UPCOMING EVENTS
EMPTY SPACE – September
Gorilla Invitational 12
Sat 5th September 3pm
Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu returns to The Empty Space
Elite Go-Gi grappling in Manchester, full card available online
Tickets £35
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Behind Closed Doors
پشت درهای بسته
Thu 10th – Fri 11th September 7pm
A new play by Ali Aminipour & Ghazal Aghaei
Directed by Ali Aminipour
This performance is in Farsi.
Tickets £21.68 including booking fee
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Lady Wildflower presents
Show Us Your Newbies! – Burlesque Student Showcase
Sat 26th September 7.30pm
Lady Wildflower presents her latest Burlesque graduates in Show Us Your Newbies!
With debut performances and new work from students past and present as well as a special group number choreographed by Lady Wildflower.
Come and support these brilliant new performers and witness the latest fabulousness to come out of Manchester, Leeds & the North West.
Whooping and cheering is essential!
Tickets from £18.70 including booking fee
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EMPTY SPACE – October
The Players Keep –
Dungeons and Dragons Live
Wed 7th October 7pm
After the success of their 2025 live date, The Players Keep return to The Empty Space in Manchester to film an episode of Campaign 2 of their Dungeons & Dragons show.
Tickets £22.25 including booking fee
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Radu Isac
Sadly Funny
Thu 8th October 8.15pm
Ever laugh at a joke that’s a bit wrong but oh-so-right? That’s this show in a nutshell.
Radu started comedy in Romania, earning the title of the “comedians’ comedian.” After moving to London, he became a finalist in the English Comedian of the Year and has been crafting his darkly funny, sugar-coated cynicism ever since. Think venomous wit with a glittery twist.
He’s appeared on BBC, Channel 4, and Comedy Central, and opened for comedy heavyweights like Louie CK and Jim Gaffigan.
“Intelligently subversive” – The Scotsman
Don’t miss it – you’ll laugh when you know you shouldn’t!
Tickets £23
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The Empty Space Young Company presents
SHREK THE MUSICAL JR
Wed 28th October – Sun 1st November
Beauty is in the eye of the ogre in Shrek The Musical JR., based on the Oscar-winning DreamWorks Animation film and fantastic Broadway musical. It’s a “big bright beautiful world” as everyone’s favourite ogre, Shrek, leads a cast of fairytale misfits on an adventure to rescue a princess and find true acceptance. Part romance and part twisted fairy tale, Shrek JR is an irreverently fun show with a powerful message for the whole family.
Tickets coming soon
EMPTY SPACE – November
Sea-Change Theatre presents
Raising the Wreck – Revisited!
By Sue Frumin
Thu 5th – Sat 7th November
Originally commissioned by Gay Sweatshop Theatre Company – one of the first British plays to feature a multi-racial cast of women and to place lesbian stories on stage.
Raising the Wreck is moving, funny, insightful, and is based on the true stories of legendary women pirates including Grace O’Malley, Mary Read and Ching Pan Twu. The play is set in a sunken galleon where four fierce female pirates, long since dead, recount their stories to a woman who has fallen into a timeslip from 1980s London, while running a pirate radio station.
AGE: 15+
Tickets from £16.26 including booking fee
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Oedipus The King
اديپوس پادشاه
Mon 9th – Tue 10th November 7.30pm
A haunting tale of one of the strangest and most terrifying things that could ever happen to a person.
Witness the unimaginable power of fate—a destiny so relentless that no one can escape it, no matter how hard they try.
Age 13+
This performance is in Persian.
Tickets £21.68 including booking fee
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EMPTY SPACE – December
The Paradox Twin: Runtime Error – Live
Fri 4th December
Join The Paradox Twin at Empty Space for a special evening celebrating the release of our latest work, A Romance of Many Dimensions, with support from Dikajee.
The Paradox Twin are known for their blend of progressive rock and emotional storytelling, this performance will take you through the layers of the new album in an intimate setting. Don’t miss this chance to hear the new tracks live as we bring the concepts and soundscapes of the record to life.
Tickets from £10.84 including booking fee
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EMPTY SPACE – February
Will Mars: Life’s A Joke
4th February 2027 8pm
After years spent knocking on closed industry doors, Will shared his story online – and audiences decided to kick them open instead.
Millions watched. Hundreds of thousands followed. One question kept appearing:
“Why isn’t this guy famous?”
So Will is finally doing what nobody expected: his debut tour.
Expect a relentless barrage of razor-sharp one-liners, hilarious true stories, and a comedy show about never quite fitting in — a working-class lad who became middle class, a northerner in the south, and a comedian who built his own route when the usual doors stayed shut.
The industry didn’t create this tour. The audience did.
AGE: 18+