January - Monday 9 June 2025
Comedian and poet Kat Ronson brings a new night WAP: Wit and Poetry Combining two art forms to make you laugh, cry and cry laugh. The best performers from WAP, exclusive collaborations between artists and some wild cards. ...
Pagrav Dance Company - ROOH: Within Her
Tuesday 14 January 2025
Join us for this compelling solo piece from renowned choreographer and performer Urja Desai Thakore. In ROOH: Within Her, Urja Desai Thakore explores narratives in quiet, everyday, heroism across two millennia. She stages the turmoil of a m...
Youth Theatre Taster Session
Tuesday 14 - Saturday 18 January 2025
Aged between 7 and 17 and want to find out more about the Octagon's Youth Theatre sessions? Then try this FREE taster session ahead of the next term. The weekly youth theatre sessions support young people to develop drama skills, work wi...
Mariupol Drama
Tuesday 14 - Saturday 18 January 2025
Mariupol Drama is a poignant testimony from actors who were sheltering inside the Donetsk Regional Drama Theatre in Mariupol, Ukraine during the tragic events of March 2022. ...
XS Malarkey with Helen Bauer
Tuesday 14 January 2025
Since 1997 XS Malarkey has been a Manchester institution, with compere Toby Hadoke bringing you the very best comedians at the lowest prices. A minimum of just ?3 for members and ?6 for normal people- we keep tickets as low as possible to k...
Jason Manford
Wednesday 15 January - Friday 7 November 2025
Jason Manford is back with his brand-new live show, A Manford All Seasons. The Manchester comedian has been busy since his last smash-hit stand up show but fans of his Absolute Radio show will know this nationally acclaimed comedian hasn't...
