WHAT'S ON AT LOWRY, SALFORD
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.
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.
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.
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
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What's On at Lowry, Salford
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 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 and hits across...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 ...Ali Chahrour - The Love Behind My Eyes
Quays Theatre
Saturday 24 May 2025
Choreographer and dancer Ali Chahrour presents The Love Behind My Eyes, a powerful exploration of love, loss, and longing. Inspired by the tragic story of Mohamed Bin Daoud, a revered Iraqi jurist whose devotion to a young man consumed hi...There's A Monster in Your Show
Quays Theatre
Tuesday 27 May - Sunday 1 June 2025
Tom Fletcher's interactive adventures for big imaginations are leaping from page to stage, as the beloved 'Who's in Your Book?' series makes its debut as a brand-new musical show. A group of performers are preparing to start their show, but...Dear England
Lyric Theatre
Thursday 29 May - Sunday 29 June 2025
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'A theatrical spectacle as uplifting as any England victory.' TELEGRAPH The National Theatre's Olivier-Award winning smash hit is coming to Salford for four weeks only, following a record-breaking run in the West End. The co...Myra's Story
Quays Theatre
Thursday 29 - Friday 30 May 2025
Direct from London's West End, where every performance received a huge standing ovation and the smash hit of four Edinburgh fringes. The incredible story of middle-aged homeless alcoholic, Myra McLaughlin living rough on the streets of Dubl...Jarlath Regan
Quays Theatre
Saturday 31 May 2025
The Brand New Standup Comedy Show From "Yer Man" off Instagram. After 2 years of making us laugh out loud into our phones, hundreds of millions of views, thousands of seats filled across America, Ireland and the U.K. - "The jewel in the...Becky Namgauds - The Heat
Quays Theatre
Tuesday 3 June 2025
The Hear, a surreal dance theatre piece by Becky Namgauds, begins in the realm of the domestic space. As the landscape unravels, cracks appear, and through them seep the dark psyche, simmering desires, and moments of biting absurdity transf...Robin Ince
Quays Theatre
Wednesday 4 June 2025
A journey through the minds that populate the planet and may populate the universe beyond. An hour of joy and curiosity with the presenter of The multi award winning Infinite Monkey Cage. Expect stories of chimpanzees and astronauts, of sta...The Play's The Thing: A One Person Hamlet
The Studio
Wednesday 4 June 2025
'Mark Lockyer has absolute commitment and mastery of this timeless classic' Rufus Norris. Artistic Director, Royal National Theatre With all the characters played by one actor, stunningly simple staging, and all the language we love, we ...Sorry (I Broke Your Arm and Legs)
The Studio
Thursday 5 June 2025
A riotous debut PowerPoint presentation from James Akka (Thanks A Lot, Milton Jones!), combining all the thrills of World Book Day with the hilarity of the Maths Olympiad. Sam's obviously the correct choice for Head Boy. He's got the Powe...Upswing - Showdown
Quays Theatre
Friday 6 - Saturday 7 June 2025
Six extraordinary acrobats but only one winner. Who will be the "new face of circus"? Part talent show, part beauty pageant with a touch of the Hunger Games, Showdown, from multi-award-winning UK-based contemporary circus company Upswing, c...Local
The Studio
Friday 6 June 2025
A show about home, belonging or not, and letting go. 'Local' is a solo show where storyteller Liz Richardson revisits her childhood memories and home in West Cumbria in an attempt to understand whether she still belongs there, or ever did. ...Rory Bremner
Quays Theatre
Sunday 8 June 2025
What happens when Britain's sharpest political impressionist steps out from behind the masks? For four decades, Rory Bremner has been the voice of our times - quite literally. Now, in this intimate new show, the master mimic & satirist comb...
Thick & Tight - Natural Behaviour
Quays Theatre
Tuesday 10 - Wednesday 11 June 2025
After last year's award-winning tour of Tits & Teeth, Thick & Tight present a brand new variety show Natural Behaviour, a collection of performed portraits of human and non-human life forms. Outrageous, beautiful, hilarious and profound, Na...Lil.Miss.Lady
Quays Theatre
Friday 13 - Saturday 14 June 2025
Part rave, part drama - LIL. MISS. LADY (Lady Lykez) from HighRise Entertainment explores the history of Grime through the eyes of a vigorous female MC. From the early stages of Jungle, ravers will take an immersive journey through the soun...Showstopper! The Improvised Musical
Quays Theatre
Friday 20 - Saturday 21 June 2025
Spontaneous musical comedy at its absolute finest - direct from the West End - this smash-hit 2016 Olivier Award-winning improvised show brings something new to life at each and every performance! Transforming audience suggestions into al...The Showstoppers Kids' Show
Quays Theatre
Saturday 21 June 2025
An improvised musical show for kids of all ages (5+), from Olivier Award-winning West End improvisers, The Showstoppers. If your children could create their very own dream musical - where would they start? The Showstoppers' Kids Show ta...
An Evening Without Kate Bush
Quays Theatre
Sunday 22 June 2025
Howl with the Hounds of Love and dance on the moors with Wuthering Heights! She's not there - but you are. Whether you've been a fan for decades or recently joined the shoal via the 'Stranger Things' phenomenon, there has never been a bette...Tom Lawrinson
Quays Theatre
Sunday 29 June 2025
Everything is awful but that's okay, argues Tom in his ridiculously entertaining show about family and growing up in a Spanish subterranean cave. Buried Alive (and Loving It) is a show for siblings who shared a rubbish childhood and comedy ...Matthew Bourne's The Midnight Bell
Lyric Theatre
Tuesday 1 - Saturday 5 July 2025
Matthew Bourne's award-winning The Midnight Bell comes to Salford for the first time in 2025. In 1930s London ordinary people emerge from cheap boarding houses nightly to pour out their passions, hopes and dreams in the pubs and fog-bound s...Anton & Giovanni - Together Again
Lyric Theatre
Sunday 13 July 2025
The nation's favourite double act, Anton Du Beke and Giovanni Pernice, are Together Again in 2025 with a BRAND NEW SHOW. Anton & Giovanni - Together Again is going to be the smash-hit tour of the summer... More fun, more dance, more song...Quadrophenia - A Mod Ballet
Lyric Theatre
Tuesday 15 - Saturday 19 July 2025
Presented by Sadler's Wells and Universal Music UK Meet the new generation... In 1973, guitar smashing rock genius Pete Townshend wrote QUADROPHENIA. Recorded by The Who - it quickly became an iconic and multi-million selling album. Quadrop...In the Night Garden Live
Lyric Theatre
Saturday 26 - Sunday 27 July 2025
Igglepiggle, Upsy Daisy, Makka Pakka and friends are back in their fun-filled live show Igglepiggle's Busy Day! Join Igglepiggle as he looks for his friends in the Night Garden by following their funny sounds until he finds them all! You'll...The Lancashire Hotpots
Quays Theatre
Saturday 26 July 2025
There's only one thing more satisfying than a visit to the chippy and that's an evening with The Lancashire Hotpots. St. Helens' finest are the undisputed kings of the Northern "knees up" with banging comedy folk anthems such as "Chippy Te...Chris Grace
The Studio
Saturday 26 July 2025
Acclaimed actor and comedian Chris Grace (as seen in Superstore) brings his newest show to town for one night. Sardines explores the tragic, hilarious, and important questions of our time: Can we enjoy life if we know how it ends? Does ma...Viggo Venn
Quays Theatre
Sunday 27 July 2025
Norwegian clown Viggo Venn moved to this country with one dream: to be a British comedian. The rest, you already know about. After blowing away the competition in an explosion of hi-vis jackets, balloons, and joyous idiocy, Viggo became the...SIX
Lyric Theatre
Tuesday 29 July - Sunday 3 August 2025
The international smash hit musical SIX is back! Multi award-winning with a spectacularly successful studio album adored on playlists across the globe, this sell-out Tudor take-off has 'an incredibly strong and powerful message. Boundary-pu...
A Squash and A Squeeze
Quays Theatre
Tuesday 5 - Sunday 24 August 2025
A musical adaptation of the best-selling book for ages 3-8. Based on the original book A Squash and a Squeeze - written by Julia Donaldson and illustrated by Axel Scheffler. Step into the magical world of A Squash and a Squeeze live on ...By Royal Appointment
Lyric Theatre
Wednesday 6 - Saturday 9 August 2025
The late Queen Elizabeth II was famous for her discretion. She never said anything in public that could ruffle the lightest of feathers. But she had one way of expressing what she really thought - through her wardrobe. By Royal Appointment ...The Addams Family
Lyric Theatre
Tuesday 12 - Saturday 16 August 2025
MAKE THIS SUMMER AN ABSOLUTE SCREAM! Following two hugely successful UK tours, and sold-out concerts at The London Palladium last year, everyone's favourite kooky family are back on stage this summer in THE ADDAMS FAMILY, the spectacular mu...Chicago
Lyric Theatre
Monday 25 - Saturday 30 August 2025
CHICAGO, the "sexiest musical ever" (Metro) comes to Lowry in August for a full week only starring Strictly Come Dancing Professional Dancer and TV Star Janette Manrara (It Takes Two, Burn The Floor, Glee) as Roxie Hart. "Murder, greed, cor...Derren Brown
Lyric Theatre
Tuesday 2 - Saturday 13 September 2025
Prepare to be astonished! The multi award-winning master of mind control and psychological illusion, Derren Brown, returns with his brand new live show, ONLY HUMAN. The content of ONLY HUMAN is still under wraps, but we can guarantee you a ...IDEAL - Starring Johnny Vegas
Quays Theatre
Monday 8 - Saturday 13 September 2025
Critically acclaimed and a ratings hit, the multi-award winning BBC sit-com Ideal ran for 7 seasons and 53 episodes. Now Moz and friends are back. Celebrating the 20th anniversary of the first episode's broadcast, this new stage show is da...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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Most Popular Shows and Events at Lowry, Salford
