THEATRE IN MANCHESTER
Most Popular Theatre in Manchester
Here You Come Again - The New Dolly Parton Musical
The Lowry
Tue 29 Oct - Sat 2 Nov 2024
New Dawn Fades: A Play About Joy Division and Manchester
The Met
Wed 9 - Sat 19 Oct 2024
Only Fools and Horses The Musical
Manchester Opera House
Mon 11 - Sat 23 Nov 2024
Queen of the Night - A Tribute to Whitney Houston
Pyramid and Parr Hall
Fri 13 Sep 2024 - Sun 1 Jun 2025
Circus Extreme
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Tatton Park, Knutsford
Friday 20 - Sunday 29 September 2024
Circus Extreme is thrilled to be returning to the UK. A one-of-a-kind performance, that has been five years in the making and features some of the most talented performers in the world. The United Kingdom was specifically chosen as the l...Garry Starr - Monkeys Everywhere
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The Lowry, Salford
Friday 20 - Sunday 22 September 2024
Join award-winning performer Damien Warren-Smith as he tries to find a calmer place to be amongst the madness of the monkey business that fills his mind in this show for all ages - but especially for those who can't always keep their monke...Oh What A Night! - Celebration of Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons
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Queen Elizabeth Hall, Oldham
Friday 20 September 2024
Go back in time on a musical journey through the incredible career of Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons - now immortalised in the multi-award winning show Jersey Boys, which has been packing theatres worldwide since its debut in 2005. Valli'...Ruby Wax
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St Helens Theatre Royal, St Helens
Friday 20 September - Friday 18 October 2024
After a complete sell-out first run in 2023, Ruby Wax's rawest, darkest, funniest and most compelling stage show yet announces brand new dates for 2024, thanks to enormous demand. 'I'm Not As Well As I Thought I Was' is Ruby's first tou...Murder Mystery Evening
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East Lancashire Railway, Bury
Friday 20 September - Friday 13 December 2024
Nothing works up an appetite like exercising those brain cells. So bring your best detective skills and join us for a night of mystery and murder on one of our stunning heritage steam trains. If you love Agatha Christie or Sherlock Holmes -...An Evening With Guy Chambers
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Waterside, Manchester
Friday 20 September 2024
Guy Chambers' profile has never been higher, featuring heavily in the No. 1 trending Robbie Williams documentary on Netflix. In 'An Evening with Guy Chambers', a member of the audience has a chance to be brought on stage to write a song on ...Manchester Camerata - Mozart, Made in Manchester
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The Stoller Hall, Manchester
Friday 20 September 2024
Manchester Camerata are back with another edition of their hugely successful Mozart, Made in Manchester series. Achieving 5-Star reviews from The Telegraph and BBC Music Magazine, this is Mozart, at his very best, performed with the undenia...SK Shlomo - Breathe
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HOME, Manchester
Friday 20 September 2024
Described by The Times as a "one-person music festival", international non-binary beatboxing star SK Shlomo returns with award-winning gig-theatre solo show Breathe: a rollercoaster love-letter to the lifesaving power of beats, bass and br...Befuddled
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Contact, Manchester
Friday 20 - Saturday 21 September 2024
Creative Badger Productions present a fairy tale for grown-ups, with childlike innocence and a humorous dark twist. Tooth fairies, Olett and Pebbles, are issued with a tooth recovery order. Their late night mission leads them to a prison, a...BREATHE: a rollercoaster love letter to music by SK Shlomo
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HOME, Manchester
Friday 20 September 2024
International non-binary beatboxing star SK Shlomo returns with award-winning gig-theatre solo show BREATHE: a rollercoaster love-letter to the lifesaving power of beats, bass and breathing....Girls Will Be Girls + recorded intro
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HOME, Manchester
Friday 20 September 2024
In a strict boarding school nestled in the Himalayas, 16-year-old Mire discovers desire and romance; but her sexual, rebellious awakening is disrupted by her mother who never got to come-of-age herself. ...The Critic
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HOME, Manchester
Friday 20 September 2024
A deliciously dark and sharp-witted thriller set in 1930s London ?theatreland?....The Goldman Case
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HOME, Manchester
Friday 20 September 2024
This tense courtroom drama follows the 1975 trial of Pierre?Goldman, a revolutionary left-wing activist facing a life sentence. ...The Substance
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HOME, Manchester
Friday 20 September 2024
Demi Moore gives a career-best performance as Elisabeth Sparkle, a former A-lister past her prime and suddenly fired from her fitness TV show by repellent studio head Harvey....Will &038; Harper
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HOME, Manchester
Friday 20 September 2024
Will Ferrell and Harper Steele take an emotional cross-country road trip exploring what it means to be trans in the USA today....Garry Starr - Classic Penguins
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The Lowry, Salford
Saturday 21 September 2024
Literature! Literature! Literature! It might not rhyme with anything but it's still very important. Having already saved everything else, Garry Starr is back and this time he's hell-bent on saving books from extinction by performing every P...Crooners
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Middleton Arena, Manchester
Saturday 21 September 2024
Packed with personality and humour, Crooners have been wowing audiences with their witty and exhilarating show full of hilarious one liners, laugh out loud silliness and superb musical numbers with the outstanding 9-piece The Mini Big Band ...Solve-Along-A-Murder-She-Wrote
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Waterside, Manchester
Saturday 21 September 2024
Pit your wits against Jessica B. Fletcher at this interactive screening of an episode of Murder, She Wrote. Can you solve the crime before Cabot Cove's best amateur sleuth? Celebrating all things 80s television mysteries had to offer - con...COMEDYSPORTZ
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Waterside, Manchester
Saturday 21 September 2024 - Saturday 22 February 2025
You've seen football. You've seen tennis. But have you seen Comedy as a sport? Then you don't want to miss this all ages, all action, all improvised competitive comedy show! Two teams battle it out for laughs with quick-witted gags, games, ...Absolutely Britney Bottomless Brunch
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The Bread Shed, Manchester
Saturday 21 September - Saturday 21 December 2024
Drag queens, brunch, bottomless cocktails, and all the Britney hits you can handle? Look no further for a pop-tastic brunch party that was born to make you happy! This Britney special features the UK's number 1 Britney impersonator, sound-a...Family Film/ Ozi: Voice of the Forest
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HOME, Manchester
Saturday 21 September 2024
Meet Ozi, a little orphan orangutan who?s about to make a big difference when she goes on an epic adventure to save her forest home. ...Loaded
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Woodbank Cricket Club, Bolton
Saturday 21 September 2024
Loaded Festival Comes to Sedgley Park Rugby Club celebrating 90's era Music. 90's Dress to impress, Dig out your baggy jeans, Shell Suit Fancy Dress...Classical Spectacular
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The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Sunday 22 September 2024
Music Lights Lasers Fireworks! The most popular classical show in the UK returns!No other show presents such a magnificent combination of the very best in classical music and state of the art technology. Ranging from a flood of pure white l...Joshua Bassett
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O2 Apollo, Manchester
Sunday 22 September 2024
The Californian actor and pop rock singer-songwriter is best known for his starring role as Ricky Bowen in High School Musical: The Musical: The Series. As a solo musician, he has scored the international hit "Lie Lie Lie" and collaborated...Darcy & Jer
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Manchester Academy, Manchester
Sunday 22 September 2024
Stand-up comedian Darcy Michael and his husband Jeremy "Jer" Baer became TikTok sensations during lockdown, amassing millions of followers. Now, they bring their No Refunds stand-up tour to Europe. ...National Theatre Live - Prima Facie (15)
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Altrincham Garrick Playhouse, Altrincham
Sunday 22 September 2024
Jodie Comer's (Killing Eve) Olivier and Tony Award-winning performance in Suzie Miller's gripping one-woman play returns to cinemas. Tessa is a young, brilliant barrister. She has worked her way up from working class origins to be at the to...Shaun Ryder
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St Helens Theatre Royal, St Helens
Sunday 22 September 2024
He's the wild man of rock who became a national treasure. Happy Mondays and Black Grape frontman Shaun Ryder is hitting the road for a new, spoken word tour. The star of more-TV-shows-than-anyone-has-a-right-to-feature-on - including Celeb...Starve Acre (15)
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Stockport Plaza, Stockport
Sunday 22 September 2024
★★★✭ Matt Smith and Morfydd Clark play a couple who move to an isolated Yorkshire Dales estate in Daniel Kokotajlo's folk horror. ~ Little White Lies. --- Director Daniel Kokotajlo's follow up to his BAFTA nominated debut Apostasy....Meek&8217;s Cutoff
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HOME, Manchester
Sunday 22 September 2024
Set in 1845 Kelly Reichardt?s pared down western tells the story of a wagon team of three families who set off across the Oregon Trail. When they get lost and a Native American finds the travellers, he offers a way out that questions their ...Christopher Hall
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The Lowry, Salford
Monday 23 September 2024
Social media sensation Christopher tells of his life, as a 'boy who's a bit girly really' in Girl for All Seasons. From unhealthy obsessions with pop princesses, falling in line behind the School Classroom Queen Bees, and gaining life less...Lloyd Griffith
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Chorley Theatre, Chorley
Monday 23 September 2024
Fresh from supporting Jack Whitehall on his 2023 UK arena tour, comedian Lloyd Griffith is back with a brand new show "Baroque and Roll". It's a big year for Lloyd, he's turning 40 and with it, the impending midlife crisis - or 'renaissance...Andy Powell's Monday Matinee Cabaret
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Stockport Plaza, Stockport
Monday 23 September 2024
Stockport's premier live entertainer Andy Powell returns once again with another Monday afternoon extravaganza of live entertainment featuring some of the UK's finest performers. Andy's special guests include comedian Justin Moorhouse, Bill...MAF Presents/ Mary and Max + intro
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HOME, Manchester
Monday 23 September 2024
Join Manchester Animation Festival for a special 15th anniversary screening of claymation classic Mary and Max, a film about an unlikely bond that transcends age and distance, revealing the transformative power of friendship in the unlikeli...King Arthur
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The Lowry, Salford
Tuesday 24 - Saturday 28 September 2024
Award-winning funny men, Le Navet Bete, return to the stage with a a brand-new laugh-out-loud show for theatre. This hilarious retelling of the Arthurian legends, suitable for the whole family, will have audiences crying with laughter and b...Football Clichés Live
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Manchester Academy, Manchester
Tuesday 24 September 2024
Welcome to the most pedantic night of your footballing life;The Football Cliches podcast, created and presented by Adam Hurrey, was launched by The Athletic in 2020 to dive deep into the subconscious code of the world's most talked-about an...Sam Palladio
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Band On The Wall, Manchester
Tuesday 24 September 2024
Actor and musician Sam Palladio grew up in Cornwall but it was in Music City USA, Nashville Tennessee, that Sam got his musical big break playing the role of soulful, country songwriter Gunnar Scott on ABC's hit TV Drama "Nashville". Create...LASH
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Waterside, Manchester
Tuesday 24 September 2024
A brand new play from the multi award-winning creators of Jesus, Jane, Mother & Me (★★★★★ - The Stage, and Winner of Adelaide Fringe Critics Circle Award), written and directed by acclaimed playwright Philip Stokes and starring ...Youth Theatre Taster Session
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Octagon Theatre, Bolton
Tuesday 24 - Saturday 28 September 2024
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...XS Malarkey's 27th Birthday Spectacular
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53two, Manchester
Tuesday 24 September 2024
Since 1997 XS Malarkey has been a Manchester institution, with compere Toby Hadoke bringing you the very best comedians at the lowest prices, and this week we're celebrating our 27th birthday! Our birthday shows are always a good excuse to ...Husk
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Hope Mill Theatre, Manchester
Wednesday 25 - Sunday 29 September 2024
Written by Rupert Hill and Directed by Jospeh Houston, Husk is a dark, twisting tale of violence, love, addiction and revenge delivered with a dose of black humour. Ray has just been released from a long stretch behind bars. Homeles...Carolyne Faulkner - The Signs In Love
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Stockport Plaza, Stockport
Wednesday 25 September 2024
The UK's first interactive astrology show. Carolyne Faulkner has been named 'Britain's coolest astrologer' by Forbes, Grazia and The Telegraph. Carolyne wrote this decade's most famous astrology book The Signs, she created and launched the ...An American in Paris - The Musical (PG)
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Altrincham Garrick Playhouse, Altrincham
Wednesday 25 September 2024
A cinema screening of this breathtakingly beautiful 2018 Tony Award-winning Broadway musical inspired by the Oscar winning MGM film, tells the impassioned story of discovering love in the 'City of Light'. Jerry Mulligan is an American GI...Parallel Mothers
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HOME, Manchester
Wednesday 25 September 2024
Two women meet in a hospital room where they are going to give birth; the few words they exchange in those hours creates a close link between the two, with life-changing consequences....Two of Us
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HOME, Manchester
Thursday 26 - Saturday 28 September 2024
A play by Mark Stanfield, Richard Short, & Barry Sloane, based on the screenplay by Mark Stanfield. In 1976, tired of the spotlight, John Lennon chose to be a stay-at-home dad to his baby son, Sean. Paul McCartney was number one all over th...Katherine Ryan
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Pyramid and Parr Hall, Warrington
Thursday 26 September 2024
Star of UKTV's hugely popular new series Parental Guidance as well as Comedy Central's upcoming Out of Order with Rosie Jones and Judi Love, TV's beloved Katherine Ryan makes a hugely welcome return to the stage with her brand-new live stan...Clinton Baptiste
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The Met, Bury
Thursday 26 September 2024
Solo again, Britain's most celebrated clairvoyant medium psychic from Peter Kay's Phoenix Nights returns with his brand new hilarious one-man stand up show. As well as venturing into the audience to offer his unique spirit readings, Clinton...As I Am Naturally
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The Lowry, Salford
Thursday 26 - Friday 27 September 2024
The World Premiere of a journey of self-discovery and reclamation, embodying and intertwining themes of identity, landscape, touch and memory. This moving new production from performance artist Tania Camara (Oreo) features compelling spoke...The Piccadilly Sinfonietta - Vivaldi's Four Seasons by Candlelight
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Manchester Cathedral, Manchester
Friday 27 September 2024 - Saturday 21 June 2025
Few things are more magical than hearing the world's most breath-taking classical music being performed live by a brilliant orchestra in beautiful surroundings, by the flicker of candlelight. This experience comes to life when the city's...Neon Brush - Paint in the Dark Experience
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