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Live theatre is coming back to our building this Autumn! With over 30 shows including The War of the Worlds, The Lemon Table with Ian McDiarmid, HOME favourites Bourgeois and Maurice and Hofesh Shechter are back and there’s also shows from emerging North West talent in the Push Festival and Orbit Festival.

Several shows will have a mix of socially distanced and full capacity performances, to provide as many options as possible for audiences post-Covid.

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

Highlights: Theatre

Jaz Woodcock Stewart & Morgan Runacre-Temple presents:
Civilisation

Wed 3 Nov 2021 – Sat 6 Nov 2021

Jaz Woodcock-Stewart from award-winning company Antler collaborates with critically acclaimed choreographer Morgann Runacre-Temple. A hairdryer, an oven, a...

Our Autumn Winter 2021 Theatre Season

Wed 1 Sep 2021 – Fri 31 Dec 2021

Live theatre returns to HOME with a new season featuring over 30 shows by some of our favourite...

Next 7 Days: Theatre

HOME Presents

Push Festival 2021

Throughout 2021

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

archipelago presents:
A Call to Care

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A Call to Care is a film by archipelago, co-created with writer Zia Ahmed, and participants from the...

HOME Presents

Rhum and Clay Theatre Company presents:
The War of the Worlds

Today 19.30; Tomorrow 14.00, 19.30; Thu 19.30; Fri 19.30; Sat 14.00, 19.30

Inspired by H.G. Wells’ novel and Orson Welles’ classic radio play, this legendary science fiction thriller is playfully...

HOME Presents

Emmanuel Bajiiji presents:
Candy Floss

Thu 19.45; Fri 19.45; Sat 19.45

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

Membership & Support

As a registered charity, we rely on the generosity of our members, supporters, trusts and foundations to help...

Black History Month 2021 at HOME

Fri 1 Oct 2021 – Sun 31 Oct 2021

We're excited to be celebrating Black History Month 2021 with the return of our specially curated programme

Playreading: September – December 2021

Fri 11.00; Fri 5 Nov 11.00; Fri 3 Dec 11.00

The group meets on the first Friday of most months at HOME. The sessions, which are open to...

Book Now: Theatre

HOME Presents

HOME presents:
Endurance

Thu 7 Oct 2021 – Sat 9 Oct 2021

What happens when a woman pushes herself to the limit?

HOME presents:
Cassils: Human Measure Live

Thu 7 Oct 2021

Against the backdrop of the trebling in anti-trans hate crimes since 2014, we present the world premiere of...

From Manchester with Love: Paul Morley in Conversation

Sat 9 Oct 15.00

Join us for an investigation into and celebration of Tony Wilson and the city he loved with writer,...

BLACK HISTORY MONTH

Complicité presents:
Can I Live?

Watch Online Mon 11 - Sun 17 Oct

An energising and uplifting filmed performance that uses original hip-hop and spoken word to explore the world of...

An Evening with Bernardine Evaristo hosted by Jackie Kay

Mon 11 Oct 2021

Manchester Literature Festival is thrilled to welcome Anglo-Nigerian writer Bernardine Evaristo for a special event to celebrate her...

Phosphoros Theatre presents:
All the beds I have slept in

Tue 12 Oct 2021

All the beds I have slept in is about kindness and care. It explores the hidden moments of hospitality that...

Bob Stanley & Tessa Norton: Excavate! The Wonderful and Frightening World of The Fall

Wed 13 Oct 18.30

In their innovative book Excavate! The Wonderful and Frightening World of The Fall, musician and author, Bob Stanley,...

PM Live Ltd presents:
Mark Thomas: 50 Things About Us

Wed 13 Oct 2021 – Thu 14 Oct 2021

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

Avital Raz presents:
My Jerusalem + Post Show Discussion

Wed 13 Oct 2021

A solo performance derived from a song. A politically charged tale of a drunken one night stand, infused...

Victor Esses and CASA (in partnership with Counterpoint Arts) presents:
Where To Belong

Thu 14 Oct 2021

In January 2017, Victor visited his parents’ homeland of Lebanon for the first time - the country his mother...

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...

Tenement Kid: Bobby Gillespie in Conversation

Sat 16 Oct 20.00

Bobby Gillespie's brilliant memoir Tenement Kid charts his childhood, his work as a printers’ apprentice, his rock ‘n’...

Manchester Folk Festival 2021

Thu 21 Oct 2021 – Sat 23 Oct 2021

Manchester Folk Festival is an annual urban folk festival, a gathering of all kinds of folk.

The Fire Garden

Fri 22 Oct 2021 – Sat 23 Oct 2021

Primal and mesmerising, this collection of handcrafted fire sculptures turns an empty lot close to HOME into an...

Brouhaha 2021 with Kani Kamil and Sherko Abbas

Wed 27 Oct 2021

Brouhaha is understood as noise and voice of a state of social agitation. This performance is a new...

HOME Presents

Hofesh Shechter Company presents:
Political Mother Unplugged

Wed 27 Oct 2021 – Sat 30 Oct 2021

Hofesh Shechter is celebrating the 10th anniversary of his iconic masterpiece Political Mother with a powerful new version...

Emmanuela Yogolelo presents:
Tales from the Congo Basin

Fri 29 Oct 2021

A fun, traditional African storytelling and music session, for families with children aged 1+.

Jaz Woodcock Stewart & Morgan Runacre-Temple presents:
Civilisation

Wed 3 Nov 2021 – Sat 6 Nov 2021

Jaz Woodcock-Stewart from award-winning company Antler collaborates with critically acclaimed choreographer Morgann Runacre-Temple. A hairdryer, an oven, a...

Dibby Theatre presents:
First Dibs: The Assembly

Sat 6 Nov 2021

Join the First Dibbers as they proudly present work-in-progress sections of five exciting new LGBTQ+ led pieces, at Dibby’s end-of-term assembly.

Ai Weiwei in Conversation

Mon 8 Nov 19.30

Come and hear Ai Weiwei, hailed as 'the most important artist working today' by the Financial Times and...

You, Us and Them

Tue 9 Nov 2021 – Wed 10 Nov 2021

You, Us and Them is a surreal, physical journey through the lives of two people whose friendship is...

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.

Ugly Bucket presents:
Good Grief

Thu 11 Nov 2021 – Sat 13 Nov 2021

Ugly Bucket process the death of a friend in the only way they know how, through a high...

BLACK HISTORY MONTH

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

Sat 13 Nov 19.30

The brainchild of Trevor Dwyer-Lynch, a local actor, MC and comedian, Laff Til Ya Fart’s “A Night of Positive Laughter” presents comedy...

HOME Presents

Malvern Theatres, Sheffield Theatres, Wiltshire Creative and HOME in association with MGC presents presents:
The Lemon Table

Tue 16 Nov 2021 – Sat 20 Nov 2021

In The Lemon Table, Julian Barnes brings his wry, forensic, always sensitive, never sentimental literary scalpel to the...

Holly Rush presents:
Superhero Alter Ego

Online from 1 March until 17 November

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

PlayMakers Takeover

Sat 20 Nov 2021

Join Box of Tricks for our first ever day-long PlayMakers Takeover as we bring together Northern playwrights and...

PlayMakers Culture Café

Sat 20 Nov 2021

Join Box of Tricks and our family of supported writers for a coffee and a chat about our...

PlayMakers Masterclass

Sat 20 Nov 2021

Writing from lived experience: A 60-minute practical workshop led by Box of Tricks’ Artistic Director Hannah Tyrrell-Pinder and playwright...

SparkPlug (CTBA)

Starts Sat 20 Nov 2021 at 15.30

Cinema screening of Box of Tricks’ acclaimed stage production SparkPlug (filmed at HOME in 2019) – a punchy, poetic exploration...

Two Destination Language presents:
Near Gone

Tue 23 Nov 2021 – Thu 25 Nov 2021

Two performers have a difficult story to tell. They come on stage and launch themselves into an hour...

Wayward Productions presents:
The Language of Kindness

Wed 24 Nov 2021 – Sat 27 Nov 2021

A stage adaptation of Christie Watson’s best-selling nursing memoir – an ensemble celebration of a workforce who until...

Orbit Festival 2021

Thu 25 Nov 2021 – Sat 4 Dec 2021

Orbit is HOME’s annual festival of exatrordinary, award-winning, international artists. This year’s Orbit Festival will combine live and...

Figs In Wigs presents:
Astrology Bingo

Online Event Fri 26 Nov 8pm

Join your favourite galactic gal pals Figs in Wigs online for Astrology Bingo - the world’s first ever...

Xavier de Sousa presents:
REGNANT

Sat 27 Nov 2021

REGNANT is a new durational play, a dinner party where the guests diving into how we interact with each...

How to be a High Performer with Jake Humphrey and Professor Damian Hughes

Wed 1 Dec 19.30

In this interactive event, Jake and Damian reveal the secrets the world's most remarkable athletes, coaches and entrepreneurs...

Christmas at HOME 2021

Fri 3 Dec 2021 – Thu 23 Dec 2021

Live theatre is back this Christmas at HOME!

Sleepwalk Collective & Christopher Brett Bailey presents:
Psychodrama

Fri 3 Dec 2021 – Sat 4 Dec 2021

Racing across the savage inner-landscape of the human mind, two unlikely (anti)heroes pursue a nightmare vision of freedom...

A Queeriosity Family Christmas

Fri 3 Dec 2021 – Sat 4 Dec 2021

It’s that time of year again! The tree is up, the stars are shining brightly and someone’s chestnuts...

BLACK HISTORY MONTH

HOME Sound Sessions 2021

Sat 11 Dec 19.30

Join us for an evening of celebration and good vibes as three Black artists from across the North...

Le Gateau Chocolat presents:
Duckie

Wed 15 Dec 2021 – Thu 23 Dec 2021

Family-friendly glamour & glitz take centre stage in a classic tale of identity & belonging

Mr Wilsons Second Liners presents:
Leftism

Wed 15 Dec 2021

Leftfield’s iconic debut album - Leftism - gets a signature dose of live brass treatment by Manchester’s favourite...

Bourgeois & Maurice presents:
Bourgeois & Maurice: That’s Snowbiz!

Fri 17 Dec 2021 – Sat 18 Dec 2021

Critically acclaimed musical monsters Bourgeois & Maurice return to HOME to present a Christmas show like no other!

Young Identity: HOME Unlocked

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

Motionhouse Dance presents:
Nobody

Thu 10 Feb 2022 – Sat 12 Feb 2022

Fast-moving and spellbinding, Nobody uses Motionhouse’s renowned dance-circus style to tell this ultimately uplifting story, full of twists...

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