WHAT'S ON AT THE LOWRY, SALFORD
What's On at The Lowry, Salford
The 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, The 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.
The Lowry has hosted Britain’s Got Talent, The Royal Variety, I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue and Mastermind. It premiered new musical 42 Balloons. Other shows lined up include Dear England, War Horse, Life Of Pi, Six, Come From Away, A Chorus Line and A Christmas Carol. See what's on at The Lowry below and book tickets online.
The 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, The 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.
The Lowry has hosted Britain’s Got Talent, The Royal Variety, I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue and Mastermind. It premiered new musical 42 Balloons. Other shows lined up include Dear England, War Horse, Life Of Pi, Six, Come From Away, A Chorus Line and A Christmas Carol. See what's on at The Lowry below and book tickets online.
Most Popular Shows and Events at The Lowry, Salford
What's On at The Lowry, Salford
Grace Campbell
Lyric Theatre
Sunday 10 - Monday 18 November 2024
Grace Campbell, "one of the funniest women in Britain"Â (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
Quays Theatre
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...Nature Elly
The Studio
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...Ant Middleton
Lyric Theatre
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
Quays Theatre
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...Wonder Boy
Quays Theatre
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...Opera North - A Midsummer Night's Dream
Lyric Theatre
Wednesday 13 November 2024
Out in the wood Oberon and Tytania, the powerful Fairy King and Queen, are locked in a dispute so fierce it's causing climate catastrophe. In nearby Athens live two young women, best friends, one loved by two men, the other by none. When th...
Opera North - Ruddigore
Lyric Theatre
Thursday 14 November 2024
Bad baronet Sir Despard Murgatroyd has inherited a centuries-old witch's curse forcing him to commit a crime a day or die in agony. So it's a huge relief when timid Robin Oakapple is revealed as his long-lost elder brother and the true inhe...Flock
The Studio
Thursday 14 - Friday 15 November 2024
A new play by multi award winning Lin Coghlan, presented by Playing ON. "Dartford. Hastings. Margate by the sea." Robbie wants nothing more than to be a grown up, and live with his sister Cel. Cel wants to go to university and find the kind...
Opera North - The Magic Flute
Lyric Theatre
Friday 15 November 2024 - Friday 14 March 2025
Enter an enchanted world and join Prince Tamino on his quest to rescue Pamina, daughter of the Queen of the Night, held captive by Sarastro, the Priest of the Sun. Tamino is accompanied by Papageno, a bird-catcher, who is also on a quest - ...Opera North - The Big Opera Adventure
Lyric Theatre
Saturday 16 November 2024
A thrilling quest for all the family. Join the Orchestra of Opera North and singers on a madcap journey to meet some of opera's most colourful characters - in just 50 minutes! In this new family-friendly show, you'll encounter heroes and vi...Sooz Kempner
The Studio
Saturday 16 November 2024
The award-winning, Twitter sensation and BBC Radio 4 regular is back with a brand new show for 2024, Class of 2000. As the year 2000 approached Sooz was about to turn 15 and the PlayStation 2 was about to launch... it was a new beginning fo...Bharatiya Vrund Gaan Indian Choir - Rang-Tarang
Quays Theatre
Sunday 17 November 2024
An evening of joyful & soothing Indian choral compositions for inner joy and wellbeing, accompanied by the finest Indian musicians and a String Orchestra. Presented by Bharatiya Vrund Gaan (BVG) - the Indian Adult Choir - and SHIVA - the In...
Robin Morgan
The Studio
Sunday 17 November 2024
As featured on BBC Two's Mock The Week and BBC Radio 4's The News Quiz, Robin Morgan is back on the road with a hilarious brand new show, The Spark - his biggest tour to date. His previous shows have dealt with a proposal, marriage, kids an...Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake
Lyric Theatre
Tuesday 19 - Saturday 30 November 2024
Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake returns for its 30th anniversary with a 2024/25 UK tour. This audacious reinvention of Tchaikovsky's masterpiece caused a sensation when it premiered almost 30 years ago and has since become the most successful da...Chosen
The Studio
Tuesday 19 - Wednesday 20 November 2024
Imagine accidentally killing Harry Potter, Luke Skywalker, or Jesus and having to take their place. Chosen is a pop-rock comedy musical by Taiyo Yoshida & Dominic Varney about Sue, an IT Support Technician in her 60s, who wakes from a coma ...Ballet Black - Heroes
The Lowry, Salford
Wednesday 20 - Thursday 21 November 2024
Now in their 22nd year, Cassa Pancho's Ballet Black return to The Lowry OR make their debut at The Lowry with a new double bill, Ballet Black: HEROES. Award-winning choreographer, Mthuthuzeli November contemplates the purpose of life in The...Travis Jay
The Studio
Thursday 21 November 2024
Following his sell-out show at London's Bloomsbury Theatre, his Run at Soho Theatre and a critically acclaimed Edinburgh Festival Fringe debut in 2019, Travis Jay brings his brand-new show 'Travesty' on his debut TOUR. 26 Dates up and down ...Matt Forde
Quays Theatre
Friday 22 November 2024 - Sunday 2 February 2025
Finally, the UK has a new government. That can only mean one thing: new people to take the piss out of. Leading political comedian and satirist Matt Forde makes this his personal mission. Host of hit political podcast 'The Political Party',...Tatty MacLeod
Quays Theatre
Saturday 23 November 2024
Hot off the back of a sold-out Edinburgh Fringe run, Tatty Macleod is bringing her certain je ne sais quoi to the stage with her debut hour of comedy: FUGUE. Building on her hugely popular English vs French online sketches she asks the impo...George Lewis
Quays Theatre
Sunday 24 November 2024 - Sunday 23 March 2025
Described as 'the funniest dad on Instagram', Stockport stand-up comedian George has racked up hundreds of millions of views for his hilarious online sketches about the big things in life, like owning an air fryer, watching a David Beckham ...Felicity Ward
Quays Theatre
Thursday 28 November 2024
Star of The Office (Australia), Felicity Ward returns for her first national tour in six years, I'm Exhausting! In a two hour laugh out loud extravaganza, Felicity Ward talks about something that no one has ever done before - she had a baby...
Yotam Ottolenghi
Lyric Theatre
Sunday 1 December 2024
Spend a delicious evening with the inimitable chef and restaurateur Yotam Ottolenghi, celebrating the release of his highly anticipated new cookbook, Comfort, Ottolenghi's most personal work since his era-defining publications, Simple and F...Count Arthur Strong is Charles Dickens in A Christmas Carol
Quays Theatre
Sunday 1 December 2024
Due to public pressure, Count Arthur Strong extends his fond farewell to you, for a 'once in a lifetime' limited run. Arthur delivers the Charles Dickens story and follows this with his own adaptation of the most classic of festive tales, A...Come From Away
Lyric Theatre
Tuesday 3 December 2024 - Sunday 5 January 2025
Come From Away -Â a moving tale that captures the spirit of true events that transpired in the wake of 9/11! This musical has taken the West End by storm, winning four Olivier Awards including one for Best New Musical. Aside from a fleet o...A Christmas Carol - The Musical
Quays Theatre
Friday 6 December 2024 - Sunday 5 January 2025
The classic Dickens story comes to life with true broadway spectacle in this Musical version brought to you by Alan Menken (Disney's Beauty And The Beast The Little Mermaid and Newsies and Little Shop Of Horrors) and Lynn Ahrens (Ragtime, S...Stick Man
Quays Theatre
Tuesday 10 December 2024 - Sunday 5 January 2025
Touching, funny and utterly original, Freckle Productions' delightful adaptation of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler's Stick Man is back in town! What starts off as a morning jog becomes quite the misadventure for Stick Man: a dog wants t...
Little Penguin's First Christmas
The Studio
Saturday 28 - Tuesday 31 December 2024
From the company that brought you the sell-out productions of Snowbabies! and Aleena's Garden, Little Penguin's First Christmas is an immersive, festive experience for babies aged 0-36 months and their grown-ups! Filled with puppetry, origi...An Inspector Calls
Lyric Theatre
Tuesday 7 - Saturday 18 January 2025
J B Priestley's Classic Thriller AN INSPECTOR CALLS 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 ...Sealskin
The Lowry, Salford
Wednesday 15 - Thursday 16 January 2025
Exploring ideas of belonging, otherness and home, Sealskin combines Liverpool physical theatre company Tmesis's trademark playful and highly skilled physicality, puppetry, storytelling, incredible projection design and live original music ...The Classic Rock Show
Lyric Theatre
Sunday 19 January 2025 - Monday 19 January 2026
The ultimate live juke box is back, bigger and even better, celebrating the very best-of-the-best of Classic Rock. Paying tribute to its favourite rock heroes CRS thunders through legendary performances from the likes of Queen, Led Zeppelin...Ed Gamble
Quays Theatre
Sunday 19 - Monday 20 January 2025
 Hi, Ed here. I have chosen the prestigious Salford Lowry Quays Theatre to film my new special. It will be all my favourite humour from the last 2 tours, and I will probably have some makeup on. I'd love it if you came along or else we wi...An Audience with Mark & Lard
Lyric Theatre
Thursday 23 January 2025
The 24th March 2004 saw the world heritage radio site of the 'Mark and Lard Show' come to an end with a resounding: 'STOP...!' Now fully twenty-one years later we can finally complete that catchphrase with an equally resounding: '... CARRY ...Russell Kane
Lyric Theatre
Friday 24 - Saturday 25 January 2025
Whirlwind, FitBit-breaking comedian, presenter, actor and author Russell Kane is out on the road again, setting it on fire with his unique recipe of sharp wit and "storming physical comedy" (Mail on Sunday). Hyperactive, his brand-new tour ...Ania Magliano
Quays Theatre
Friday 24 January 2025
You know when you're trying to wee on a night out, and you're interrupted by a random girl who insists on telling you all her secrets even though you've never met? Imagine that, but she has a microphone. After two critically acclaimed sell-...Jenny Eclair
Quays Theatre
Saturday 25 January 2025
In celebration of the release of her hilarious memoir of the same name, comedian, novelist, and professional show-off Jenny Eclair comes to venues nationwide with a brand-new autobiographical show, Jokes Jokes Jokes Live! From drama school,...Russell Hicks
The Studio
Saturday 25 January 2025
Russell Hicks heads out on his first tour, Happy To Be Here, but not his first rodeo. (Warning: This is a stand up show. NOT a rodeo.) Russell Hicks is here to stay and he really is happy to be here. So, why don't British People believe him...Giovanni Pernice - The Last Dance
Lyric Theatre
Sunday 26 January 2025
Strictly Come Dancing professional Giovanni Pernice returns in 2025 with his tour 'The Last Dance'. The 2021 Strictly champion and BAFTA winner will be taking to the stage once again with his company of world class performers. Giovanni, the...Andy Zaltzman
Quays Theatre
Sunday 26 January 2025
 Chair of The News Quiz (Radio 4), host of the global hit satirical podcast The Bugle, and Test Match Special statistician, the stand-up comedian, broadcaster and writer, who has firmly established himself in the vanguard of British comed...
Acosta Danza - Nutcracker in Havana
The Lowry, Salford
Monday 27 - Tuesday 28 January 2025
A Cuban take on the favourite festive classic, Carlos Acosta's brand-new production Nutcracker in Havana explodes onto the stage, featuring new choreography by Carlos Acosta CBE performed by more than 20 dancers from his Cuban company, Acos...London Symphonic Rock Orchestra
Lyric Theatre
Thursday 30 January 2025
Boundary breaking pioneers fusing the omnipotent power of the orchestra with innovative technology the raucous rebellion of rock, London Symphonic Rock Orchestra deliver iconic rock hits in the most spectacular way.​​A collective of 12 ...
10 Nights
The Studio
Thursday 30 January - Saturday 1 February 2025
The Olivier Award nominated moving and funny play, by Shahid Iqbal Khan, is the story of one man's journey of self-discovery, and facing the consequences of your actions. One man's spiritual journey is about to begin... after he's posted o...The Shark is Broken
Lyric Theatre
Tuesday 4 - Saturday 8 February 2025
Step aboard the Orca and into a "profound dive behind the scenes of the making of Jaws" (The Daily Telegraph). This Olivier Award-nominated new play is "hilariously brilliant and pure genius" raves the Sunday Express in its 5 Star review an...Floella Benjamin's Coming To England
Quays Theatre
Wednesday 5 - Monday 10 February 2025
An inspirational story of hope, determination and triumph Floella Benjamin's award-winning and iconic book Coming to England comes to life in this joyful stage adaptation with music, storytelling and song. Much loved by children and familie...Bill Bryson's Notes From a Small Island
Lyric Theatre
Tuesday 11 - Saturday 15 February 2025
Bill Bryson's smash-hit memoir journeys to the stage in an acclaimed adaptation, starring national treasure Les Dennis. From Calais to the Highlands, Bill travels the length and breadth of Britain rediscovering the green and pleasant land h...The Girl on the Train
Lyric Theatre
Tuesday 11 - Saturday 15 February 2025
Adapted from Paula Hawkins' novel - an international phenomenon selling over twenty million copies worldwide - this gripping new play will keep you guessing until the final moment. Rachel Watson longs for a different life. Her only escape i...Jacob Hawley
