WHAT'S ON AT THE LOWRY, SALFORD
What's On at The Lowry, Salford
The Lowry at Salford Quays opened in 2000 and boasts two theatres, a drama studio, galleries, and events spaces. The Lyric is the largest UK stage outside the West End with a capacity of 1730. The Quays has a capacity of 440. It hosts diverse events and shows from operas, dance, musicals, plays, comedy, exhibitions, visual / digital arts, and workshops.
A registered charity, The Lowry offer free creative participation opportunities. Their eight partner companies are Access All Areas, Birmingham Royal Ballet, Far From the Norm, LUNG, National Theatre, Ockham’s Razor, Opera North and Rambert.
The Lowry has hosted Britain’s Got Talent, The Royal Variety, I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue and Mastermind. It premiered new musical 42 Balloons. Other shows lined up include Dear England, War Horse, Come From Away, A Christmas Carol, An Inspector Calls, Derren Brown, and The Lion The Witch & The Wardrobe. See what's on at The Lowry below and book tickets online.
The Lowry at Salford Quays opened in 2000 and boasts two theatres, a drama studio, galleries, and events spaces. The Lyric is the largest UK stage outside the West End with a capacity of 1730. The Quays has a capacity of 440. It hosts diverse events and shows from operas, dance, musicals, plays, comedy, exhibitions, visual / digital arts, and workshops.
A registered charity, The Lowry offer free creative participation opportunities. Their eight partner companies are Access All Areas, Birmingham Royal Ballet, Far From the Norm, LUNG, National Theatre, Ockham’s Razor, Opera North and Rambert.
The Lowry has hosted Britain’s Got Talent, The Royal Variety, I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue and Mastermind. It premiered new musical 42 Balloons. Other shows lined up include Dear England, War Horse, Come From Away, A Christmas Carol, An Inspector Calls, Derren Brown, and The Lion The Witch & The Wardrobe. See what's on at The Lowry below and book tickets online.
Most Popular Shows and Events at The Lowry, Salford
Here You Come Again - The New Dolly Parton Musical
The Lowry
Tue 29 Oct - Sat 2 Nov 2024
Rambert Dance in Peaky Blinders - The Redemption of Thomas Shelby
The Lowry
Tue 22 - Sat 26 Oct 2024
What's On at The Lowry, Salford
Ben Elton
Lyric Theatre
Thursday 10 October 2024
Ben Elton, the undisputed godfather of modern stand-up is going back on the road with his new show - Authentic Stupidity. Ben first exploded into the national consciousness back in the 1980's, hosting Channel 4's ground breaking Saturday Li...Slave: A Question of Freedom
Quays Theatre
Thursday 10 - Saturday 12 October 2024
This exceptional award-winning production tells Mende Nazer's inspirational story. Performed by an outstanding ensemble of eight actor-musicians it is a feast of storytelling, music and dance. It celebrates Mende's indomitable spirit, the b...Queens: The Exhibition
Lowry Gallery
Thursday 10 October - Sunday 3 November 2024
Curated by The Lowry, this exhibition will be the first of its kind and has been produced with the support of SIX and its creators Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss. This new exhibition will ask "What kind of Queen are you?" and will start with a c...Pre-Theatre Dining at The Lowry
Restaurant and Bar
Thursday 10 October 2024 - Sunday 19 April 2026
Enjoy lunch, pre-matinee, dinner and pre-theatre dining at The Lowry, overlooking the stunning waterside setting of Salford Quays and MediaCityUK. Pier Eight Restaurant is located on the ground floor of The Lowry. ...Babies Playtime
The Lowry Lookout
Thursday 10 October 2024
A great opportunity to meet other parents and socialise babies, come along to The Lowry's fun and friendly activity for babies. In this session you and your little ones will sing, dance and get creative.10am-10.45am: For babies under 1 (pre...The Lowry Dance & Drama Workshops
The Lowry, Salford
Thursday 10 October 2024 - Thursday 31 July 2025
The Lowry offers a diverse and inclusive creating learning offer for Primary and Secondary Schools. With a variety of workshops linked to curriculum areas, mental health and wellbeing and project work. Held either at The Lowry or in scho...The Lowry Visual Arts Workshops
The Lowry, Salford
Thursday 10 October 2024 - Thursday 31 July 2025
The Lowry offers a diverse and inclusive creating learning offer for Primary and Secondary Schools. With a variety of workshops linked to curriculum areas, mental health and wellbeing and project work. Held either at The Lowry or in the sch...
Carrie Hope Fletcher
Lyric Theatre
Friday 11 October 2024
Following the huge success of her debut UK Concert Tour, 'An Open Book', actress, author, vlogger and award-winning West End sensation Carrie Hope Fletcher is heading out on a brand-new UK tour in 2024. Carrie Hope Fletcher - Love Letters w...A Small Enclosed Room with Alfie Murphy
The Studio
Friday 11 - Saturday 12 October 2024
Created by the "utterly fascinating and wildly creative... definitely and defiantly different" (The Guardian) Cian Binchy, this darkly comic tale explores masking, autism, mental health and fantasy. A guru, a rocker, an artist, and a man w...Under 5s Little Creatives
The Lowry, Salford
Friday 11 October 2024
Come along to Little Creatives in The Lookout for 45 minutes of fun. These sessions are designed for children age 2-5yrs with lots of engaging activities for them to get involved with. All attenders (child and adult) must book a ticket and ...Come What May
Lyric Theatre
Saturday 12 October 2024
The Ultimate Tribute to Moulin Rouge is an all-singing, all-dancing extravaganza as you enter the secret world of one of the greatest movie-musicals of all time. Bursting at the seams with timeless classics including "Come What May," "Your ...SIX Dance Party
The Studio
Saturday 12 October - Sunday 3 November 2024
Don't lose your head! Join the Lowry's SIX inspired dance party to learn some of the famous moves from the show. In this free 45 minute session you will work with a professional dancer to learn some of the legendary SIX choreography. Recomm...
An Evening with Guenther Steiner
Lyric Theatre
Sunday 13 October 2024
Don't miss a hugely entertaining access-all-areas conversation with former Haas Formula 1 team principal Guenther Steiner, star of Netflix's smash hit docuseries Drive to Survive. Reflecting on his decade in charge of Haas, Guenther will of...Lucy Beaumont
Lyric Theatre
Sunday 13 October 2024
It's time for the wife to tour now. Award-winning stand up comedian BEFORE she met Jon Richardson, Lucy Beaumont is going to let loose and let slip on her roller coaster world in her new show The Trouble and Strife. Life through the Beaum...Insomniac's Fable
Quays Theatre
Sunday 13 October 2024
Insomniac's Fable is a contemporary circus and dance piece presented by Finland's Agit-Cirk featuring world class performers that chronicles a protagonist's pursuit of idealised love. But as with all dreams, things can take a surreal turn a...Grooving with Pirates
The Studio
Sunday 13 October 2024
Come on a swashbuckling adventure with family favourite Groove Baby as it sails the seas in this exciting, jazz and funk fuelled show especially for 3-7 year olds and their grown-up crews. Grooving With Pirates is an animated and live-actio...Sandi Toksvig
Lyric Theatre
Monday 14 October 2024
Following the sell-out 2022 tour of Next Slide Please, the comedian, broadcaster, writer and campaigner returns to theatres with an evening to celebrate the publication of her new novel, Friends of Dorothy. The show will be packed with sil...Dancing in the Streets
Lyric Theatre
Tuesday 15 October 2024
Get ready for an unforgettable night as we relive the iconic sound of Motown. A spectacular celebration of classic music from the heart of the Motor City - Detroit, Dancing In The Streets is a concert full of timeless tracks that have shape...Simon Evans
Quays Theatre
Tuesday 15 October 2024
Completing the Trilogy begun with Genius 2.0 and The Work of the Devil, Have We Met? finds stand-up comedian Simon Evans standing, like Ulysses in Tennyson's famous verse, gazing out over the moaning deep and the twinkling rocks and wo...
John Simpson
Lyric Theatre
Wednesday 16 October 2024
Join journalist and broadcaster John Simpson CBE as he turns 80 for The Leaders & Lunatics Tour, an exclusive evening packed with unparalleled insights from one of the most distinguished foreign correspondents of our time. With decades of ...Sydnie Christmas
Lyric Theatre
Wednesday 16 October 2024 - Monday 10 February 2025
Britain's Got Talent 2024 winner Sydnie Christmas made her introduction to the public with 'Tomorrow' from Annie, in a performance that received the Golden Buzzer from Amanda Holden. Hailing from Gravesham in Kent, having studied at the D...Nish Kumar
Lyric Theatre
Thursday 17 October 2024
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...Lived Fiction
Quays Theatre
Thursday 17 October 2024
Lived Fiction is the manifestation of Stopgap's twenty-year history, a timely intervention that can shape the future of contemporary dance. The sensual choreography of Lived Fiction is rendered anew with evocative audio description, exquisi...Dinosaur World Live
Lyric Theatre
Friday 18 - Sunday 20 October 2024
Dare to experience the dangers and delights of Dinosaur World Live in this roarsome interactive show for all the family - now returning to The Lowry due to popular demand! Grab your compass and join our intrepid explorer across uncharted te...Ed Byrne
Lyric Theatre
Friday 18 October 2024
Attributed to Mark Twain, humour is defined as Tragedy Plus Time. Come and join Ed as he tests that formula by mining the most tragic event in his life for laughs. A TV household name, appearing on Mock The Week (BBC), Top Gear (BBC), QI (...Troy Hawke
Lyric Theatre
Saturday 19 October 2024
Fresh from finding and proving decisive links between IKEA, the CIA and the Nazis, with his sell award-winning sold-out tour Sigmund Troy'd, 1930's throwback homeschooled investigator Troy Hawke is back with his new show The Greeters Guil...
Schalk Bezuidenhout
The Studio
Saturday 19 October 2024
Schalk Bezuidenhout is fresh from his Netflix Stand Up Special, and now embarks on his new UK Tour, Keeping Up, with love in his heart and jokes in his pocket. Newly married, Schalk feels older, wiser and much more mature (possibly), but al...
Al Murray - The Pub Landlord
Lyric Theatre
Sunday 20 October 2024
"Country, the UK, lost its way, seeks life partner/mentor/inspiration. Good sense of humour essential. No timewasters, tedious show-offs or offend-o-trons need apply. HR free zone." Standing up so you don't have to take it lying it down any...Larry Dean
Quays Theatre
Sunday 20 October 2024
Thrice Edinburgh Comedy Award-nominee and two-time star of Live At The Apollo, returns with a hilarious brand new show, Dodger, about identity, heroes and the benefits of being a dafty. Larry has been spending a lot of time with his gran...Matt Bragg
The Studio
Sunday 20 October 2024
Recently described by Chortle as a mix between Jack Dee and Frank Skinner wrapped in a Mod's fashion sense, Matt Bragg is taking his debut show on tour. Matt Bragg Has Nothing Wrong with Him is a selection of his best bits from seven years ...Rambert Dance in Peaky Blinders - The Redemption of Thomas Shelby
Lyric Theatre
Tuesday 22 - Saturday 26 October 2024
You young men of the Tunnelling brigade, you are all dead. Not counted among the dead because your bodies were not buried with the dead. But dead inside... Written and adapted for the stage by Peaky Blinders' creator Steven Knight, Peaky Bl...The Elmer Adventure
Quays Theatre
Tuesday 22 - Saturday 26 October 2024
Join three friends on a joyful jungle adventure in Tall Stories' magical, musical adaptation of the much-loved Elmer books by David McKee. Everyone loves the stories about Elmer the patchwork elephant - whether he's pretending to be an ordi...Professor David Wilson & Marcel Theroux - Killer Books
Quays Theatre
Tuesday 22 October 2024
Why do some novels inspire people to commit murder? Which fictional characters and plots arouse lethal violence in the real world? How does fiction become crime fact? Novelist and presenter Marcel Theroux and one of the country's leading cr...Maisie Adam
Quays Theatre
Wednesday 23 October 2024 - Sunday 9 February 2025
Fresh from Live At The Apollo, A League Of Their Own and Have I Got News For You, Maisie Adam is heading back out on tour with a brand new show, Appraisal. She's five years into her job as a comedian now, so she's due an appraisal. Join...
Laura Smyth
Quays Theatre
Thursday 24 October 2024
Star of Live At The Apollo, Laura Smyth's brand-new stand-up show, Living My Best Life, explores all aspects of modern life. She has fun mugging off all the madness of parenting, childhood, school, marriage, social media, work, and chasing...LASH
The Studio
Thursday 24 October 2024
A brand new play from the multi award-winning creators of Jesus, Jane, Mother & Me (★★★★★ - The Stage, and Winner of Adelaide Fringe Critics Circle Award), written and directed by acclaimed playwright Philip Stokes and starring ...Indestructible
The Studio
Friday 25 October 2024
Using animation and AI-generated projections, "sharp art-world dramady" (Theatre Weekly), Indestructible is a highly visual, surprisingly funny and fiercely theatrical show from award-winning Proteus that asks serious and vital questions...Tez Ilyas
Quays Theatre
Saturday 26 October 2024
Blackburn-born British-Pakistani comedian Tez Ilyas, one of the most most celebrated stars in British comedy, and Sunday Times best selling author (Secret Diary ofa British Muslim Aged 13 3⁄4) is back with his hilarious new show, After...A Pleasing Terror - Two Ghost Stories by MR James
The Studio
Saturday 26 October 2024
Over a century after they were first published, the ghost stories of M R James retain their power to terrify and amuse. This gripping one man show retells two of the earliest and eeriest. In Canon Alberic's Scrap-book, a young Cambridge...
Jon Ronson's Psychopath Night
Lyric Theatre
Sunday 27 October 2024
Do Psychopaths rule the world? How do we define normal? Are you friends with a psychopath? Are you worried YOU might be one? Fifteen years has passed since he embarked on the adventure that became his ground-breaking and best-selling work, ...Pierre Novellie
The Studio
Sunday 27 October 2024
A mixture of high-brow and low-brow references from five-star receiving, award-winning, hit-podcasting, Frank Skinner-supporting South African born, Isle of Man-raised, Cambridge-educated stand-up comedian Pierre Novellie. Pierre Novellie i...
Fern Brady
Lyric Theatre
Monday 28 October - Thursday 7 November 2024
Scotland's queen of comedy Fern Brady (Taskmaster, Live At The Apollo, Roast Battle, Russell Howard, The Last Leg) is back on tour with a brand new show, I Gave You Milk to Drink. What happens when you get everything you want and it's not e...Here You Come Again - The New Dolly Parton Musical
Lyric Theatre
Tuesday 29 October - Saturday 2 November 2024
For the first time ever, all of Dolly Parton's biggest hits can be experienced together in a rollicking and joyous new musical comedy Here You Come Again. Packed with the iconic songs 'Jolene, '9 to 5', 'Islands in the Stream', 'I Will Alwa...Run, Rebel
Quays Theatre
Tuesday 29 October - Saturday 2 November 2024
Pilot Theatre brings you an electrifying adaptation of Manjeet Mann's acclaimed novel. Amber is trapped - by her family's rules, by their expectations, by her own fears. But on the running track she is completely free. As her body speeds up...How to get to The Lowry, Salford
Lowry Frequently Asked Questions
Pier 8, The Quays, Salford, M50 3AZ
The nearest parking is available at the Quayside multi-storey car park (formally Lowry Outlet). For further information, please click here.
The tram offers the closet stops to The Lowry. Media City UK and Imperial War Museum are the nearest metrolink stops. Click here for a metrolink map.
The nearest train stations to The Lowry are Eccles Train Station, Irlam Train Station, and Salford Train Station.
The capacity of The Lyric theatre at The Lowry is 1730. The capacity of The Quats Theatre is 440. The capacity of The Aldridge Studio is 150. For further seating plan information please click here.
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If you would like to buy a ticket in person from The Lowry Box Office for shows commencing that day, for AM shows they open for 1 hour before the show and close 15 minutes after the show starts. For PM shows they open 2 hours before commencing that day and close 15 minutes after the show starts. Alternatively, you can see what's on and book online here.
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Most Popular Shows and Events at The Lowry, Salford
Here You Come Again - The New Dolly Parton Musical
The Lowry
Tue 29 Oct - Sat 2 Nov 2024
Rambert Dance in Peaky Blinders - The Redemption of Thomas Shelby
The Lowry
Tue 22 - Sat 26 Oct 2024
