WHAT'S ON AT THE PLAYHOUSE, LIVERPOOL
What's On at the Playhouse, Liverpool
Most Popular Shows and Events at Playhouse, Liverpool
Thu 26 Dec 2024 - Thu 25 Dec 2025
What's On at the Playhouse, Liverpool
The Rocky Horror Show
Thursday 26 December 2024 - Thursday 25 December 2025
Hits Radio host Leanne Campbell takes on the role of the Narrator in Richard O'Brien's legendary rock 'n' roll musical, The Rocky Horror Show. Having been seen by over 35 million theatregoers, The Rocky Horror Show is the story of two squ...
Fem de la Femme
Thursday 26 - Friday 27 December 2024
Want to belly laugh with some amazingly funny women?Downstairs at the Everyman is pleased as punch to welcome?Fem De La Femme?on the fourth Thursday of every month. This seriously funny comedy night is packed with some of the finest women c...
We Call it Ballet - Sleeping Beauty in a Dazzling Light Show
Saturday 18 January - Friday 14 February 2025
Experience Sleeping Beauty like never before in this dazzling dance and light show. Classical ballet and modern technology come together to create an artistic masterpiece like no other, where exquisite dancers literally light up the stage w...
Mark Thomas
Thursday 23 January 2025
Jokes, rants, politics, play and the occasional sing song. If you don't know what he does ask your parents. In his time he has won awards (current total is now officially 'fuckloads'), forced a politician to resign, changed laws on tax and ...
Nina Conti
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Saturday 25 January 2025
The virtuoso ventriloquist, BAFTA nominee and British Comedy Award winner is back on tour with a new show, Whose Face is it Anyway? London-born Nina Conti (and Monkey) has regularly sold out shows all over the world with her widely acclaim...
The Merchant of Venice (1936)
Tuesday 4 - Saturday 8 February 2025
'THE PERFECT EXAMPLE OF HOW TO DO SHAKESPEARE' (Metro) Ambition, power and political unrest explode onto the stage in The Merchant of Venice 1936, direct from selling out the RSC and London's West End. Starring Tracy-Ann Oberman (EastEnders...
John Shuttleworth
Tuesday 11 February 2025
Radio 4 favourite, comedy legend, and 'the 42nd best reason to love Britain' (The Telegraph) John Shuttleworth, is back with more hilarious stories and songs performed on his trusty Yamaha organ (with built-in auto accompaniment!) In RAISE ...
Adam Kay
Wednesday 12 February 2025
The nation's twelfth-favourite doctor returns, fresh from a record-breaking sell out run at the Edinburgh Fringe. This is Going to Hurt was a literary sensation, selling three million copies and becoming a multi-BAFTA-winning BBC series....
The Baddies
Tuesday 18 - Saturday 22 February 2025
Based on the book by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler and presented by Freckle Productions & The Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh. Meet the very worst Baddies in the world! Don't you dare to come too close to a witch, a troll and an ancient...
Lou Sanders
Saturday 1 March 2025
The queen of surreal stand-up returns to UK stages with her 'No Kissing In The Bingo Hall' 2025 UK Tour. It's a show about being human - can you relate??? Just like Tom Cruise does all his own stunts, I'm going to do all my own jokes! A de...
An Evening with Si King
Wednesday 5 March 2025
Take a trip down memory lane with national treasure Si King and get to know the man behind the bike like never before. Si invites you to an evening of memories, music, and laughs where he will pull back the curtain on the moments that made ...
Deirdre O'Kane
Saturday 8 March 2025
Comedic fireball Deirdre O'Kane is mad for road, mercilessly mining hilarity from the human condition. Will she conquer the chaos or revel in it? Tame the mayhem or "O'Kane it"? Either way you're in for a night of relentless laughs fuelled ...
Ghost Stories
Tuesday 11 - Saturday 15 March 2025
????"An immaculately crafted evening of entertainment"Time OutThe long-running West End hit returns to Liverpool PlayhouseWhen Professor Goodman, arch-sceptic out to debunk the paranormal, embarks on an investigation of three apparent haunt...
Pig Heart Boy
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...
Tambo and Bones
Wednesday 26 - Saturday 29 March 2025
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 this exhilarating, funny and provocative satire, Tambo and Bones journey fr...
Animal Farm
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, ov...
The Gruffalo
Tuesday 8 - Saturday 12 April 2025
A mouse took a stroll through the deep dark wood... Join Mouse on a daring adventure through the deep, dark wood in Tall Stories' magical, musical adaptation of the classic picture book by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler. Searching for h...
Richard Herring
Thursday 17 April 2025
In 2021 Richard Herring went to his GP to find out why his right ball seemed to be growing bigger. It turned out that he had testicular cancer and one month later he was lying in hospital waiting to have his murderous gonad removed. Would h...
Nigel Havers
Saturday 26 April 2025
"Well, here it is - my first ever solo show. Just me, a stage, and a lifetime of gloriously ridiculous stories to share. You'll get the full Havers experience: charm, wit, and absolutely no running in slow motion. I'll be taking you on a th...
Ellie Taylor
Saturday 10 May 2025
Star of Ted Lasso, Live at the Apollo and The Mash Report, as well as host of Bake Off The Professionals, comedian, presenter and actor Ellie Taylor is back with a new stand up show! The viral sensation whose sketch declaring that "Women ha...
The Girl on the Train
Tuesday 13 - Saturday 17 May 2025
Rachel Watson longs for a different life. 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...
North by Northwest
Tuesday 20 - Saturday 24 May 2025
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, when a mistimed phone call to hi...
Pirates Love Underpants
Wednesday 28 - Saturday 31 May 2025
Based on the beloved book by Claire Freedman and Ben CortThese?pirates?SO love underpants!Join our swashbuckling party of?pirates?on their quest to find the fabled Pants of Gold for the Captain's Treasure chest!Dodge hungry crocs beneath Lo...
Jenny Eclair
Saturday 7 June 2025
In celebration of the release of her hilarious memoir of the same name, comedian, novelist, and professional show-off Jenny Eclair comes to venues nationwide with a brand-new autobiographical show, Jokes Jokes Jokes Live! From drama school,...
Suzi Ruffell
Saturday 13 September 2025
It's hard to be good all the time. A good mother, a good daughter, a good partner, a good friend, a good person. To be ambitious but not ruthless; a success but not a sell-out. A gentle parent but not a pushover. To be smashing life and ...
Matthew Bourne's The Midnight Bell
Tuesday 16 - Saturday 20 September 2025
Matthew Bourne's award-winning The Midnight Bell comes to Salford for the first time in 2025. In 1930s London ordinary people emerge from cheap boarding houses nightly to pour out their passions, hopes and dreams in the pubs and fog-bound s...
Something About George - The George Harrison Story
Thursday 9 - Friday 10 October 2025
Something About George - The George Harrison Story is a musical biopic tribute about the so-called "quiet" Beatle, and is back following it's hugely successful 2023 tour which celebrated what would have been George's 80th birthday. Starring...
Breaking the Code
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 ...
Sam Avery
Friday 21 November 2025
A comedy show for mums and dads, How Not To Be a Terrible Parent is the hilarious new stand-up show from award-winning comedian and best-selling author Sam Avery. You're a good parent, right? You love your kids. They're everything ...
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Most Popular Shows and Events at Playhouse, Liverpool
Thu 26 Dec 2024 - Thu 25 Dec 2025
