What’s on > Theatre

HOME is now reopen and although our indoor theatres aren’t up and running yet we have some new exciting theatre shows taking place in our outdoor theatre at Homeground from Fri 28 May.

Check out our full opening programme here.

Don’t forget to check out our selection of online events that you can enjoy anytime, including our Homemakers commissions.

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HOME Presents

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Push Festival 2021

Throughout 2021

Push Festival is our annual celebration of the North West’s creative talents.

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A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Tomorrow 19.30; Wed 19.30; Thu 19.30; Fri 19.30; Sat 19.30 + more times

Young lovers and warring fairies cross paths in this irreverent adaptation of one of Shakespeare’s best-loved plays

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Witches Can’t Be Burned

Watch Online Thu 10 Jun 19:00

Join Bury Grammar School for this production of Witches Can't Be Burnt as part of NT Connections Digital...

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HOME launches campaign to highlight cost of empty seats to arts venues

The tongue-in-cheek campaign depicts a cinema seat “attempting” a number of alternative job roles – including barman, lighting...

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The It

Watch Online Sat 12 June 14:00

Join Spotlight Drama Youth Theatre for this online production of The It as part of NT Connections Digital...

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The It

This online event has been cancelled

Join Lost Theatre for this online production of The It as part of NT Connections Digital Festival.

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A series of public apologies (in response to an unfortunate incident in the school lavatories)

Watch Online Sat 12 June 19:00

Join Imaginarium Theatre for this online production of A series of public apologies (in response to an unfortunate...

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Like There’s No Tomorrow

Watch Online Fri 11 June 20:00

Join Kingsway Park High School for this online production of Like There's No Tomorrow as part of NT...

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Wind/Rush Generation(s)

Watch Online Sat 12 June 20:00

Join Oldham College for this online production of Wind/Rush Generation(s) as part of NT Connections Digital Festival

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Rockin Rhinos

Sat 12.00

6 animals, 1 mission: to rescue the under 7’s from bland music and offer families with young children...

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Queeriosity

Sun 19.30

A one-off theatre spectacular celebrating the extraordinary 'Queers of our city'. A diverse & eclectic line-up including Cheddar...

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The Lost Colour

Sat 26 Jun 12.00

Join Malcolm Brushell, professional painter and amateur alchemist, on his quest to find the pinky-est pink paint on...

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Sunday Barrel of Laughs

Sun 27 Jun 18.30; Sun 11 Jul 18.00; Sun 1 Aug 18.30

Manchester's Oldest Legendary Comedy Club, The Frog and Bucket brings its flagship Barrel of Laughs show to Homeground...

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Sunday Barrel of Laughs – MC Stephen Bailey, Lloyd Griffiths and Rachel Fairburn

Sun 27 Jun 2021

The Frog and Bucket brings its flagship Barrel of Laughs show to Homeground on Sun 27 Jun, with...

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Take Back Our Future: Ten Takes On How To Be An Ally

Mon 28 Jun 19.30

Entertaining and enriching takes on how to stand together against injustice, and how we can make space for...

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HOME x Manchester Camerata presents:
Renew

How I Hacked My Way Into Space

Sat 3 Jul 12.00, 15.00

A hilarious and moving storytelling show about one man’s mission to hack his way into space.

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Cyclical

Sat 3 Jul 2021

On 3 July join artist Michael Pinchbeck via zoom for a 15 min one to one chat. You...

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Quarantine open rehearsals: 12 Last Songs

Wed 7 Jul 2021 – Sun 11 Jul 2021

For one week this July, HOME’s Associate Company Quarantine are inviting you into the rehearsal room. Come and...

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Showstopper! The Improvised Musical

Thu 8 Jul 19.30

The Olivier-Award winning Showstopper! The Improvised Musical sees a brand-new musical comedy created from scratch from audience suggestions, with unpredictable and...

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An Evening with Ria Jones

Fri 9 Jul 19.30

Join West End star Ria Jones at Homeground for an evening of song and laughter from her career...

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Shlomo’s Beatbox Adventure For Kids

Sat 10 Jul 12.00

Join world record-breaking beatboxer SK Shlomo in a world of funny sounds, brilliant noises and cool music whether...

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Sunday Barrel of Laughs – Barbara Nice joined by Lucy Beaumont

Sun 11 Jul 2021

Manchester’s oldest and most legendary Comedy Club, The Frog and Bucket brings its flagship Barrel of Laughs show...

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Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland

Fri 16 Jul 2021 – Sat 7 Aug 2021

Follow Alice down the rabbit hole in this joyful outdoor show for all the family.

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House Of Suarez + Contact: Vogue Ball

Sun 25 Jul 2021

Vogue Ball Returns to Manchester at Homeground. Vogue Houses bring their fiercest performers to compete for dance supremacy...

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Sunday Barrel of Laughs – MC Brennan Reece hosts Kiri Pritchard McLean, Tez Ilyas and Bethany Black

Sun 1 Aug 2021

Manchester's finest comedy night at Homeground this summer

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Hot Brown Honey & Quiet RIOT presents:
Don’t Touch My Hair

Available Online

A defiant musical blast that’s equal parts social activism and earworm

Theatre

David Ellington presents:
Liberty

Available Online

David Ellington brings to life his poignant and political BSL poem, Liberty, in a new short film

Theatre

Matty Gurney presents:
Dr Voxoff’s Sign Language School for Hearing Children

Available Online

A dark, acerbic and witty dystopian vision of a world in which the roles are reversed – where...

Theatre

Hester Chillingworth presents:
Them’s the Rules

Available Online

Video calls can feel so void of life. But in this landscape of distance and isolation, they also...

Theatre

Isaiah Hull presents:
Carbon Fingertip

Available Online

Poetic, personal, connection

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Music Theatre Wales and London Sinfonietta presents:
AMAZON

Available Online

Reflective, poetic, soundscape

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Hafsah Aneela Bashir presents:
Poetry Health Service

Available online and via SMS Text Message

Interactive, poetry, healing

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Ad Infinitum presents:
A Small Gathering

Available Online

Three characters find different ways of managing as the days tick over and thoughts turn into visions of...

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Hot Coals presents:
My Darling Christopher

Available Online

Theatrical, history, heart-warming

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Bryony Kimmings presents:
I am falling in love with you and it’s making me do stupid things

Available Online

Performance Artist Bryony Kimmings is single in lockdown and it’s smarting somewhat.

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Leaphia Darko/The London Rep presents:
The Very Error Of The Moon

Available Online

Solitude, Shakespeare, inequality

Theatre

Chad Taylor presents:
Lost Online

Available Online

Choreographer Chad Taylor allows dance to move between people who are physically apart, so they can dance together

Theatre

Tin Can presents:
A Manual of Fantastical Zoology

Available Online

Imaginative, intimate, live

Theatre

Anna Brownsted presents:
Week Nine

Available Online

Week Nine is lockdown escapism for you and your headphones…a story within a story within a surreal reality.

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Ella Otomewo presents:
I Don’t Love You Anymore, But I Don’t Love You Any Less

Available Online

Reflection, poetic, connection

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METIS presents:
Love Letters to a Liveable Future

Available via the Post

What do you dream of, out there on the other side of crisis?

Theatre

Joan Turner presents:
All at Once

Available Online

Thought-provoking, empowering, identity

Theatre

Hannah Jane Walker presents:
You Know It Knows

Available Online

A podcast asking how do we live under threat, and stay well?

Theatre

Naomi Sampson presents:
They keep telling me that my house is on fire

Available Online

Political, reflection, thought-provoking

Theatre

Ugly Bucket presents:
ABC (Anything But Covid)

Available Online

A mix of self-help video and disturbing twisted fable

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Toreh O’Garro presents:
Memories of a Moss Sidian

Available Online

Imaginative, escape, poetic

Theatre

Wait I’m From Wuhan

Available Online

Wait I’m From Wuhan is the story of a Chinese adoptee struggling to decide whether or not to...

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Saf Elsenoss presents:
Chasing On A Dream

Available Online

Escape, reflection, poem

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Karen Cogan presents:
Turkey Sausage Roll

Available Online

Frank, punchy, moving

Theatre

Superhero Alter Ego

Online from 1 March until 31 August

Take a surreal, escapist journey into the world of comic books

Theatre

Mark Thomas: 50 Things About Us

Wed 13 Oct 2021

Mark Thomas' 50 Things About Us is a show about songs, gongs, loot, tradition, wigs, nicking, statues, art...

Theatre

Fane presents:
An Evening with Armistead Maupin

Fri 15 Oct 2021

Don’t miss the chance to join America’s ultimate storyteller, as he recounts his favourite tales from the past...

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Adam Buxton Rambles

Wed 10 Nov 2021 – Thu 11 Nov 2021

Join comedian and podcast host Adam Buxton as he talks about and reads from his upcoming new book.

Theatre

Young Identity: HOME Unlocked

Watch Online

In this special film to mark the end of the year, join Young Identity as they discuss the...

Theatre

Endurance

Date TBA

What happens when a woman pushes herself to the limit?

Theatre

Would you care to…

Date TBA

A thought-provoking look at disability through the lens of a sisterly relationship

Theatre

Candy Floss

Date TBA

This funny, heart-warming and serious one-man show looks at how you find your space in a new place

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