Venue Hire
Set the stage for stunning events...
The ideal venue for conferences, awards ceremonies, away days, team meetings and workshops. Here at the Playhouse, we’re perfectly placed for networking, entertaining clients, family socials and special celebrations.
Talk to us about your event ideas. Book a walk-around with our events team to turn them into reality. We’ll suggest the best combination of spaces to make it great.
Our spaces and food and drinks packages can all be tailored to meet your needs.
We’ve got:
- Flexible spaces available for exclusive hire, configured, linked or divided to meet your needs
- Great food and drinks packages
- Space for live entertainment, bands and DJs
- Bars on two floors, mobile bar carts and a late license
- Skilled in-house teams to ensure your lighting and sound is spot on
Corporate clients: Join our Business Circle for exclusive venue hire rates and ticket discounts – perfect for entertaining clients and rewarding your teams.
You can also hire our spaces for wedding celebrations and filming and location projects.
Explore Our Venue Hire Options
Looking to host your next event? Discover our versatile spaces and tailored services. For more information, view our Venue Hire Brochure.
View The BrochureI thought the venue and room were great! Everyone was really friendly and helpful. The biggest win for me though was the food – the vegetarian / vegan options were genuinely the best I’ve had for a while. It was so nice to have so many options. (Alfred H Knight)
Meet in the middle
Bring your team together with everything covered in a single simple booking, at a special package price.
All details hereat a glance
The Cockpit Theatre
Our breathtaking centrepiece. Great for conferences, performances, product launches, live recordings, awards and presentations with wow factor.
Whether your style’s fully scripted, or more improv, hosting in this unique location will ensure your event is truly unforgettable.
The Gallery
Limitless possibilities. Maximum impact. Use this space, with its huge media wall built-in video projection to go big on presenting or to add a dynamic graphic backdrop to your events and celebrations.
Why not… link together with our other ground floor spaces for a dazzling party night, launch event or exhibition private view.
Bar & Kitchen
Take over our ground floor Bar & Kitchen for eating and drinking, with plenty of space to mingle and socialise.
Need more spill-out space? Link with our other areas. Turn the Gallery into your disco, or add the Sir Ken Dodd Performance Garden for an al fresco option.
The Sir Ken Dodd Performance Garden
Relaxed in-situ tiered seating for up to 120 people. Use the spacious open floor area and go centre-stage for speechmaking, transform it into a dance floor or set a table for sensational outdoor private dining. Add our other ground floor spaces into the mix for a single level, multi-area, indoor-outdoor celebration space for 250 guests.
Meeting Rooms
Sometimes you just need some space. Set your schedule to ‘working elsewhere’ and book one of our rooms for team get-togethers, strategy and action planning sessions or off-site interviews. Perfect for up to 20 people. Book three or more dates to unlock a discount.
The First Floor
Perfect in equal measure for drinks receptions, networking business buffets, awards, celebrations and formal dining events, our light-filled long room is an endlessly adaptable space.
private bar | balcony access for taking the air | expansive views over historic Prescot
The Hub and Foyer
Take advantage of our lofty light-filled space. Split off, then get back together in this in this versatile space, which can be sub-divided to make up to three areas.
Add the connecting foyer for a larger single space or sub-divide for break-out, refreshment or workshop use and post-meeting networking and receptions.
The Studio
With large-scale video projection, superb sound and the option of tiered seating, the studio is super-flexible. Presentations, dinners, dancing and celebrations all sit happily within this space.
Full venue
Got something important to say? Gathering lots of people together? Choose exclusive use of all our spaces for the ultimate whole venue takeover.
Be bold, be brave. Make our Shakespeare North Playhouse all yours.
We were delighted with our recent Franchisee/Supplier engagement day. Shakespeare North Playhouse is a unique venue; all our attendees commented on the great ‘feel’ of the spaces used. The team could not have been more helpful, and we were really impressed with their support and accommodating attitude. I also have to comment on the food, which was of excellent quality. (IPC EMEA )
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Planning a wedding or reception? Take a look at our wedding packages and special celebration catering menus.
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Could we be your perfect backdrop? We have a great variety of spaces, including our rooftop, above-stage and service areas: all of these are available for location filming or photography.
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