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
There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly
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Waterside, Manchester
Friday 1 November 2024
There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly. I don't know why she swallowed a fly... But The People's Theatre Company do! And now you can too as they bring the world's best loved nonsense rhyme to life just in time to celebrate the 50th anniv...The Craft
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HOME, Manchester
Friday 1 November 2024
Fusing elements of the teen movie, coming-of-age story and witchcraft horror, The Craft has firmly established itself as a 90s cult classic...Witches
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HOME, Manchester
Friday 1 November 2024
Not a horror film or a movie doc, but a powerful personal story that uses genre tropes to explore a psychological state. ...The Gruffalo
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Z-arts, Manchester
Saturday 2 - Sunday 3 November 2024
A mouse took a stroll through the deep dark wood... Join Mouse on a daring adventure through the deep, dark wood in Tall Stories' magical, musical adaptation of the classic picture book by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler. Searching for h...The Overlook Hotel - A Live Theatre and Dining Show
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The Bowdon Rooms, Altrincham
Saturday 2 November 2024
Mr. Grady cordially invites you and your guests to The Overlook Hotel. Histoire Productions present a reimagined theatre performance and dining experience based upon Stephen King's terrifying tale 'The Shining'. Actors play out scenes based...Santi & Naz
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Octagon Theatre, Bolton
Saturday 2 November 2024
Santi and Naz are bestest-best friends living in a village in pre-partition India. One Sikh, one Muslim; they have little understanding of how religion will divide them. As partition draws closer, the girls remain oblivious to the spreading...Puppet Masters Animation Conference
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Waterside, Manchester
Saturday 2 November 2024
Creative Industries Trafford and the Cosgrove Hall Films Archive present this annual conference for fans, students and practitioners of animation, puppetry and character design. This event features a series of masterclass talks from creativ...A Desert
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HOME, Manchester
Saturday 2 November 2024
A vivid and ferocious American nightmare that might be the best horror film of the year. ...Carrie &8211; 4K Restoration
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HOME, Manchester
Saturday 2 November 2024
?If You?ve Got A Taste For Terror? Take Carrie To The Prom!?...Rita
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HOME, Manchester
Saturday 2 November 2024
A dark fantasy set in an institution that ?rescues? wayward young girls. ...BTW Bonfire Fury 4
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Bolton Lads And Girls Club, Bolton
Saturday 2 November 2024
Our annual bonfire extravaganza, this year taking place at bolton lads and girls club. Another action packed family friendly show...Jane McDonald
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The Lowry, Salford
Sunday 3 November 2024
Star of stage and screen and singing sensation Jane McDonald is back with a new tour for 2024. With All My Love will see Jane travel to more than 20 theatres and arenas across the UK, including The Lowry, performing the songs you love as we...Jack Rhodes
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Albert Hall, Manchester
Sunday 3 November 2024
Amassing over 125 million views online with his unique brand of comedy, magic and nonsense, and a stand-out performance on Britains Got Talent 2024, Jack Rhodes is finally leaving his garage and heading out on the road for his first live to...Greg Jenner - Totally Chaotic History: Roman Britain Gets Rowdy
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The Lowry, Salford
Sunday 3 November 2024
Join ex-Horrible Histories historian and chart-topping You're Dead to Me podcaster Greg Jenner, as he goes back in time to explore Roman Britain! You can expect myth-busting, quick-fire quizzes and to discover mind-boggling truths about eve...Jason Byrne
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The Lowry, Salford
Sunday 3 November 2024
The biggest selling comedian at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Jason Byrne's inspired, original brand of high-energy intelligent lunacy ensures that there is no other comedian like him and his sell out shows have attracted accolades includi...Chicago
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Palace Theatre, Manchester
Monday 4 - Saturday 9 November 2024
CHICAGO, the "sexiest musical ever" (Metro) is back."Murder, greed, corruption, exploitation, adultery and treachery... all those things we hold near and dear to our hearts" So begins the international multi-award-winning musical, CHICAGO. ...An Evening with Richard Dawkins
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The Lowry, Salford
Monday 4 November 2024
Settle in for an unforgettable evening with Richard Dawkins, the world-renowned evolutionary biologist, author, and public intellectual, as he embarks on a highly anticipated tour across the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, and Europe...Nat's What I Reckon
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Manchester Academy, Manchester
Monday 4 November 2024
Australian viral comedy champion, rock musician, mental health advocate and award-winning, best-selling author Nat's What I Reckon has sold out tours and comedy festivals, published three books, a board game and a podcast, and clocked up ov...Simon Brodkin
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The Lowry, Salford
Tuesday 5 November 2024
Simon Brodkin: Screwed Up After selling out 110 dates across the UK and Europe, Simon Brodkin, the world-famous prankster, Lee Nelson creator and most-watched British stand-up comedian on TikTok, brings his outrageous stand-up show to Salfo...The Haunting of Blaine Manor
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The Lowry, Salford
Tuesday 5 - Wednesday 6 November 2024
Renowned American parapsychologist Doctor Roy Earle, famous for discrediting hauntings and exposing fake mediums, is invited to attend a seance in what is said to be the most haunted building in England, a building with a horrific history, ...Follow the Signs
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HOME, Manchester
Tuesday 5 - Saturday 9 November 2024
Fuse Theatre in association with Soho Theatre presents a fully BSL-led hip-hop gig theatre show. Follow the Signs is performed through BSL, rap, spoken English, movement, and creative captioning, to be shared and celebrated by Deaf and hea...John Bishop
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Stockport Plaza, Stockport
Wednesday 6 - Thursday 7 November 2024
Comedian, TV presenter and actor John Bishop took a less travelled route into show business. Born and raised in Liverpool, the younger Bishop was a semi-professional footballer for Southport and Hyde United, following in the footsteps of ol...OUTPATIENT
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The Lowry, Salford
Wednesday 6 - Saturday 9 November 2024
Fresh from their Edinburgh run, Crowded Room (The Listening Room, EDITH) return with OUTPATIENT: an explosive autobiographical comedy about the fantasies of human minds and the fragility of human bodies. DEATH. It's coming for us all, so wh...Most Haunted - The Stage Show
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Middleton Arena, Manchester
Wednesday 6 November 2024
The acclaimed World No.1 paranormal show, the multi-award winning Most Haunted is the original and most successful worldwide paranormal investigation television series ever made and premiers its spine-chilling theatre show in 2023/24. Pres...Simon Reeve
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Pyramid and Parr Hall, Warrington
Thursday 7 November 2024
Author and TV presenter, Simon Reeve is one of the world's most adventurous travellers. His unique brand of documentary film-making combines travel and adventure with current affairs, history, wildlife, culture and conservation. His journey...Creepy Boys
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Contact, Manchester
Thursday 7 November 2024
From real-life-lovers-turned-identical-twins, Sam Kruger (Winner - Just for Laughs Comedy Award 2019) and S.E. Grummett (Winner - Best Theatre, Adelaide Fringe 2021) comes a bizarre comedy with just a splash of the occult. You're invit...Geraint Thomas & Luke Rowe - Watts Occuring
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The Lowry, Salford
Friday 8 November 2024
Join Tour de France winner Geraint Thomas and his best mate, super domestique and podcast co-host Luke Rowe, for their first-ever Watts Occurring live show. The two Welshmen will bring their usual mix of cycling comedy and brutally honest i...The Brief Life and Mysterious Death of Boris III
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The Lowry, Salford
Friday 8 - Saturday 9 November 2024
Award-winning Out Of The Forest Theatre's irreverent comedy - featuring live music inspired by Bulgarian and Jewish folk tunes - tells the incredible true story that the world forgot. The year is 1943 and Bulgaria has just told Hitler where...Candlelight - The Best of West End Musicals
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Hallé St Peter's, Manchester
Friday 8 November 2024
Discover the music from West End musicals performed by a string quarter in this awe-inspiring location under the gentle glow of candlelight. ...Manford's Comedy Club
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Altrincham Garrick Playhouse, Altrincham
Friday 8 November 2024
Bringing the best comedians to a theatre near you. Every show has a different line-up of four top comedians, all chosen by Jason Manford! Many comedians from TV plus the best of the UK and International comedy circuit. Live at the Apollo.. ...Aurelio Voltaire
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Rebellion, Manchester
Friday 8 November 2024
Aurelio Voltaire is often described as a modern day renaissance man. He is a singer/ performer, creator of comic books, animation and toys. An internationally touring musician, he is at the forefront of the Gothic, Steampunk and Dark Cabare...Jason Manford
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King George's Hall, Blackburn
Saturday 9 November 2024
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...An Audience with Lucy Worsley on Jane Austen
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The Lowry, Salford
Saturday 9 November 2024
Following her sold-out Agatha Christie tour, acclaimed historian Lucy Worsley leads us into the life of one of English literature's most cherished figures. For these live, beautifully-illustrated talks, Lucy invites audiences to step into t...Dick & Angel Strawbridge - Escape to the Chateau
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The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Saturday 9 November 2024
Spend an entertaining evening with the stars of Channel 4 hit Escape to the Chateau, Dick and Angel Strawbridge, and experience the Chateau like never before. Over the past eight years, millions of viewers across the world have been enthral...An Audience with Monty Don
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The Lowry, Salford
Sunday 10 November 2024
Join BBC Gardeners' World presenter and gardening writer, Monty Don, as he shares his passion for gardens and the unique role they play in human inspiration and wellbeing. Monty has been making television programmes for over 30 years and ha...Grace Campbell
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The Lowry, Salford
Sunday 10 - Monday 18 November 2024
Grace Campbell, "one of the funniest women in Britain" (Times), is On Heat. About to enter her 30s, Campbell has recently made some huge life changes. She got a dog, she stopped replying to internet trolls, she tried non-monogamy, and then...Ned Boulting
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The Lowry, Salford
Sunday 10 November 2024
ITV's Tour de France commentator Ned Boulting returns again. But this time he's 101 years too late for the 1923 Tour de France! In his latest celebration of the greatest race on earth, Ned delves into the hidden mysteries of a mysterious ro...THE MAKINGS OF A MURDERER 2 - THE REAL MANHUNTER
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Stockport Plaza, Stockport
Sunday 10 November 2024
Following sell-out shows nationwide, the UK's top true crime theatre tour is back with a brand-new lineup!Featuring Senior Investigating officer Colin Sutton, who caught serial killer Levi Bellfield and 'Night Stalker' Delroy Grant. Join us...NOAHFINNCE
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New Century Hall, Manchester
Sunday 10 November 2024
NOAHFINNCE is the alias of Noah Adams, a voice for a generation who are fed up of being told how to be. A virtuoso performer (he plays drums, guitar, bass, ukulele, and sings as LOUD as possible), NOAHFINNCE is ready to flip off traditio...Nature Elly
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The Lowry, Salford
Sunday 10 November 2024
A puppet theatre show created especially for 2-5 year olds, full of interactive fun, beautifully written original music and a cast of stunning and adorable animal puppets for little ones to meet. Created by award-winning Barmpot Theatre, in...ABC - An Intimate Evening with Martin Fry
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Waterside, Manchester
Sunday 10 November 2024
The hits earned their place in pop history. From Poison Arrow to The Look Of Love, from All Of My Heart, and Be Near Me, to When Smokey Sings, ABC were the band that redefined glamour and cool. Led by the charismatic Mancunian Martin Fry, t...Hauntings
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Waterside, Manchester
Sunday 10 November 2024
Hauntings is a spellbinding evening of three tales of the supernatural during which the award-winning actor, Gerard Logan, will take you to world of invisible, but terrifyingly present, spirits. The evening includes MR James' classic, 'Oh, ...Only Fools and Horses The Musical
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Manchester Opera House, Manchester
Monday 11 - Saturday 23 November 2024
Stick a pony in your pocket - The Trotters are back and coming to a town near you! The smash hit show Only Fools and Horses The Musical - direct from a record-breaking four-year sold-out run-in London's West End - featuring Del Boy, Rodney,...Ant Middleton
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The Lowry, Salford
Monday 11 November 2024
This year, Ant Middleton returns to the UK stage to talk all things K2; from the gut-wrenching experience of leaving his family to travel to one of the most dangerous mountains in the world - and the consecutive obstacles he had to surmount...Talk Of The Devils - Live
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The Lowry, Salford
Monday 11 November 2024
The world's biggest Manchester United podcast brought to you by The Athletic returns to the live stage. Back by popular demand, the sell-out tour is returning, and you don't want to miss it, as they bring you exclusive insight and knowl...Elf The Musical
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Palace Theatre, Manchester
Tuesday 12 - Sunday 17 November 2024
Based on the cherished 2003 New Line Cinema hit, Elf features songs by Tony Award nominees Matthew Sklar and Chad Beguelin (Disney's Aladdin On Broadway, The Wedding Singer), with a book by Tony Award winners Thomas Meehan (Annie, The Produ...Simon Brodkin
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St Helens Theatre Royal, St Helens
Tuesday 12 November 2024
Simon Brodkin: Screwed Up After selling out 110 dates across the UK and Europe, Simon Brodkin, the world-famous prankster, Lee Nelson creator and most-watched British stand-up comedian on TikTok, brings his outrageous stand-up show to Salfo...Wonder Boy
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The Lowry, Salford
Tuesday 12 - Saturday 16 November 2024
Olivier Award-winner Sally Cookson (A Monster Calls) directs the critically acclaimed Bristol Old Vic production of WONDER BOY by Ross Willis, a heart-warming and inspiring story about the power of communication for ages 12+ Sonny is twelve...After the Act
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HOME, Manchester
Tuesday 12 - Saturday 16 November 2024
Breach Theatre presents a new 1980's-inspired musical about pride, protest... and abseiling lesbians. Thatcher's Section 28, which banned the "promotion" of homosexuality in schools, was the landmark legislation that silenced a generation, ...Kevin Bloody Wilson
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