WHAT'S ON AT THE AVIVA STUDIOS, MANCHESTER
What's On at the Aviva Studios, Manchester
Aviva Studios opened in 2023 and is home to Factory International. Its flexible design means it can adapt to host anything from intimate theatre shows, detailed exhibitions, global multimedia performances, and concerts. Aviva Studios delivers dance, theatre, music, visual arts, exhibitions, many premieres, and MIF.
Aviva Studios include the Warehouse with a capacity for 5’000 standing, and the hall with a capacity for 1’600 seated or 2’000 standing. These spaces can also be combined creating exciting and dynamic opportunities at Aviva.
Aviva Studios continuous programme of innovative and immersive performances creates a platform for local and international artists. Aviva has many shows, events and productions to look forward to including Carl Barron, Womex, and Nikita Kuzmin - Midnight Dancer. See what's on at Aviva Studios below and book tickets online.
Aviva Studios opened in 2023 and is home to Factory International. Its flexible design means it can adapt to host anything from intimate theatre shows, detailed exhibitions, global multimedia performances, and concerts. Aviva Studios delivers dance, theatre, music, visual arts, exhibitions, many premieres, and MIF.
Aviva Studios include the Warehouse with a capacity for 5’000 standing, and the hall with a capacity for 1’600 seated or 2’000 standing. These spaces can also be combined creating exciting and dynamic opportunities at Aviva.
Aviva Studios continuous programme of innovative and immersive performances creates a platform for local and international artists. Aviva has many shows, events and productions to look forward to including Carl Barron, Womex, and Nikita Kuzmin - Midnight Dancer. See what's on at Aviva Studios below and book tickets online.
Most Popular Shows and Events at Aviva Studios, Manchester
What's On at the Aviva Studios, Manchester
Bowling For Soup
The Hall
Saturday 8 February 2025
With their thirty year anniversary as a band on the horizon in 2024, Texas' favourite punk rock export Bowling For Soup continue to grow their global fanbase and expand their success year on year. Also dubbed the crown princes of pop punk, ...Figures in Extinction
The Hall
Wednesday 19 - 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...Doves
The Hall
Thursday 6 - Friday 7 March 2025
Doves had something of an usual genesis in '90s Madchester. Founding members Jimi Goodwin, Jez Williams and Andy Williams were all members of Sub Sub, best remembered for their 1993 hit single Ain't No Love (Ain't No Use). After a fire at ...The Reytons
The Warehouse
Saturday 8 March 2025
Like the Arctic Monkeys, who they are often compared, the South Yorkshire four-piece are born under a Sheffield sky with a penchant for pubs, pints and pandemonium, and are bursting with working class grit and tales from the local boozer to...FKA twigs
The Warehouse
Tuesday 18 March 2025
GRAMMY-nominated, multidisciplinary Cheltenham art pop star Tahliah Barnett, better known as FKA twigs, is a singer, songwriter, creative director and dancer known for her avant-garde performance style. Her work has garnered acclaim and has...Cycles
The Hall
Friday 21 - Saturday 22 March 2025
Cycles is movement at its most fluid, distilled and skilled. Resolute and unapologetic, Boy Blue's latest production is a celebration of hip hop dance in all its forms. Experience the connection between the movement on stage and the rhyth...Azyr All Night Long @ Factory International
Aviva Studios, Manchester
Friday 28 March 2025
On 28th March we takeover Factory International with Azyr for what will be the first show of its kind in this incredible venue......Hannah Laing
Aviva Studios, Manchester
Saturday 29 March 2025
Regularly featured on BBC Radio 1's Essential Mix, Hannah Laing is a Scottish disc jockey and electronic music producer from Dundee specialising in high energy trance, techno, and house music. ...Olly Alexander (Years & Years)
The Hall
Friday 4 April 2025
Critically acclaimed singer and actor Olly Alexander rose to fame as the frontman of Years & Years - the wildly successful, chart-topping pop band who formed in 2010. In 2021, he received a string of nominations for his stunning perform...Badly Drawn Boy
The Hall
Saturday 5 - Sunday 6 April 2025
Dunstable-born, Bolton-raised, Manchester-living Mercury-prize winning folk rocker Damon Gough has always been one to wear his heart on his sleeve, and his truly personal and heartfelt catalogue of glorious, colourful warming, honest pop so...Primal Scream
The Warehouse
Friday 11 April 2025
Formed in Glasgow in 1982 by Bobby Gillespie, a member of Manchester-based Glaswegian indie act The Wake, Primal Scream's career didn't really take off until the legendary frontman had left his temporary role as drummer of The Jesus and Mar...WAKE
The Warehouse
Thursday 17 - Monday 21 April 2025
THISISPOPBABY's electrifying new show comes to Manchester with glitter, beats and banging tunes - this Irish WAKE is the ultimate celebration of life. Experience WAKE - the electrifying Irish variety phenomenon from acclaimed Irish theatre...Hamlet Hail to the Thief
The Warehouse
Sunday 27 April - Sunday 18 May 2025
A frenetic adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet haunted by Radiohead's Hail to the Thief. Shakespeare's great tragedy and Radiohead's seminal album collide for a feverish experience that fuses theatre, music, and movement. In this frenetic di...Nikita Kuzmin - Midnight Dancer
The Hall
Thursday 8 May 2025
Ukrainian-Italian dance star Nikita Kuzmin brings his brand-new show to the stage. Rising star of Strictly Come Dancing and Celebrity Big Brother Nikita Kuzmin brings his brand-new show, Midnight Dancer to the stage on his first ever solo U...Tangerine Dream
The Hall
Friday 9 May 2025
Described by The New York Times as 'the best synth band in the world', seven-time Grammy nominees Tangerine Dream are a German electronic music group founded in 1967 by Edgar Froese. They have released more than one hundred albums with th...
Nish Kumar
The Hall
Sunday 18 May 2025
In this election year - with the country in turmoil - there's only one comedian who can kill the mood even further... Nish Kumar - one of The Guardian and The Telegraph's 50 Best Comedians of the 21st Century - is back on tour with his bran...Two Mr Ps in a Podcast
The Hall
Saturday 18 October 2025
Mr P has been a primary school teacher for over twelve years. He still works part-time in a school in Davyhulme and leads training in schools all over the UK and beyond. From sharing ideas and funny insights into life in the classroom, he h...The Witcher in Concert
The Hall
Thursday 6 - Friday 7 November 2025
Celebrate the 10th anniversary of the critically acclaimed The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt as the open-world RPG's timeless score is brought to life with a live orchestra performance featuring special appearances by Polish folk metal band Perci...How to get to the Aviva Studios, Manchester
Most Popular Shows and Events at Aviva Studios, Manchester
