DRAMA PLAYS IN LIVERPOOL
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
Willy Russell's Shirley Valentine
Everyman Theatre
Tue 25 - Sat 29 Mar 2025
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 ...Red Or Dead
Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool
Tuesday 25 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...Willy Russell's Shirley Valentine
Everyman Theatre, Liverpool
Tuesday 25 - 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 ...Tambo & 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...Imaginary Friends
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Thursday 27 March 2025
Welcome to the warped mirror world of Imaginary Friends, the new solo show by award-winning writer-performer Daniel Bye, exploring everything from grief, morality and the end of the world, to authenticity in the contemporary media landscape...Mia and the Fish
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Friday 28 - Saturday 29 March 2025
A modern retelling by Satinder Chohan of the ancient myth Manu and the Fish, produced by National Theatre Connections partnership. Mia is a young refugee girl who along with her sister is washed up onto the shores of the UK. Against the b...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...This is Not my Beautiful House
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Thursday 8 - Friday 9 May 2025
A story of myth, legend and identity, This Is Not My Beautiful House is a one-person play in the Irish language, with English surtitles. Suitable for anyone interested in queer identity, Irish history, or theatre generally, the show revolv...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...The Gentleman of Shalott
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Tuesday 3 - Wednesday 4 June 2025
The Gentleman of Shalott is a queer adaptation of Tennyson's poem The Lady of Shalott, influenced by Theatre of the Absurd, exploring isolation; social media-induced anxiety; neurodiversity and our unwillingness to confront the climate cris...Terminal 2
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Friday 6 - Saturday 7 June 2025
With their plane delayed due to a power cut, George and Lynda Sumner debate the meaning of life, the common bluebottle, sex tapes and the pros and cons of WH Smith... but it soon becomes clear that Lynda's journey is one way and that George...
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,...A Concord of Sweet Sounds
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Friday 13 June 2025
An evening of magnificent music inspired by the words of Shakespeare. 'Atticus Arts' has put together a wonderful show of Classical Music and theatre from renowned composers including Beach, Dring, Gounod, Purcell and Quilter exploring stor...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 ...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: ...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...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...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...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...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 ...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...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
Liverpool Empire Theatre, Liverpool
Tuesday 12 - Saturday 16 May 2026
The powerful and enduring coming-of-age story of racial injustice and childhood innocence is set in 1930s Alabama where lawyer Atticus Finch tries to prove the innocence of Tom Robinson, a Black man wrongly accused of raping a white woman. ...
