Most Popular Theatre in Manchester
Thu 26 Mar - Tue 28 Apr 2026
Wed 20 Aug - Sat 4 Oct 2025
Sun 2 Feb 2025 - Wed 18 Feb 2026
Wed 30 Apr - Sat 8 Nov 2025
Wed 9 Apr - Sat 17 May 2025
Calamity Jane
Tuesday 21 - Saturday 25 January 2025
Gosh almighty! Grab a posse because the whip crackin' musical comedy classic Calamity Jane is a rollin' on over the plains to a theatre near you. Based on the much-loved Doris Day movie, this plumb fancy new production stars the multi-award...
Ed Gamble
Tuesday 21 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...
Ricky Gervais
Tuesday 21 January 2025
Ricky Gervais has today announced the highly-anticipated first set of official UK dates for his brand-new stand-up show 'Mortality'. Fresh from his most recent stand-up special 'Armageddon' winning a Golden Globe, hitting Number 1 on Netf...
David Hockney: Bigger & Closer (not smaller & further away)
Tuesday 21 - Saturday 25 January 2025
Let David Hockney take you on a personal journey through sixty years of his art in this vibrant immersive exhibition With huge state-of-the-art projections and a revolutionary sound system, Bigger & Closer (not smaller & further away) invit...
The Best Movies in Cinemas & Streaming
Tuesday 21 January - Wednesday 31 December 2025
If you are looking for a film to watch, ManchesterTheatres. com have rounded-up the best movies currently showing at Manchester's cinemas, and we are offering discounted tickets at Odeon, Vue, Cineworld and HOME too. We've also compiled...
A Complete Unknown (15)
Tuesday 21 - Thursday 30 January 2025
★★★ Timothee Chalamet is brilliant and believable in James Mangold's conventional Dylan biopic. ~ BBC. --- Timothee Chalamet stars as Bob Dylan in the ballad of a true original. A Film by James Mangold. Co-starring Edward Norton, El...
HOME Film Pass
Tuesday 21 January - Wednesday 31 December 2025
See everything everywhere (almost all at once) with the new HOME Film Pass! Experience new releases at HOME, any time, as many times as you like for one monthly price. For just £18 you'll also get a range of perks to make the most of your ...
Maria (12A)
Tuesday 21 - Thursday 30 January 2025
★★★★ An on-song Angelina Jolie fronts this stirring biopic about opera singer Maria Callas. ~ Radio Times. --- From acclaimed director Pablo Larrain - director of Jackie and Spencer - Maria tells the tumultuous, beautiful, and ...
The Royal Opera - The Tales of Hoffmann (12A)
Tuesday 21 January 2025
The Royal Ballet and Opera returns to the big screen for its Cinema Season 2024/25 with Offenbach's dream-like opera. Through the haze of the years, a poet remembers the women he loved. But when it comes to matters of the heart, nothing i...
Waiting for Godot
Tuesday 21 - Sunday 26 January 2025
Accepted as one of the most significant plays of the 20th century, Samuel Beckett's tragic comedy about the meaning of life and the absurdity of existence is brought to the stage by Altrincham Garrick, directed by Celia Bonner. Two wanderi...
Discounted Cineworld Cinema Tickets
Tuesday 21 January - Wednesday 31 December 2025
Buy your Cineworld cinema tickets in Manchester at a reduced price: "Group 1 Tickets" from only £5.49 (saving up to £1.50 per ticket): Cineworld Bolton - [click here]--- "Group 2 Tickets" from only £8.99 (saving up to £4 per ticke...
Discounted Odeon Cinema Tickets
Tuesday 21 January - Wednesday 31 December 2025
A must for film buffs, treat yourself to any movie, on any day, at any time at Odeon Cinemas in Manchester for a fantastically cheap price: From £6.99 Monday to Thursday (saving up to £6 per ticket), or £8.99 any day of the week ...
Discounted Vue Cinema Tickets
Tuesday 21 January 2025 - Sunday 4 January 2026
A must for film buffs, treat yourself to any movie, on any day, at any time at Vue Cinemas in Manchester for a fantastically cheap price: "Yellow Tickets" from only £6.50: Vue Manchester Printworks - [click here]Vue Manchester Red Q...
Floridita Dance - Free Bachata Taster Class
Tuesday 21 January - Tuesday 25 March 2025
Ever wanted to learn Bachata but never danced before? Now's your chance! Start with Floridita Dance's FREE taster class designed just for absolute beginners. No partner required. After that, you can keep growing your skills through their co...
The Lowry Dance & Drama Workshops
Tuesday 21 January - 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...
A Real Pain (18)
Tuesday 21 - Thursday 30 January 2025
★★★★ Jesse Eisenberg writes, directs and stars in a film that manages to be ruefully perceptive and laugh-out-loud funny, often at the same time. ~ The Telegraph. --- "One of the best films of the year." Written, directed by and s...
Babygirl (18)
Tuesday 21 - Thursday 30 January 2025
★★★★ Nicole Kidman stuns as a botoxed CEO in a steamy thriller. ~ The Times. --- From writer/director Halina Reijn and starring Nicole Kidman, Harris Dickinson, Antonio Banderas, and Sophie Wilde. A high-powered CEO puts her career...
Nickel Boys (12A)
Tuesday 21 - Wednesday 29 January 2025
★★★★★ A shatteringly powerful movie about abuse, this adaptation of Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer prizewinning novel is told completely through point-of-view shots of its two protagonists. It deserves Oscar attention. ~ The Times....
Nosferatu (15)
Tuesday 21 - Thursday 30 January 2025
★★★★ Nosferatu delivers a relatively straight re-telling of this classic gothic tale. It looks and sounds stunning and is packed with vampiric horror. It doesn't push many boundaries but if you wanted the classic Dracula narrative f...
The Girl With the Needle (15)
Tuesday 21 - Thursday 30 January 2025
★★★★ Set in the shadowy aftermath of the First World War, this scorching and dark horrific drama draws on a grim true story from Denmark's past. ~ The Telegraph. --- Magnus von Horn's gothic Cannes selection, starring Vic Carmen Son...
Vermiglio
Tuesday 21 - Thursday 30 January 2025
★★★★ Maura Delpero's beautifully-made drama explores the complex dynamics of a sprawling family near the wartime border with Germany. ~ The Guardian. --- Italy's Official Selection for the 2025 Academy Awards. The lush and breathtak...
We Live In Time (15)
Tuesday 21 - Thursday 23 January 2025
★★★ This romantic melodrama from Brooklyn director John Crowley boasts a strong pair of leads, but isn't without contrivances. ~ Radio Times. ---A love story, starring Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh, about the times that change ...
Animal Farm
Wednesday 22 January - Saturday 1 February 2025
A powerful re-telling of George Orwell's chilling and timeless classic. When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master and take over, they imagine it is the beginning of a life of freedom and equality for all. However ove...
Milton Jones
Wednesday 22 January 2025
Most people know Milton Jones as the comedian with the loud shirts and messed up hair, however his stand-up is built on much more than a funny appearance. Radio Times said that the "wild-haired Jones has raised wordplay to the level of fine...
RNCM Opera Scenes
Wednesday 22 - Friday 31 January 2025
FREE EVENT. RNCM vocal and conducting students present excerpts from some of opera's greatest moments in this free series of staged scenes. A perfect way to feed your curiosity! Click on tickets link for the perfromers and excerpts presente...
Cyborg: A Documentary (12A) + Panel Discussion
Wednesday 22 January 2025
★★★ Artist and musician Neil Harbisson claims to be the world's first cyborg in this engaging, amusing and sometimes preposterous documentary. ~ The Guardian. --- Colour-blind artist Neil Harbisson is the world's first formally-recogn...
Evening with Fraser Horsfall
Wednesday 22 January 2025
Promotion winning County defender, Fraser Horsfall and a special guest are joining us at Bask in Stockport for an evening hosted by Club President, Steve Bellis. The evening is in aid of Forever Friends of Uganda and is promoted by the Sto...
Votes for Women Across the North of England
Wednesday 22 January 2025
Jill Liddington asks why was the Lancashire story for votes for women is so well-known and the equally dramatic Yorkshire story neglected for so long? Jill Liddington moved to Manchester area in 1974, and in 1978 her coauthored book, One Ha...
Chinese Calligraphy with Mr Zhe An Woon
Wednesday 22 January 2025
A masterclass on Chinese calligraphy with an expert artist from China, presented in partnership with the Manchester Chinese Centre. Calligraphy is considered the highest form of art in the Chinese culture. With the simplest form of dots and...
An Audience with Mark & Lard
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 ...
Milton Jones
Thursday 23 January 2025
Most people know Milton Jones as the comedian with the loud shirts and messed up hair, however his stand-up is built on much more than a funny appearance. Radio Times said that the "wild-haired Jones has raised wordplay to the level of fine...
Dan Nightingale
Thursday 23 January - Thursday 13 February 2025
Award-winning comedian, game-changing podcaster and professional bell-end, Dan Nightingale has spent the last two years changing the comedy industry from the inside out, paving new career paths for himself and many others; whilst being one ...
Big Mad Andy's Peep Show Quiz
Thursday 23 January 2025
Peep Show heads. This one is for you! Liam Noble, AKA Big Mad Andy has stocked up on Breakfast Room Green and is ready to bring you the ultimate quiz on one of Britain's favourite sitcoms, Peep Show! Famed for his emotionally unstable yet...
Lowry CAT - Open Dance Class
Thursday 23 January - Thursday 20 March 2025
Calling all young people aged 8-14 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...
Rocco and his Brothers (15)
Thursday 23 January 2025
★★★★★ Visconti's masterpiece, beautifully restored, is better than ever. ~ Time Out. --- Restored in 4K for a "Martin Scorsese presents" release, Rocco and his Brothers is considered one of the last, and greatest, neo-realist fi...
Music Drop
Thursday 23 January - Thursday 3 April 2025
Music Drop is Contact's open access music service designed to empower the next generation of musicians. Contact's state of the art Media Lounge is equipped with iMacs with Logic Pro and Ableton Live, synthesizers, guitars, basses, pianos, e...
Russell Kane
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 ...
Neon Brush - Paint in the Dark Experience
Friday 24 January - Saturday 15 February 2025
A painting workshop in a unique retro-futuristic atmosphere. Immerse yourself in a fluorescent neon-lit setting to create your own work of art. Brush in one hand, glass in the other (with or without alcohol), unleash your inner artist! N...
Ania Magliano
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-...
Foden's Band
Friday 24 January 2025
An exhilarating fantasia infused with dance themes marks the opening of this performance, setting the stage for tenor horn virtuoso Tim de Maeseneer to give the world premiere of Edward Gregson's Three Gods, Concerto for tenor horn, a ...
Massaoke - Sing The Musicals: The Live Band Sing-along Party
Friday 24 January 2025
Direct from London's West End, the first national tour of the greatest musicals ofall time performed by Massaoke, a sensational live band and character singers, with a giant screen displaying sing along lyrics. Expect to hear songs from Mam...
PUSH Festival
Friday 24 January - Saturday 8 February 2025
PUSH Festival returns to HOME for their biennial celebration of North West creative talent. Over two weeks, HOME's stages, screens and spaces will be dedicated to showcasing fantastic works from around the region, as well as offering oppor...
The Traitors Finale Screening
Friday 24 January 2025
A screening of 'The Traitors' Finale hosted by very special guests, comedians Sam O'Leary and Tom Lawrinson. Featuring sketches, prizes and more. Calling all fans of BBC's The Traitors. Get ready for an unforgettable night as our very speci...
Broadway Rave
Friday 24 January 2025
Calling all Musical Theatre nerds, drama geeks, actors, actresses, theatre lovers, and more! Welcome to Broadway Rave, a Broadway Dance Party celebrating the best in show-tunes and musical theatre. Come sing along to all of your favorite br...
A Little Bawl of Pain
Friday 24 - Saturday 25 January 2025
Mourn the new year in style with an Unforgettable Musical Experience! Building on the success of their production I Screamed A Scream, West End Best Friend and the Old Joint Stock are thrilled to present a heartwarming new show designed to ...
The Library of Enchantment
Friday 24 January - Saturday 29 March 2025
Ever wanted to step inside a story? The Library of Enchantment is a fun-filled thrilling family-friendly escape room, full of seafaring adventures, time travelling tricks and a pesky old bookworm who's always up to meddlesome mischief! Can ...
The Traitors Finale Watch Party with Amanda Lovett
Friday 24 January 2025
Who will win? Join Amanda Lovett from The Traitors Season 1 for the finale watch party. Join us for an unforgettable night as we watch the thrilling finale of The Traitors Season 1 with none other than Amanda Lovett herself! Taking place ...
A Celebration of Father Ted with Joe Rooney
Friday 24 - Saturday 25 January 2025
Celebrate one of the greatest sitcoms ever made, as renowned actor and stand-up comedian Joe Rooney presents a night of all things Father Ted! Joe featured as the rebellious Father Damo in the classic Father Ted episode The Old Grey Whis...
Architecton (U)
Friday 24 January 2025
★★★ An immersive and imposing meditation on concrete and stone, Victor Kossakovsky's documentary offers awesome drone-shot sequences of wrecked and ruined buildings, but could have been constructed more solidly. ~ The Guardian. --- T...
Lucky Tonight!
Friday 24 - Saturday 25 January 2025
An interactive pub quiz-cum-theatre show written and performed by Afreena Islam-Wright and directed by Julia Samuels. "In the 90's sitcom Goodness Gracious Me, one of Nina Wadia's many characters can make everything at home 'with a lit...
Presence
Friday 24 January 2025
From the director of Sex, Lies, and Videotape, Erin Brockovich, and Ocean's Eleven comes a new film. A family moves into a suburban house and becomes convinced they're not alone. Oscar-winning director Steven Soderbergh shakes the horror ge...
