DRAMA PLAYS IN LIVERPOOL
DRAMA PLAYS IN LIVERPOOL
Most Popular Drama Plays in Liverpool
Only Fools and Horses The Musical
Liverpool Empire Theatre
Sat 14 - Sat 21 Jun 2025
Tina - The Tina Turner Musical
Liverpool Empire Theatre
Tue 12 - Sat 23 Aug 2025
Fawlty Towers - The Play
Liverpool Empire Theatre
Tue 11 - Sat 15 Nov 2025
The Jury Experience - An Immersive Courtroom Case
Playhouse
Sat 14 Jun - Thu 10 Jul 2025
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Only Fools and Horses The Musical
Liverpool Empire Theatre, Liverpool
Saturday 14 - Saturday 21 June 2025
Stick a pony in your pocket - The Trotters are back and coming to a town near you! The smash hit show Only Fools and Horses The Musical - direct from a record-breaking four-year sold-out run-in London's West End - featuring Del Boy, Rodney,...The Walrus Has a Right To Adventure
Everyman Theatre, Liverpool
Saturday 14 - Saturday 21 June 2025
Funny, surprising and inspired by real animal encounters from around the world, this is powerful, inventive storytelling at its creative best - a swooping, soaring play by Billie Collins about instinct, expectation and identity, and what it...The Jury Experience - An Immersive Courtroom Case
Playhouse, Liverpool
Saturday 14 June - Thursday 10 July 2025
Step into the heart of a high-stakes trial with The Jury Experience in Manchester. In this live theatre show, YOU are the jury-the power to deliver justice is entirely in your hands. You'll examine every piece of the puzzle, from witness t...Rum
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Saturday 14 June 2025
Written & Performed by Joe Mallalieu, RUM is a darkly humorous and powerful new award-winning play that wrestles with masculinity, mental health and addiction in the trade. Meet Danny, plastering since he was a kid, he's not scared of...Plays For The People
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Tuesday 17 June 2025
Join acclaimed theatre maker Andy Smith and award-winning applied arts practitioner Lynsey O'Sullivan for a day of play, discussion, and action. This day will see three performances of plays from the ongoing project Plays for the People: ...ShakeItUp - The Improvised Shakespeare Show
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Tuesday 17 June 2025
ShakeItUp Theatre launched The Improvised Shakespeare Show in 2018. Since then they have performed well over 100 totally improvised Shakespeare plays to audiences across the UK, from the Minack Theatre in Cornwall, to London's The Other Pal...Shellshocked
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Wednesday 18 June 2025
From the creative team behind the five-star, multi-award-winning Jesus, Jane, Mother and Me and LASH, comes a thrilling new drama. The horrors of World War Two have broken young Wesley, but could the madness he encounters beyond it save or ...The Highwayman
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Wednesday 25 - Saturday 28 June 2025
The Highwayman is waiting, and there is no escape. It's 1769 and everyone is flocking north, every ale house is packed with the great and the bad. It's the place to be; a region drunk on making money, social climbing, gambling and gin, but ...Two Steps Back
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Wednesday 25 June 2025
From the writer and performer of 'No Coward Soul', this new play by Emily Parr explores the struggle to adjust to student life when homesickness hits hard. She was not of an ice-breaking, team-playing, shot-drinking disposition. Hiding in h...OddSocks - A Midsummer Night's Dream
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Friday 27 - Saturday 28 June 2025
Oddsocks are taking to the road again this summer with another high-energy, feel-good, family theatre show - Shakespeare's most magical comedy, A Midsummer Night's Dream! Four lovers run off to the Athenian forest where mysterious woodland ...Boss New Plays
Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool
Friday 4 - Saturday 5 July 2025
Liverpool's Lantern Writers have been working steadily with the best of the city's acting talent in recent years, providing an opportunity for new theatre voices to be heard on the Merseyside stage. Expect two very different nights of theat...Cock
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Thursday 17 - Saturday 19 July 2025
Following its Northern premiere in 2024, COCK by Mike Bartlett and Directed by Rupert Hill returns as part of a large 2025 tour. The play centres on John, a man who finds himself torn between his long-term boyfriend and a woman he unexpecte...Living the Life of Riley
St Helens Theatre Royal, St Helens
Wednesday 23 July 2025
Starring Vicky Entwistle, Living the Life of Riley is a heart-warming, heart-breaking and hilarious tale of a family, trying to negotiate their way through teenage tantrums, autism, and Grandma. Joanne Riley always knew there was something...Raves R Us
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Friday 25 - Saturday 26 July 2025
The most original night of immersive theatre you've ever been a part of! Naughty Corner Productions are a multi-award-winning theatre company from Liverpool, and they are bringing their biggest hit back to the stage. Toys R Us has closed do...Tina - The Tina Turner Musical
Liverpool Empire Theatre, Liverpool
Tuesday 12 - Saturday 23 August 2025
West End mega-hit TINA - The Tina Turner Musical announces its first ever UK & Ireland tour. From humble beginnings in Nutbush, Tennessee, to her triumphant transformation into a multi award-winning global superstar, Tina Turner didn't just...
Twelfth Night
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Friday 29 August 2025
The brilliantly bold Not Too Tame return with an electrifying production of Twelfth Night, starring Les Dennis as Malvolio. The company that brought you 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' return with their unique brand of high octane theatre in a ...I Am Steven Gerrard
Epstein Theatre, Liverpool
Thursday 11 - Saturday 13 September 2025
A story of football, aspiration, music, Steven Gerrard, loneliness, reality television, love, religion, friends, loss, passion, enemies, Davina McCall, politics, ambition, family, virginity, past generations - and the impact they leave behi...Romeo & Juliet
Everyman Theatre, Liverpool
Saturday 13 September - Saturday 4 October 2025
Can their love defy the stars? Shakespeare's heart-wrenching classic has mesmerised audiences for generations, and in this potent, powerful new Everyman production, director Ellie Hurt takes it back to its brilliant basics. United by passio...Austen's Women: Lady Susan
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Tuesday 16 - Wednesday 17 September 2025
From Dyad Productions, the award-winning creators of Austen's Women, A Christmas Carol, I, Elizabeth, Female Gothic, Christmas Gothic, and A Room of One's Own. Austen's Women are back - in a brand-new solo show! Devil-may-care Lady S...Royal Court Stage Write Night
Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool
Tuesday 23 September - Tuesday 18 November 2025
An evening of script in hand readings from the Royal Court's new writing programme - Stage Write. There will be a selection of 10 minute excerpts from some of the scripts that have been submitted over the last two months. This is the chance...National Theatre Live - Inter Alia
Liverpool Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool
Friday 26 September 2025
Rosamund Pike (Saltburn) makes her National Theatre debut as Jessica in this searing examination of modern masculinity and motherhood. Written by Suzie Miller and directed by Justin Martin following their global phenomenon, Prima Facie. Jes...The HandleBards - The Tempest
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Friday 3 - Saturday 25 October 2025
This production of The Tempest is the first collaboration between Shakespeare North Playhouse and internationally renowned theatre company ran by cycling actors, The HandleBards, who carry all the necessary set, props & costume on the b...New Dawn Fades: A Play About Joy Division and Manchester
The Live Rooms, Chester
Thursday 9 October 2025
The brand-new stage production of New Dawn Fades: A Play About Joy Division & Manchester celebrates its 10th anniversary. The new touring production is written by Brian Gorman, produced & directed by Giles D Bastow and Sean Mason fo...Breaking the Code
Playhouse, Liverpool
Tuesday 21 - Saturday 25 October 2025
It's not breaking a code that matters, it's where you go from there. Mastermind code breaker. Maverick. Arguably one of the most important and inquisitive minds of the twentieth century. Alan Turing is famed for cracking the Enigma code at ...Fawlty Towers - The Play
Liverpool Empire Theatre, Liverpool
Tuesday 11 - Saturday 15 November 2025
Nearly 50 years since it first hit our TV screens, the "Greatest British sitcom of all time" (Radio Times) is now a brand-new stage play, adapted by comedy legend John Cleese and directed by Caroline Jay Ranger. Featuring your favourite ...It's a Wonderful Life
Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool
Tuesday 11 - Saturday 15 November 2025
Return to Bedford Falls this Christmas when, after a sell out run in 2024, Old Fruit Jar Productions bringback their heart-warming adaptation of a classic Christmas story. Christmas Eve, 1945... George Bailey, a down-on-his-luck banker, bel...It's a Wonderful Life
Epstein Theatre, Liverpool
Monday 17 - Friday 28 November 2025
Return to Bedford Falls this Christmas when, after a sell out run in 2024, Old Fruit Jar Productions bringback their heart-warming adaptation of a classic Christmas story. Christmas Eve, 1945... George Bailey, a down-on-his-luck banker, bel...Mama Afrika
Liverpool Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool
Saturday 29 November 2025
Zimbabwean born singer, musician and storyteller Anna Mudeka tells the remarkable life story of an iconic South African singer, songwriter and civil rights activist, Miriam Makeba, charting her rise from the townships of Johannesburg to glo...Dear England
Liverpool Empire Theatre, Liverpool
Tuesday 3 - Saturday 7 March 2026
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "A theatrical spectacle as uplifting as any England victory." (Telegraph). The National Theatre's Olivier-Award winning smash hit head out on a national tour, following a record-breaking run in the West End. The country tha...Garth Marenghi
The Atkinson, Southport
Wednesday 18 March 2026
From the fevered imaginata of Horror Fiction's Grand Frightener Garth Marenghi - Channel 4's spoof pulp horror author created by English comedians Matthew Holness and Richard Ayoade - author of Sunday Times Bestselling Garth Marenghi's T...
2:22 A Ghost Story
Liverpool Empire Theatre, Liverpool
Monday 6 - Saturday 11 April 2026
Winner of BEST NEW PLAY at the WhatsOnStage Awards, Kevin Clifton (Strictly Come Dancing, Everybody's Talking About Jamie, Chicago) and Stacey Dooley (TV presenter and Strictly winner) star as fictional couple Sam and Jenny in this edge-of-...To Kill a Mockingbird
