Real Ale House
& Award Winning Theatre

Salford's most Bohemian Back Street Boozer

Make Yourself at Home

Come down to the Kings for a beer in the bar, a snifter in the snug, a get-together in the garden or head upstairs for Award-Winning Theatre, Music, Spoken Word, Lectures and much, much more.

Proudly Salford's most Bohemian Back Street Boozer.

About the Kings (Opens details about our history and venue)

Real Ales & Craft Beer

Serving a rotating selection of local cask ales and our exclusive Queen's Legs blonde ale.

The Upstairs Theatre

Home to world-class fringe theatre and performance art, managed via Eventotron.

Pop-Up Food

Check our schedule for visiting street food vendors and local kitchen takeovers.

Hire Our Space

The theatre or the snug bar can be hired for private events, meetings, or parties.

Kings Arms What's On - Event Integration
Theatre & Arts

What's On

Join us for an incredible season of performances at the heart of Salford. Live theatre, music, and creative arts.

WASTED by Kae Tempest
3rd - 14th Nov 2026
The Kings Arms Theatre Company
Main Stage

WASTED

By Kae Tempest • Directed by John O’Neill

Three friends. One night. A lifetime of things left unsaid.

Ted, Charlotte and Dan have been best mates since school. They’ve shared nights out, bad decisions, big dreams and the messy business of growing up. But somewhere along the way, life got in the way.

Now, on the night of the summer solstice, they come together again. Kae Tempest’s WASTED is a raw, funny and fiercely poetic exploration of friendship, love, loss, ambition and the fear of wasting your life. Set against the pulse of a generation coming of age, it asks what happens when the future you imagined starts to feel further and further away.

Every performance will feature a different Manchester-based spoken word artist, bringing their own voice and poetry before the show.

Book Tickets For Selected Date
Ovid’s Metamorphoses / Pool (No Water)
15 & 16 Oct
Theatre

Ovid’s Metamorphoses / Pool (No Water)

Price: £16

The Marauders Theatre Company return celebrating the 20th anniversary of Mark Ravenhill’s seminal work, ‘Pool (No Water)’, paired with modernised Greco-Roman myths exploring hubris, vengeance, and jealousy.

15th & 16th Oct • 7:30pm
Single Use
Sun 18th OCT
Theatre

Single Use

Price: £14.30

A thoughtful and hilarious one-woman comedy about climate guilt, emotional avoidance, bad first dates and plastic recycling following sell-out runs at Pleasance Theatre and Edinburgh Fringe.

Sun 18th Oct • 7:30pm
Verbose MCR
Mon 19th OCT
Spoken Word

Verbose MCR

Price: £4 - £11

One of Manchester's longest running spoken word events, Verbose brings together a vibrant mix of live literature from poetry, prose, and open mic performers.

Mon 19th Oct • 7:30pm - 9:30pm
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