Whether you’re after a spontaneous night of music, a memorable trip to the theatre or side-splitting comedy, there are plenty of great live events going on in and around Manchester this week, with last-minute tickets still available.
John le Carré’s espionage thriller, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, is brought to the stage in this acclaimed adaptation, starring Ralf Little, at Lwory.
Theatre of the Senses brings a stylised physical theatre adaptation of Sophocles’ classical tragedy, Oedipus, to the arches of 53two this Wednesday.
The Amy Winehouse Experience, which features Carline Lowe on vocals alongside a full backing band, brings a night celebrating the legacy and music of one of the most unmistakable voices in British music history to the O2 Ritz on Friday night.
An acclaimed rock opera set in the aftermath of the Peterloo Massacre comes to Manchester later this month. Peterloo in Rock fuses progressive folk rock, classic rock, indie and blues, guiding the audience through pivotal reforms of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and culminating in the present day.
- Words:
- Finn Howard
- Published on:
- Mon 20 Jul 2026
The Bootleg Beatles join the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra for an evening of reimagined, late-era Beatles classics at The Bridgewater Hall this weekend.