WHAT'S ON AT LOWRY, SALFORD
Lowry at Salford Quays opened in 2000 and boasts two theatres, a drama studio, galleries, and events spaces. The Lyric is the largest UK stage outside the West End with a capacity of 1730. The Quays has a capacity of 440. It hosts diverse events and shows from operas, dance, musicals, plays, comedy, exhibitions, visual / digital arts, and workshops and has premiered shows such as 42 Balloons.
A registered charity, Lowry offer free creative participation opportunities. Their eight partner companies are Access All Areas, Birmingham Royal Ballet, Far From the Norm, LUNG, National Theatre, Ockham’s Razor, Opera North and Rambert.
Lowry has many great shows lined up including Chicago, To Kill A Mockingbird, Death of a Salesman, The Red Shoes, Death on the Nile, Blood Brothers, SIX, The Addams Family, Dear England, Derren Brown and The Lion The Witch & The Wardrobe. See what's on at Lowry below and book tickets online.
Most Popular Shows and Events at Lowry, Salford
What's On at Lowry, Salford
Death of a Salesman

Lyric Theatre
Tuesday 29 April - Saturday 3 May 2025
One of the greatest plays of the twentieth century, Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman explodes onto the stage in this fresh new production led by acclaimed actor David Hayman (Sid and Nancy, Dad's Army). This timeless, powerful story tak...Gods of Salford

Quays Theatre
Tuesday 29 - Wednesday 30 April 2025
In their 25th year, Lowry celebrate the trailblazers, dream chasers and change makers who have been part of our story so far and will undoubtedly shape our future, the inspirational young people in our city. GODS OF SALFORD is a Lowry Comm...The Lowry Dance & Drama Workshops

Lowry, Salford
Tuesday 29 April - 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...The Lowry Visual Arts Workshops

Lowry, Salford
Tuesday 29 April - 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 the sch...Pre-Theatre Dining at The Lowry

Restaurant and Bar
Tuesday 29 April 2025 - Saturday 6 June 2026
Enjoy lunch, pre-matinee, dinner and pre-theatre dining at The Lowry, overlooking the stunning waterside setting of Salford Quays and MediaCityUK. Pier Eight Restaurant is located on the ground floor of The Lowry. ...Julian Clary

Lyric Theatre
Thursday 1 May 2025
Julian Clary, renowned homosexual and national trinket, is fixing to saddle up and head on out for his 2024 UK tour. "Yes, it has a Western theme," the old buckaroo confirms, sipping Bourbon from a pint tankard. "It was only a matter of tim...Babies Playtime

Lowry Lookout
Thursday 1 May 2025
A great opportunity to meet other parents and socialise babies, come along to The Lowry's fun and friendly activity for babies. In this session you and your little ones will sing, dance and get creative.10am-10.45am: For babies under 1 (pre...The Baddies

Quays Theatre
Friday 2 - Sunday 4 May 2025
Based on the book by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler and presented by Freckle Productions & The Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh. Meet the very worst Baddies in the world! Don't you dare to come too close to a witch, a troll and an ancient...Under 5s Little Creatives

Lowry, Salford
Friday 2 May 2025
Come along to Little Creatives in The Lookout for 45 minutes of fun. These sessions are designed for children age 2-5yrs with lots of engaging activities for them to get involved with. All attenders (child and adult) must book a ticket and ...Richard Herring

Quays Theatre
Saturday 3 May 2025
In 2021 Richard Herring went to his GP to find out why his right ball seemed to be growing bigger. It turned out that he had testicular cancer and one month later he was lying in hospital waiting to have his murderous gonad removed. Would h...LOWRY 360

Lowry Gallery
Saturday 3 May - Sunday 31 August 2025
A unique opportunity to immerse yourself in the sights and sounds of LS Lowry's iconic work, Going to the Match, in the UK's first free permanent immersive experience.  Created in collaboration with Barcelona's renowned Immersive studi...Skipinnish

Quays Theatre
Monday 5 May 2025
Skipinnish encompasses the very best of contemporary Celtic music with a unique and sublime mix of chart-topping, self-penned songs and powerful bagpipe, fiddle and accordion-led tune sets. As a result, the band has built a loyal and strong...Aakash Odedra Company - Songs of the Bulbul

Lyric Theatre
Tuesday 6 May 2025
Leicester's award-winning international dance company Aakash Odedra unites with musical greats, Abi Sampa, Sarthak Kalyani, Rushil Ranjan and forty of Manchester Camerata's musicians for a unique live orchestral performance of Songs ...Levison Wood - Walking The World: A Life of Exploration and Adventure

Quays Theatre
Tuesday 6 May 2025
Join Levison Wood, the world-renowned explorer, best-selling author and TV presenter, as he embarks on his fifth UK theatre tour, Walking the World: A Life of Exploration and Adventure. This brand-new show will celebrate the human spirit an...Live at Lowry - Phil Wang, John Kearns, Sophie Duker, Dan Nightingale and Flo & Joan

Lowry, Salford
Wednesday 7 May 2025
Move over, Apollo... Â Â We love to laugh, and we know you do too! Join us as we celebrate 25 years of top stand-up here at Lowry. Â Â This is your chance to catch some of the nation's best comedy talent, all under one roof in an evening fu...Ed Night

The Studio
Wednesday 7 May 2025
Hi there, I'm Ed Night. I'm a stand-up comedian. I've just come back from the Edinburgh Fringe and soon enough it'll be time for me to sling a microphone over my shoulder and start hopping on boxcars bound for every corner of this dusty old...Horatio Gould

The Studio
Wednesday 7 - Friday 9 May 2025
Following his sell-out debut show, viral sensation Horatio Gould brings his much-anticipated sophomore show, Return of the Space Cowboy, on the road. At the age of 27, Horatio is tribal elder of Gen Z. Existing on the cusp of two age group...Opera della Luna - The Mikado

Quays Theatre
Thursday 8 - Saturday 10 May 2025
Opera della Luna's 30th Anniversary celebrations continue with a revival of the company's legendary production of The Mikado, its most colourful and popular production ever. This astonishing and inventive company have achieved nation-wide r...Trygve Wakenshaw - Silly Little Things

The Studio
Thursday 8 May 2025
Trygve Wakenshaw brings his hilarious mime-clown-comedy show. Light and silly, absurd and Dada, and a sort of autobiographical, introspective look at all the silly little things that can make or break a friendship. Ranked in the top 5 of be...Lowry CAT - Open Dance Class

Studio 3
Thursday 8 - Thursday 22 May 2025
Calling all young people aged 8-14Â 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...Mark Normand

Lyric Theatre
Friday 9 May 2025
Dubbed by Jerry Seinfeld as the "best young up and coming comic," New Orleans stand-up comedian and actor Mark Normand is quickly becoming one of the most talked about touring comedians on the scene. Normand's one-hour Netflix special, Sou...Zakir Khan

Lyric Theatre
Saturday 10 May 2025
In Hindi. To say that Zakir Khan is just a popular stand-up comedian would be to miss his larger impact entirely. His is the most unlikely of stories - a college drop-out from Indore whose preferred medium is Hindi, breaking into an English...Kook Ensemble - Sand

The Studio
Saturday 10 May 2025
Sand is Circus Theatre group Kook Ensemble's second show, hard on the heels of their critically acclaimed tour of 'Filibuster' in 2024. Dylan has dementia. Heather must watch the love of her life drift away and battle with the erosion of hi...Tom Rosenthal (Comedian)

The Studio
Saturday 10 May 2025 - Sunday 10 May 2026
Arctic Monkeys' album, Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not, hit the shelves in January 2006. Tracks like 'I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor' and 'When the Sun Goes Down' became anthems, showcasing Alex Turner's sharp lyrics ...Austentatious - An Improvised Jane Austen Novel

Lyric Theatre
Sunday 11 May 2025
The award-winning smash-hit comedy, as seen in the West End every week since 2022, and heard on BBC Radio 4, comes to you on a strictly limited tour. For one delightful evening only, the all-star Austentatious cast will improvise a hilariou...Gandini Juggling - Heka

Quays Theatre
Sunday 11 May 2025
 Juggling and Magic are like long-lost sisters. So similar and yet so different. Heka (the Egyptian goddess of magic!) is the title of Award-winning contemporary circus company Gandini Juggling's new show. Drawing inspiration from the in...An Evening with Aggers and Tuffers

Lyric Theatre
Monday 12 May 2025
Cricket legends Aggers and Tuffers are BACK and ready to bowl you over as they return to the stage with their highly anticipated 2025 tour! With a collective career of over 5 decades, Aggers and Tuffers have remained connected to the sporti...An Evening With Niall Harbison - How Rescuing Dogs Saved Me

Lyric Theatre
Wednesday 14 May 2025
What's the one thing a dog can teach us? ForNiall Harbison, it was everything. A few years ago, Niall's life looked very different. Addiction had almost got the better of him, but when he came across a dog shackled to a short chain, malnou...Circa - Humans 2.0

Lyric Theatre
Wednesday 14 May 2025
A symphony of acrobatics, sound and light, this is next level circus by Circa. Ten bodies appear in a flash of light. They move in harmony for a fleeting moment and then descend into a sinuous trance. Towers grow and decay, bodies leap and ...Gary Clarke Company - Detention

Quays Theatre
Wednesday 14 - Thursday 15 May 2025
Barnsley's pioneering, award-winning dance theatre company Gary Clarke Company proudly presents its highly anticipated new dance theatre show, Detention, sequel to the multi award-winning Coal and critically acclaimed Wasteland. Detention e...Sophie McCartney

Lyric Theatre
Thursday 15 May 2025
After a phenomenal debut tour, award-winning comedian Sophie McCartney is back! A new decade beckons and she DOES NOT BELIEVE IT! What does life look like when you're too old to be young, but too young to be old? Grab your glow sticks and j...The Dad's Army Radio Show

Lyric Theatre
Friday 16 May 2025
The nation's favourite sitcom returns! The boys are delighted to head to Lowry with three new episodes. Two actors, two microphones, over twenty-five characters - and lots of sound effects! Dad's Army Radio Show bring's Perry and Croft's cl...Home and Away - The Early Years

Lowry, Salford
Friday 16 May 2025
You Know We Belong Together... Relive the nostalgia and magic of Home and Away with a live 'in conversation' celebration of Australia's iconic series! Join Kimberley Cooper (Gypsy Nash) and Nick Hardcastle (Tim O'Connell) as they guide ...China Crisis

Quays Theatre
Friday 16 May 2025
 Eddie Lundon and Gary Daly are the founder members of the synth pop band which started in Kirkby, Merseyside back in 1979. China Crisis found major success in the UK with five Top 40 singles, ten Top 50 singles and three Top 40 albums an...Henning Wehn

Lyric Theatre
Saturday 17 May 2025
With his new show, Acid Wehn, award-deserving German Comedy Ambassador Henning Wehn takes an unbiased look at climate change, a topic sure to delight audiences and no surprise. After all, everyone loves talking about the weather. Rain or sh...Beyond the Barricade

Quays Theatre
Saturday 17 May 2025
Beyond the Barricade, the UK's longest running Musical Theatre Concert Tour, is celebrating its 25th Anniversary in 2024. Join the cast for two hours of the best of Broadway and the West End, featuring the songs that have made audiences ret...Steven Wilson (Porcupine Tree)

Lyric Theatre
Sunday 18 May 2025
 Steven Wilson is an self taught composer, musician, singer, songwriter and record producer from Hemel Hempstead. Currently a successful solo artist with three UK Top 5 albums to his name, he was the founder, guitarist, lead vocalist and...Benji Waterhouse

The Studio
Sunday 18 May 2025
Described by The Times as "the Adam Kay of mental health care", NHS psychiatrist, award-winning comedian, and Sunday Times best-selling author Benji Waterhouse - is going on his first book tour! Through a mixture of stand-up and chapter...Modern Table Dance Company - Ham:beth

Quays Theatre
Tuesday 20 May 2025
K-pop boy-band meets Shakespearean drama in this energetic all-male show by award-winning South Korean dance company Modern Table Dance Company, led by choreographer Kim Jae Duk. 8 dancers in slick suits battle against the pressure to conf...Abi Clarke

The Studio
Tuesday 20 May - Sunday 1 June 2025
 Join stand-up comedian and online sensation Abi Clarke for her debut tour, "Role Model." Abi Clarke lived the modern-day dream. She posted a video online, went to bed a "nobody", then woke to thousands of followers. Four years later - ...Peggy Seeger - 90th Birthday Farewell Tour

Quays Theatre
Wednesday 21 May 2025
 The charismatic Peggy Seeger - singer-songwriter, feminist, icon, Ewan MacColl's partner and muse - is the undisputed queen of folk and political song. The grande dame of American and British Folk music, embarks on her last ever concert ...How to get to Lowry, Salford
Lowry Frequently Asked Questions
Pier 8, The Quays, Salford, M50 3AZ
The nearest parking is available at the Quayside multi-storey car park (formally Lowry Outlet). For further information, please click here.
The tram offers the closet stops to Lowry. Media City UK and Imperial War Museum are the nearest metrolink stops. Click here for a metrolink map.
The nearest train stations to Lowry are Eccles Train Station, Irlam Train Station, and Salford Train Station.
The capacity of The Lyric theatre at Lowry is 1730. The capacity of The Quats Theatre is 440. The capacity of The Aldridge Studio is 150. For further seating plan information please click here.
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If you would like to buy a ticket in person from Lowry Box Office for shows commencing that day, for AM shows they open for 1 hour before the show and close 15 minutes after the show starts. For PM shows they open 2 hours before commencing that day and close 15 minutes after the show starts. Alternatively, you can see what's on and book online here. To book tickets by phone, call 0161 876 2004
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