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Hairspray
Palace Theatre | Until 13 November 2021

The international musical phenomenon Hairspray returns to The Palace this autumn. After breaking box office records and delighting audiences around the world, it’s your chance to see this smash-hit musical-comedy here in Manchester.

BAC Beatbox Academy: Frankenstein
Contact | Until 14 May 2022

Talented young performers interpret Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein from their own perspective as young people growing up in 21st-century Britain.

The Queer House: Pink Lemonade
Contact Theatre | Until 27 November 2021

After a sell-out run at Edinburgh Fringe 2019 and a revival at the Bush Theatre early in September, Mika Onyx Johnson’s The Queer House: Pink Lemonade comes to Contact.

A Night of Positive Laughter: HOME Comedy Club in association with Laff Til Ya Fart
HOME | 13 November 2021

HOME Comedy Club is back and proudly presenting the return of Manchester’s original premier Black comedy night.

Mandla Rae: As British as a Watermelon
Contact Theatre | Until 27 October 2021

As British as a Watermelon asks questions about belonging, trauma and forgiveness told by queer Zimbabwean writer, performer and curator, Mandla Rae

Emergency 23
Contact | 30 September 2023

Manchester’s 23rd micro-marathon of the bizarre, the bold, and the beautiful takes over Contact this September!

The Woman In Black
Palace Theatre | Until 28 August 2021

The Palace Theatre is back, finally, with The Woman In Black. What better show? Over 30 years playing in the West End to more than 7 million people.

Duckie
HOME | Until 23 December 2021

This Christmas, HOME presents a reimagining of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Ugly Duckling with a message of tolerance and self-acceptance.

Bourgeois & Maurice: That’s Snowbiz!
HOME | Until 18 December 2021

See Bourgeois & Maurice in a Christmas show like no other on the 17th & 18th of December at HOME.

The Lemon Table
HOME | Until 20 November 2021

Ian McDiarmid takes centre stage in The Lemon Table at HOME this autumn in what looks like one of this season’s hottest tickets.

The War of the Worlds
HOME | Until 2 October 2021

HOME get their Autumn Season off to a flyer with a stage adaptation of the H.G. Wells’ novel and Orson Welles’ classic radio play, The War of The Worlds

The Formidable Lizzie Boone
International Anthony Burgess Foundation (IABF) | Until 25 September 2021

What do you get when you combine a wedding ring, burlesque and Pacman? Well, if you’re Lizzie Boone, you might get therapy…

NIAMOS Bruntwood Stage Takeover
HOME | Until 4 July 2021

The Hulme-based radical arts and culture specialists takeover the Bruntwood stage at Homeground.

Contact Bruntwood Stage Takeover
HOME | Until 25 July 2021

Contact is one of the latest arts organisations to take centre stage at Homeground. We expect good things!

Saturnalia
ProjektsMCR | Until 10 July 2021

Contact presents a new show at ProjektsMCR that will transport audiences into an underground world of bass, politics and belonging – rising from the ashes of our brand-new world.