DRAMA PLAYS IN LIVERPOOL
Most Popular Drama Plays in Liverpool
Only Fools and Horses The Musical
Liverpool Empire Theatre
Mon 9 - Sat 21 Jun 2025
Fawlty Towers - The Play
Liverpool Empire Theatre
Tue 11 - Sat 15 Nov 2025
Tina - The Tina Turner Musical
Liverpool Empire Theatre
Tue 12 - Sat 23 Aug 2025
Boys from the Blackstuff
Liverpool Empire Theatre
Tue 25 - Sat 29 Mar 2025
The Peaceful Hour

Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool
Saturday 22 February - Saturday 8 March 2025
Gerry Linford (Haunted Scouse, Yellow Breck Road) has written a brand new show about true love, real life and cheesy love songs set in Kirkby, 1985. When it comes to relationships, Julie has had more misses than hits. She just wants someon...Royal Court Stage Write Night

Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool
Tuesday 25 February - Tuesday 4 March 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...Love's Labour's Lost (more or less)

Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Friday 28 February - Saturday 22 March 2025
A brand-new comedy theatre show from Stephen Joseph Theatre, the team behind the UK Theatre Award-nominated The Comedy of Errors (more or less). A stag do in Ibiza. A hen do in Menorca, What could go wrong?... Everything! The stags have mad...Willy Russell's Shirley Valentine

Everyman Theatre, Liverpool
Saturday 1 - Saturday 29 March 2025
Willy Russell's one-woman show, Shirley Valentine, comes home to the Liverpool Everyman as part of our 60th birthday celebrations. Originally commissioned and staged by the Everyman, the role of Shirley will be played by Liverpool actor ...Ghost Stories

Playhouse, Liverpool
Tuesday 11 - Saturday 15 March 2025
The long-running West End hit returns! When Professor Goodman, arch-sceptic out to debunk the paranormal, embarks on an investigation of three apparent hauntings - as recounted by a night-watchman, a teenage boy, and a businessman awaiting ...Motherkind

Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Saturday 15 March 2025
Motherkind is a playful and powerful kaleidoscope of stories about parenting, the maternal brain and making space from Mothers Who Make. The vignette style show explores the early days, the fragility, the absurdity and the beauty of life....Pig Heart Boy

Playhouse, Liverpool
Tuesday 18 - Saturday 22 March 2025
Is it better to have a pig's heart that works ... than a human heart that doesn't? Cameron is thirteen, and all he wants is to be normal - have friends, go to school, and dive to the bottom of his local swimming pool. But he desperately nee...The Moth

Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Tuesday 18 March 2025
Acclaimed Elysium Theatre Company return after their celebrated 50th Anniversary production of 'The Island' in 2024 with a drama by Paul Herzberg that will grip you from the beginning and not let go. 1994: a chance meeting on a train betwee...Red Or Dead

Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool
Friday 21 March - Saturday 19 April 2025
Peter Mullan (Ozark, Westworld, Mum) is Bill Shankly in an incredible new show adapted from David Peace's iconic novel for Liverpool's Royal Court, which also stars Les Dennis, Gordon Kennedy and Allison McKenzie. This is the fictionalise...Learning To Fly

Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Friday 21 March 2025
With a 5 star review in the Guardian, who described it as "a riveting remarkable hour of theatre," this uplifting, big hearted and hilarious new one man show from James Rowland promises a glorious and irreverent evening with one of the UK's...Boys from the Blackstuff

Liverpool Empire Theatre, Liverpool
Tuesday 25 - Saturday 29 March 2025
Bill Kenwright Ltd presents Liverpool's Royal Court and National Theatre production of Alan Bleasdale's "Boys From The Blackstuff" by James Graham. Gizza job. Go on, gizzit. 80s Liverpool. Chrissie, Loggo, George, Dixie and Yosser are used ...Tambo and Bones

Playhouse, Liverpool
Wednesday 26 - Saturday 29 March 2025
Winner of 2019 Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting and UK Theatre Awards. Tambo and Bones are stuck in a minstrel show. It's hard to know what's real when you're stuck in a minstrel show. Their escape plan: get out, get rich, get even. In thi...Animal Farm

Playhouse, Liverpool
Tuesday 1 - Saturday 5 April 2025
A powerful re-telling of George Orwell's chilling and timeless classic. When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master and take over, they imagine it is the beginning of a life of freedom and equality for all. However ove...Do I Love You?

Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Wednesday 2 - Saturday 5 April 2025
Why not join twenty somethings Sally, Nat and Kyle in this hilarious comedy written and directed by John Godber, the award-winning writer of "Bouncers", as they develop a love for, and the people involved with, Northern Soul. What started a...Third Class - A Titanic Story

Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Thursday 3 April 2025
A one-man theatre show based on the life of Titanic survivor, Edward Dorking. "The White Star Line merged itself out of existence. Those clever little educated boys." Edward was gay. Openly gay, and on Wednesday, April 10th, 1912, he set sa...Bi-Topia

Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Friday 4 April 2025
A "hilarious, honest and raw" exploration of an authentic Bisexual experience, taking inspiration from personal experiences and expanding to the wider LGBTQ+ narrative, BI-TOPIA sheds a very timely spotlight on the Bisexual experience and r...War Horse

Liverpool Empire Theatre, Liverpool
Tuesday 8 - Saturday 19 April 2025
The Global Phenomenon Returns. The National Theatre's acclaimed production returns in an all-new UK tour. War Horse is an unforgettable theatrical experience which takes audiences on an extraordinary journey from the fields of rural Devon ...Rita, Sue & Bob Too!

Liverpool Olympia, Liverpool
Wednesday 9 - Saturday 12 April 2025
St Helens' Regal Entertainments Ltd proudly presents the return of the record breaking Adults Only hilarious 1987 cult classic Rita, Sue & Bob Too!TV favourite Jake Quickenden heads the stellar cast as Bob in the production. Jake will be ...Queer Lady M

Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Thursday 10 - Friday 11 April 2025
It's time for Queer Lady M's cabaret! Performed by gender-fluid artist Shane Gabriel, Lady Macbeth comes to life like you've never experienced before! There's outrageous lip-syncing, cheeky dancing and sassy conversation as Queer Lady M in...Mushroom Language: A Fungal Gothic

Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Tuesday 15 - Wednesday 16 April 2025
In an eerie and funny homage to folk horror, two human performers absorb and mimic 'mushroom language' through ritual and power dynamics. Who are these creatures, and what are the mushrooms trying to tell them? Dreamlike conversations and m...Extremis

The Hope Street Theatre, Liverpool
Wednesday 16 - Saturday 19 April 2025
A new play by award-winning playwright Ian Moore. A world on the brink where human resilience collides with moral complexity, loyalty is tested, and the boundaries of courage blur. A gripping tale of survival, sacrifice, and the raw essence...Singin' I'm No A Billy, He's A Tim

Liverpool Olympia, Liverpool
Friday 18 April 2025
The 20th anniversary tour of the play exploring bigotry and ethnic identity. "Singin' I'm No a Billy, He's a Tim" is a phenomenon in Scotland where it has sold out countless nationwide tours, a sensation at the Edinburgh Festival and now t...The Meat Rack

Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Wednesday 23 April 2025
Gritty 1950's London... Alfie Connor, is a ruthless criminal gang boss who hides his true self behind a veneer of violence and power. George, a young male prostitute with dreams of escaping the streets, navigates the dangers of his world, w...The Trial of Agatha Christie

Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Friday 25 - Saturday 26 April 2025
"My name is Aphrodite the First, and tonight you are going to help me solve a mystery." Dame Agatha Christie is the best-selling novelist of all time. Famed for her murder-mystery novels, she was a pioneer in the world of crime fiction. ...Making It

Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool
Thursday 1 - Saturday 17 May 2025
Making It! began as a homegrown one woman show in 2018 called Our Bev's Christmas Cracker, winning a Liverpool Echo Theatre Award, and played to sell-out crowds. This time, writing duo Stephen Fletcher and Cath Rice have developed the show ...Remythed

Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Friday 2 - Saturday 3 May 2025
The debut show of Bet'n Lev Theatre, Remythed takes myths and legends, reshapes and retells them. Stories in ways you've never seen them before; full of insight, dreams and wisdom that'll leave you joyfully questioning every story you've e...A Beginners Guide to Widowhood

Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Tuesday 6 May 2025
A Beginner's Guide to Widowhood is a dark, but uplifting one-woman show exploring the experiences of young widows, loss, and why it's okay to talk about death. Suria has lost her husband (she hasn't misplaced him or anything - he's dead) J...The Girl on the Train

Playhouse, Liverpool
Tuesday 13 - Saturday 17 May 2025
Her only escape is the perfect couple she watches through the train window every day, happy and in love. Or so it appears. When Rachel learns that the woman she's been secretly watching has suddenly disappeared, she finds herself as a witne...North by Northwest

Playhouse, Liverpool
Tuesday 20 - Saturday 24 May 2025
Adapted and Directed by Emma Rice It would be strange, would it not, if, in a city of seven million people, one man were never mistaken for another... But that is exactly what happens to Roger Thornhill, reluctant hero of North by Northwest...Beating Berlusconi

The Dome at Grand Central Hall, Liverpool
Friday 23 - Saturday 24 May 2025
Cult comedy Beating Berlusconi! returns to the Liverpool stage to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Liverpool FC's Champions League triumph in Istanbul. The hilarious smash hit play by John Graham Davies is performed by Paul Duckworth and d...The Taming of The Shrew: The Experiment

Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Friday 23 May 2025
This Taming of the Shrew is a high octane comedy that punches in the gut. One of Shakespeare's most controversial works, "The Taming of the Shrew" sees an immovable object and an unstoppable force meet when fierce Katherine (labelled a veno...Carmilla

Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Wednesday 28 - Thursday 29 May 2025
Paying homage to it's 19th-century roots, Carmilla is a timeless reflection on the complexities of human emotion and the shadowy borders between life and death. A twilight world of gothic horror recieves a queer reimagining from Chalice Pri...Orton: Fallen Angel

Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Friday 30 - Saturday 31 May 2025
This new play from Grin Theatre Company, written by Wes Williams, re-imagines the turbulent relationship between the iconic gay writer Joe Orton and his partner Kenneth Halliwell. Based on true events and incidents the play explores thei...Only Fools and Horses The Musical

Liverpool Empire Theatre, Liverpool
Monday 9 - 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,...Quentin Crisp: Naked Hope

Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Friday 13 June 2025
Following his performance of Jarman, Mark Farrelly's hugely acclaimed solo play depicts Quentin Crisp at two phases of his extraordinary life: alone in his Chelsea flat in the 1960s, certain that life has passed him by, and thirty years ...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...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...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 ...2:22 A Ghost Story

Liverpool Empire Theatre, Liverpool
Monday 6 - Saturday 11 April 2026
Following seven West End seasons, a record-breaking UK and Ireland tour and twelve productions across the globe, the stage phenomenon 2:22 A Ghost Story now comes on a UK tour. Winner of BEST NEW PLAY at the WhatsOnStage Awards, this edge-o...To Kill a Mockingbird
