Most Popular Theatre in Manchester
Thu 26 Mar - Tue 28 Apr 2026
Wed 20 Aug - Sat 4 Oct 2025
Wed 30 Apr 2025 - Fri 13 Feb 2026
Wed 9 Apr - Sat 17 May 2025
Mon 24 Feb - Sat 8 Mar 2025
This Kind of Black (Requiem for Black Boys)
Saturday 22 February 2025
This Kind of Black (Requiem for Black Boys) is the powerful stage show from poet and musician Reece Williams. It's about growing up in Manchester's Moss Side in the 1990s, a stone's throw from conflict and violence. It celebrates a communit...
Bing's Birthday
Saturday 22 - Sunday 23 February 2025
Join Bing and his friends Sula, Pando, Coco, Amma and of course Flop as they get ready to celebrate his special day in the brand-new live stage show, Bing's Birthday!It's Bing's birthday and everyone is very excited! Things won't always go ...
Dear Evan Hansen
Saturday 22 February 2025
"The most vital and important musical of a generation" (Daily Mail) with "a raw, relevant and exhilarating score" (BBC Radio London) from the songwriters of The Greatest Showman and La La Land. A letter that was never meant to be seen, a li...
Ellen Kent's Madama Butterfly
Saturday 22 February 2025
Senbla presents Opera International's award-winning Ellen Kent and the Ukrainian Opera & Ballet Theatre Kyiv production, with international soloists, highly-praised chorus and full orchestra. Back by overwhelming public demand, this award-w...
Escaped Alone and What If If Only
Saturday 22 February - Saturday 8 March 2025
Director Sarah Frankcom returns to the Exchange with two short plays by Caryl Churchill, brought together in one evening of theatre. Escaped Alone "I'm walking down the street and there's a door in the fence open and inside there are three...
Shirley Valentine
Saturday 22 February - Saturday 8 March 2025
Be transported to sunny Greece with this beloved northern comedy! Mina Anwar reprises the title role in Willy Russell's heart-warming comedy following her acclaimed performance in our 2020 production. This will once again see Mina resetting...
Figures in Extinction
Saturday 22 February 2025
Experience a moving and timely new work from choreographer Crystal Pite and director Simon McBurney - the culmination of their award-winning dance trilogy exploring the age of disconnection. Humanity's impact on the natural world is greater...
Rita, Sue & Bob Too!
Saturday 22 February 2025
St Helens' Regal Entertainments Ltd proudly presents the return of the record breaking Adults Only hilarious 1987 cult classic Rita, Sue & Bob Too!TV favourite Jake Quickenden heads the stellar cast as Bob in the production. Jake will be ...
The Engagement Party
Saturday 22 February 2025
We're hosting The Engagement Party of lifetime - and you're all invited!Meet Zack, a nature-loving foodie, and Sofia, a passionate city-loving girl. Their unexpected love story began in a chicken shop in Oldham, but as their relationship fl...
Beauty and the Beast - St Helens Half Term Panto
Saturday 22 - Sunday 23 February 2025
A magical retelling of a timeless classic at the St Helens Theatre Royal by Regal Entertainment. Experience the story of Belle and her journey of love with a prince cursed to appear as a beast. Will the power of love break the spell? Don...
Blithe Spirit
Saturday 22 February 2025
'If I died, I wonder how long it would be before you married again?' Hope Mill favourites HER Productions (Vignettes, Taming of the Shrew) are back this February with a fierce, funny and feminist twist on the Noel Coward classic, Blithe Spi...
Felicity Ward
Saturday 22 February 2025
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...
Zoe Lyons
Saturday 22 February 2025
If life is a journey, Zoe's has had more than its share of potholes and diversions: from diving with sharks, to sitting in a shed in Vietnam with a former health secretary (and discovering that MPs aren't the only parasites she has to wo...
The Best Movies in Cinemas & Streaming
Saturday 22 February - 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...
Jack and The Beanstalk
Saturday 22 February 2025
Fee Fi Fo Fum! This classic fairytale now gets the Lyngo Theatre treatment so expect lots of surprises and beautiful images as Patrick Lynch (from Cbeebies) tells the gripping story of Jack who sells his cow for 5 magic beans and finds hims...
Shovel Dance Collective
Saturday 22 February 2025
Nurturing a passion for the folk musics of the British Isles and Ireland with experimental tendencies, London's Shovel Dance Collective explore the ways in which traditional music holds queer histories, proto-feminist narratives and the voi...
A Complete Unknown (15)
Saturday 22 - Thursday 27 February 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
Saturday 22 February - 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 ...
Schmeichel (15) + Q&A with Peter Schmeichel
Saturday 22 - Thursday 27 February 2025
The 18:00 screening on Fri 21 Feb at HOME will be followed by a Q&A with Peter Schmeichel, hosted by sports broadcaster and film producer Simon Lazenby. --- Peter Schmeichel is a giant of football, perhaps the greatest goalkeeper of all tim...
National Theatre Live - The Importance of Being Earnest (PG)
Saturday 22 February 2025
Showing as though live, on the big screen, three-time Olivier Award-winner Sharon D Clarke is joined by Ncuti Gatwa (Doctor Who; Sex Education) in this joyful reimagining of Oscar Wilde's most celebrated comedy. While assuming the role of a...
ComedySportz
Saturday 22 February - Saturday 13 September 2025
You've seen football. You've seen tennis. But have you seen Comedy as a sport? Then you don't want to miss this all ages, all action, all improvised competitive comedy show! Two teams battle it out for laughs with quick-witted gags, games, ...
The Library of Enchantment
Saturday 22 February - 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 ...
moviEscape - SAWtopsy
Saturday 22 February - Wednesday 30 April 2025
Inspired by the hit SAW movie franchise, SAWtopsy at moviESCAPE, Stockport's leading Escape Room offering, is a gory and ominous room with dim, atmospheric lighting, however it does not feature any jump scares - well none that are deliberat...
Shakespeare North Playhouse - A Guided Tour
Saturday 22 February - Thursday 24 April 2025
Want to know more about why Shakespeare North Playhouse was built? Why in Prescot? Why it won 'Theatre Building of the Year 2023' at The Stage Awards? Look no further! On this Guided Tour through Shakespeare North Playhouse, you will be led...
Before Sunrise (15)
Saturday 22 - Thursday 27 February 2025
★★★★★ Not a romcom, not a romantic drama, but just ... a romance, a brief encounter on a train without heartache, a strange and wonderful moment-by-moment miracle that never seems cloying or absurd. Richard Linklater's film from 1...
BFI Future Film Festival - Northern Perspectives
Saturday 22 February 2025
BFI Future Film Festival is the UK's largest festival for emerging filmmakers aged 16 to 25. The festival connects young people interested in working in the screen industries with leading experts and practitioners, and provides opportunitie...
Hard Truths (12A)
Saturday 22 - Thursday 27 February 2025
★★★★ British Oscar-nominated director Mike Leigh is back on form in this gruelling tale. ~ The Times. --- From acclaimed filmmaker Mike Leigh, comes Hard Truths. Starring Marianne Jean-Baptiste and Michele Austin. The Oscar-nom...
I'm Still Here (15)
Saturday 22 - Thursday 27 February 2025
★★★★ From The Motorcycle Diaries to On the Road, Walter Salles is a great celebrator of liberation, both personal and political. The two come together in stirring and poignant ways here. You can feel the shadow of a contemporary Br...
Memoir of a Snail (15)
Saturday 22 - Thursday 27 February 2025
★★★★ This Oscar-nominated animation with Sarah Snook is a darkly funny, oddball delight. Adam Elliot's stop-motion tale of twins separated as children in Australia is an enchantingly weird life lesson for us all. ~ Evening Standar...
Picnic at Hanging Rock (12A)
Saturday 22 - Thursday 27 February 2025
★★★★★ A fascinating film that is by turns fascinating and mysterious. ~ Empire. --- Returning to the big screen to celebrate its 50th anniversary in a dazzling 4K restoration, Peter Weir's 1975 adaptation of Joan Lindsay's novel ...
The Brutalist (18)
Saturday 22 - Thursday 27 February 2025
★★★★★ Adrien Brody and Felicity Jones star in a majestic historical epic from the director Brady Corbet. This may be the film to beat at the Oscars. ~ The Times. --- Brady Corbet's staggering epic, starring Adrien Brody, Felicity...
The Seed of The Sacred Fig (15)
Saturday 22 - Thursday 27 February 2025
★★★★★ This Oscar-nominated thriller is a blistering attack on the Iranian regime. If Mohammad Rasoulof was to make just one film worth having to flee Iran for, this gripping family thriller would be it. ~ Evening Standard. --- Him...
Dog Man (U)
Saturday 22 - Sunday 23 February 2025
★★★✭ DreamWorks' second feature-length Dav Pilkey adaptation is a lot of bark and solid bite; zippy, beautifully constructed family fun. ~ Little White Lies. --- Part dog, part man, all hero. From DreamWorks Animation-creators of th...
Schmeichel
Saturday 22 - Thursday 27 February 2025
Owen Davies? documentary features unprecedented access to the international sporting hero, Peter Schmeichel....
The Monkey
Saturday 22 - Thursday 27 February 2025
When twin brothers Hal and Bill discover their father?s old monkey toy in the attic, a series of gruesome deaths starts occurring all around them. ...
Comedy Night Live with Headliner Kevin Finn
Saturday 22 February 2025
SATURDAY 22ND FEBRUARY 2025. Comedy Night Live is back at St Oswalds Social Club in Padgate, Warrington with a quality line up of 3 fantastic professional comedians alongside your brilliant host and compere Bobby Murdock. Headline Act Kevin...
Strength Body And Mind
Saturday 22 February - Saturday 25 October 2025
The Strength Body and Mind Class is ideal for anyone looking to build physical strength while also calming the mind....
Ellen Kent's La Traviata
Sunday 23 February 2025
Senbla presents Opera internation's award-winning Ellen Kent Production featuring the Ukranian National Opera of Kharkiv in collaboration with the Ukranian Opera & Ballet Theatre Kyiv, with international soloists, highly-praised choru...
Dinosaur Adventure Live
Sunday 23 February 2025
65 million years in the making... Are you ready for the adventure? This awe-inspiring interactive stage show captivates both young and young at heart, immersing audiences in the enthralling & realistic world of Dinosaurs. When a satell...
Sophie Duker
Sunday 23 February 2025
The sexiest comic alive (please do not factcheck!) is back! The Taskmaster champ is back on tour and dealing with her (sugar) daddy issues in a hilarious new stand-up show. But Daddy I Love Her sees Sophie take the stage with her tradema...
The Stockport Music Story in Conversation with AJ Barratt
Sunday 23 February 2025
Rock photographer Tony Barratt couldn't be more Stopfordian. He was born next to the Town Hall in the legendary Town Hall Tavern where his parents were the licensees. He grew up obsessed with music, reading the NME on the bus to school. Aft...
Normski's Dance Energy Party
Sunday 23 February 2025
London broadcaster, hip hop fashion photographer, and DJ Normski is bringing Dance Energy back with live performance, hosted by Normski along with special guests. Dance Energy was a fast-moving TV entertainment show from the early 1990'...
99% Cloudy... Always (12A)
Sunday 23 - Tuesday 25 February 2025
KUSUNOKI Kazuha (SANGOUMI Midori) is a chatty, energetic 45-year-old woman who lives with her husband Daichi (NIKAIDO Satoshi). Their life together is happy, but when Kazuha's family gather to commemorate the one-year anniversary of her mot...
A Real Pain (18)
Sunday 23 - Tuesday 25 February 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...
Bat Out Of Hell
Monday 24 February - Saturday 8 March 2025
Bat Out of Hell makes a triumphant return, with a thrilling spectacle of a show where the timeless music of Jim Steinman and Meat Loaf reigns supreme! Get ready for an electrifying experience that will ignite your passion for rock 'n' roll....
The News Agents
Monday 24 February 2025
The chart-topping daily news podcast The News Agents, is going on tour for the first time with The News Agents Live On Stage with HSBC UK. Hosted by three of the UK's most respected journalists Emily Maitlis, Jon Sopel and Lewis Go...
Wes Peden - Rollercoaster
Monday 24 February 2025
Ultra-modern pop-punk juggling! Surrounded by a huge inflatable blue structure and accompanied by electro beats composed of distorted rollercoaster sounds, Wes Peden shares his cutting-edge tricks inspired by corkscrews, adrenalin, and high...
Floridita Dance - Free Salsa Taster Class
Monday 24 February - Monday 31 March 2025
Ever wanted to learn Salsa but never danced before? Now's your chance! Start with Floridita Dance's FREE taster class designed just for absolute beginners. No partner is required. After that, you can keep growing your skills through their c...
Oppenheimer (15)
Monday 24 February - Saturday 1 March 2025
★★★★✭ "This combustible and relentlessly-paced biography of the 'father of the the atomic bomb' is a contender for Christopher Nolan's best film." ~ Little White Lies. Written and directed by Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer is a...
Ghost Stories
Tuesday 25 February - Saturday 1 March 2025
The long-running West End hit returns! When Professor Goodman, arch-sceptic out to debunk the paranormal, embarks on an investigation of three apparent hauntings - as recounted by a night-watchman, a teenage boy, and a businessman awaiting ...
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