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
Bill Bryson's Notes From a Small Island
The Lowry
Tue 11 - Sat 15 Feb 2025
What's On at The Lowry, Salford
Edy Hurst's Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Himself
The Studio
Thursday 31 October - Friday 1 November 2024
Hark! And Boo! Recent revelations hath shone a torch upon the ancestry of Edy Hurst! What visions await in our dark voyage? And why are the Vengaboys here? The latest bonkers show from the man behind "Edy Hurst's Comedy Version of Jeff Wayn...Amy Matthews
The Studio
Saturday 2 November 2024
Following Amy Matthews's 5-star sold-out 2023 run and tours with Ed Byrne, Tom Ellen and Suzi Ruffel, the critically decorated comic returns with Commute with the Foxes, a show exploring the transformative nature of context. A shift in ligh...Jane McDonald
Lyric Theatre
Sunday 3 November 2024
Star of stage and screen and singing sensation Jane McDonald is back with a new tour for 2024. With All My Love will see Jane travel to more than 20 theatres and arenas across the UK, including The Lowry, performing the songs you love as we...Greg Jenner - Totally Chaotic History: Roman Britain Gets Rowdy
Quays Theatre
Sunday 3 November 2024
Join ex-Horrible Histories historian and chart-topping You're Dead to Me podcaster Greg Jenner, as he goes back in time to explore Roman Britain! You can expect myth-busting, quick-fire quizzes and to discover mind-boggling truths about eve...Jason Byrne
Quays Theatre
Sunday 3 November 2024
The biggest selling comedian at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Jason Byrne's inspired, original brand of high-energy intelligent lunacy ensures that there is no other comedian like him and his sell out shows have attracted accolades includi...Emma Doran
The Studio
Sunday 3 November 2024
It's the post-apocalyptic world. There's only one contraceptive pill left. Do you give it to your 19-year-old daughter or keep it for yourself? Is it better to be a 40-year-old grandmother or a 40-year-old new Mum. These are the dilemmas fa...Galleries Relaxed Hour
The Lowry, Salford
Sunday 3 November - Sunday 1 December 2024
Galleries Relaxed Hour: Every Sunday 9 ? 10am or 10-11am. Booking is essential. This is an hour for individuals and families with access requirements who would prefer to experience our Galleries in a calmer and less busy environment. On the...An Evening with Richard Dawkins
Lyric Theatre
Monday 4 November 2024
Settle in for an unforgettable evening with Richard Dawkins, the world-renowned evolutionary biologist, author, and public intellectual, as he embarks on a highly anticipated tour across the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, and Europe...Simon Brodkin
Lyric Theatre
Tuesday 5 November 2024
Simon Brodkin: Screwed Up After selling out 110 dates across the UK and Europe, Simon Brodkin, the world-famous prankster, Lee Nelson creator and most-watched British stand-up comedian on TikTok, brings his outrageous stand-up show to Salfo...The Haunting of Blaine Manor
Main Auditorium
Tuesday 5 - Wednesday 6 November 2024
Renowned American parapsychologist Doctor Roy Earle, famous for discrediting hauntings and exposing fake mediums, is invited to attend a seance in what is said to be the most haunted building in England, a building with a horrific history, ...Everybody Dance
Lyric Theatre
Wednesday 6 November 2024
Join Steps superstar, Claire Richards, for the ultimate disco party. This brand-new sparkling concert tour features the greatest dance and disco hits of all time. From Donna Summer to Dua Lipa, Beyonce, Chic, The Weekend, Chaka Kahn, Daft P...OUTPATIENT
The Studio
Wednesday 6 - Saturday 9 November 2024
Fresh from their Edinburgh run, Crowded Room (The Listening Room, EDITH) return with OUTPATIENT: an explosive autobiographical comedy about the fantasies of human minds and the fragility of human bodies. DEATH. It's coming for us all, so wh...Geraint Thomas & Luke Rowe - Watts Occuring
Lyric Theatre
Friday 8 November 2024
Join Tour de France winner Geraint Thomas and his best mate, super domestique and podcast co-host Luke Rowe, for their first-ever Watts Occurring live show. The two Welshmen will bring their usual mix of cycling comedy and brutally honest i...The Brief Life and Mysterious Death of Boris III
Quays Theatre
Friday 8 - Saturday 9 November 2024
Award-winning Out Of The Forest Theatre's irreverent comedy - featuring live music inspired by Bulgarian and Jewish folk tunes - tells the incredible true story that the world forgot. The year is 1943 and Bulgaria has just told Hitler where...An Audience with Lucy Worsley on Jane Austen
Lyric Theatre
Saturday 9 November 2024
Following her sold-out Agatha Christie tour, acclaimed historian Lucy Worsley leads us into the life of one of English literature's most cherished figures. For these live, beautifully-illustrated talks, Lucy invites audiences to step into t...
Frank Skinner
Lyric Theatre
Saturday 9 November 2024
Following a sell-out run at the Edinburgh Fringe and 7-nights at the Lyric Theatre in London's West End, comic legend Frank Skinner is back with his critically acclaimed new show '30 Years of Dirt'. Skinner's live career began in 1987 when ...An Audience with Monty Don
Lyric Theatre
Sunday 10 November 2024
Join BBC Gardeners' World presenter and gardening writer, Monty Don, as he shares his passion for gardens and the unique role they play in human inspiration and wellbeing. Monty has been making television programmes for over 30 years and ha...Grace Campbell
Lyric Theatre
Sunday 10 - Monday 18 November 2024
Grace Campbell, "one of the funniest women in Britain" (Times), is On Heat. About to enter her 30s, Campbell has recently made some huge life changes. She got a dog, she stopped replying to internet trolls, she tried non-monogamy, and then...Ned Boulting
Quays Theatre
Sunday 10 November 2024
ITV's Tour de France commentator Ned Boulting returns again. But this time he's 101 years too late for the 1923 Tour de France! In his latest celebration of the greatest race on earth, Ned delves into the hidden mysteries of a mysterious ro...Nature Elly
The Studio
Sunday 10 November 2024
A puppet theatre show created especially for 2-5 year olds, full of interactive fun, beautifully written original music and a cast of stunning and adorable animal puppets for little ones to meet. Created by award-winning Barmpot Theatre, in...Ant Middleton
Lyric Theatre
Monday 11 November 2024
This year, Ant Middleton returns to the UK stage to talk all things K2; from the gut-wrenching experience of leaving his family to travel to one of the most dangerous mountains in the world - and the consecutive obstacles he had to surmount...Talk Of The Devils - Live
Quays Theatre
Monday 11 November 2024
The world's biggest Manchester United podcast brought to you by The Athletic returns to the live stage. Back by popular demand, the sell-out tour is returning, and you don't want to miss it, as they bring you exclusive insight and knowl...Wonder Boy
Quays Theatre
Tuesday 12 - Saturday 16 November 2024
Olivier Award-winner Sally Cookson (A Monster Calls) directs the critically acclaimed Bristol Old Vic production of WONDER BOY by Ross Willis, a heart-warming and inspiring story about the power of communication for ages 12+ Sonny is twelve...Opera North - A Midsummer Night's Dream
Lyric Theatre
Wednesday 13 November 2024
Out in the wood Oberon and Tytania, the powerful Fairy King and Queen, are locked in a dispute so fierce it's causing climate catastrophe. In nearby Athens live two young women, best friends, one loved by two men, the other by none. When th...Scratch Nights x Dance
The Studio
Wednesday 13 November 2024
The Lowry's Artist Development team present Scratch Nights X Dance event, co-curated with Associate Artists Thick & Tight. Join us for an evening of new and experimental work from four dance artists and companies based in the Northwes...
Opera North - Ruddigore
Lyric Theatre
Thursday 14 November 2024
Bad baronet Sir Despard Murgatroyd has inherited a centuries-old witch's curse forcing him to commit a crime a day or die in agony. So it's a huge relief when timid Robin Oakapple is revealed as his long-lost elder brother and the true inhe...Flock
The Studio
Thursday 14 - Friday 15 November 2024
A new play by multi award winning Lin Coghlan, presented by Playing ON. "Dartford. Hastings. Margate by the sea." Robbie wants nothing more than to be a grown up, and live with his sister Cel. Cel wants to go to university and find the kind...
Opera North - The Magic Flute
Lyric Theatre
Friday 15 November 2024 - Friday 14 March 2025
Enter an enchanted world and join Prince Tamino on his quest to rescue Pamina, daughter of the Queen of the Night, held captive by Sarastro, the Priest of the Sun. Tamino is accompanied by Papageno, a bird-catcher, who is also on a quest - ...
Opera North - The Big Opera Adventure
Lyric Theatre
Saturday 16 November 2024
A thrilling quest for all the family. Join the Orchestra of Opera North and singers on a madcap journey to meet some of opera's most colourful characters - in just 50 minutes! In this new family-friendly show, you'll encounter heroes and vi...Sooz Kempner
The Studio
Saturday 16 November 2024
The award-winning, Twitter sensation and BBC Radio 4 regular is back with a brand new show for 2024, Class of 2000. As the year 2000 approached Sooz was about to turn 15 and the PlayStation 2 was about to launch... it was a new beginning fo...Bharatiya Vrund Gaan Indian Choir - Rang-Tarang
Quays Theatre
Sunday 17 November 2024
An evening of joyful & soothing Indian choral compositions for inner joy and wellbeing, accompanied by the finest Indian musicians and a String Orchestra. Presented by Bharatiya Vrund Gaan (BVG) - the Indian Adult Choir - and SHIVA - the In...Robin Morgan
The Studio
Sunday 17 November 2024
As featured on BBC Two's Mock The Week and BBC Radio 4's The News Quiz, Robin Morgan is back on the road with a hilarious brand new show, The Spark - his biggest tour to date. His previous shows have dealt with a proposal, marriage, kids an...Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake
Lyric Theatre
Tuesday 19 - Saturday 30 November 2024
Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake returns for its 30th anniversary with a 2024/25 UK tour. This audacious reinvention of Tchaikovsky's masterpiece caused a sensation when it premiered almost 30 years ago and has since become the most successful da...Chosen
The Studio
Tuesday 19 - Wednesday 20 November 2024
Imagine accidentally killing Harry Potter, Luke Skywalker, or Jesus and having to take their place. Chosen is a pop-rock comedy musical by Taiyo Yoshida & Dominic Varney about Sue, an IT Support Technician in her 60s, who wakes from a coma ...Ballet Black - Heroes
The Lowry, Salford
Wednesday 20 - Thursday 21 November 2024
Now in their 22nd year, Cassa Pancho's Ballet Black return to The Lowry OR make their debut at The Lowry with a new double bill, Ballet Black: HEROES. Award-winning choreographer, Mthuthuzeli November contemplates the purpose of life in The...Travis Jay
The Studio
Thursday 21 November 2024
Following his sell-out show at London's Bloomsbury Theatre, his Run at Soho Theatre and a critically acclaimed Edinburgh Festival Fringe debut in 2019, Travis Jay brings his brand-new show 'Travesty' on his debut TOUR. 26 Dates up and down ...Matt Forde
Quays Theatre
Friday 22 November 2024 - Sunday 2 February 2025
Finally, the UK has a new government. That can only mean one thing: new people to take the piss out of. Leading political comedian and satirist Matt Forde makes this his personal mission. Host of hit political podcast 'The Political Party',...Tatty MacLeod
Quays Theatre
Saturday 23 November 2024
Hot off the back of a sold-out Edinburgh Fringe run, Tatty Macleod is bringing her certain je ne sais quoi to the stage with her debut hour of comedy: FUGUE. Building on her hugely popular English vs French online sketches she asks the impo...George Lewis
Quays Theatre
Sunday 24 November 2024 - Sunday 23 March 2025
Described as 'the funniest dad on Instagram', Stockport stand-up comedian George has racked up hundreds of millions of views for his hilarious online sketches about the big things in life, like owning an air fryer, watching a David Beckham ...Felicity Ward
Quays Theatre
Thursday 28 November 2024
Star of The Office (Australia), Felicity Ward returns for her first national tour in six years, I'm Exhausting! In a two hour laugh out loud extravaganza, Felicity Ward talks about something that no one has ever done before - she had a baby...
Yotam Ottolenghi
Lyric Theatre
Sunday 1 December 2024
Spend a delicious evening with the inimitable chef and restaurateur Yotam Ottolenghi, celebrating the release of his highly anticipated new cookbook, Comfort, Ottolenghi's most personal work since his era-defining publications, Simple and F...Count Arthur Strong is Charles Dickens in A Christmas Carol
Quays Theatre
Sunday 1 December 2024
Due to public pressure, Count Arthur Strong extends his fond farewell to you, for a 'once in a lifetime' limited run. Arthur delivers the Charles Dickens story and follows this with his own adaptation of the most classic of festive tales, A...
Come From Away
Lyric Theatre
Tuesday 3 December 2024 - Sunday 5 January 2025
Come From Away - a moving tale that captures the spirit of true events that transpired in the wake of 9/11! This musical has taken the West End by storm, winning four Olivier Awards including one for Best New Musical. Aside from a fleet o...A Christmas Carol - The Musical
Quays Theatre
Friday 6 December 2024 - Sunday 5 January 2025
The classic Dickens story comes to life with true broadway spectacle in this Musical version brought to you by Alan Menken (Disney's Beauty And The Beast The Little Mermaid and Newsies and Little Shop Of Horrors) and Lynn Ahrens (Ragtime, S...Stick Man
Quays Theatre
Tuesday 10 December 2024 - Sunday 5 January 2025
Touching, funny and utterly original, Freckle Productions' delightful adaptation of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler's Stick Man is back in town! What starts off as a morning jog becomes quite the misadventure for Stick Man: a dog wants t...Little Penguin's First Christmas
The Studio
Saturday 28 - Tuesday 31 December 2024
From the company that brought you the sell-out productions of Snowbabies! and Aleena's Garden, Little Penguin's First Christmas is an immersive, festive experience for babies aged 0-36 months and their grown-ups! Filled with puppetry, origi...An Inspector Calls
Lyric Theatre
Tuesday 7 - Saturday 18 January 2025
J B Priestley's Classic Thriller AN INSPECTOR CALLS Stephen Daldry's multi award-winning National Theatre production of JB Priestley's classic thriller returns. Hailed as the theatrical event of its generation, winning more awards than any ...Pagrav Dance Company - ROOH: Within Her
Quays Theatre
Tuesday 14 January 2025
A compelling solo piece from renowned choreographer and performer Urja Desai Thakore. In ROOH: Within Her, Urja Desai Thakore explores narratives in quiet, everyday, heroism across two millennia. She stages the turmoil of a mother - a celeb...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
Bill Bryson's Notes From a Small Island
The Lowry
Tue 11 - Sat 15 Feb 2025
