What’s On What’s On Summer ’25 What’s On Access How to Book Newly on sale Cockpit Theatre The Studio Heading North Fringe Festival Family Theatre Sir Ken Dodd Performance Garden Guided Tours Regular Events & Workshops Fri 3 Oct, 2025 - Sat 25 Oct, 2025 The Tempest Find out more Filter Events Month June 25 July 25 August 25 September 25 October 25 November 25 December 25 May 26 Type Comedy Community Drama Family Guided Tours Music Shakespeare Clear filters Access Fri 20 June – Sat 1 November Shakespeare North Playhouse Shakespeare North Playhouse: A Guided Tour Shakespeare North Playhouse: A Guided Tour A deep dive into our heritage with a guided tour around the venue, ask all your questions and see behind the scenes Find out more Heading North Fringe Festival Fri 20 June Get Giddier Shaun Guff: Enuff is Enuff Shaun Guff: Enuff is Enuff Trust in Guff and you are GUARANTEED (100%) to enjoy, not only the show, but the rest of your life. 💪 Join Clementine Bogg-Hargroves (Guff) with her 'Yorkshire-based robustness and sunny charm'. Find out more Fri 20 June Down in Laurel Canyon Down in Laurel Canyon Find out more Wednesdays & Saturdays Sat 21 June – Sat 20 December Shakespeare North Playhouse Chatty Café Chatty Café A regular space for people to talk whether it’s for five minutes while you have a brew, or an hour of good conversation. Find out more Sat 21 June Classic Double Band Pink Floyd and Radiohead: The Classic Double Band Pink Floyd and Radiohead: The Classic Double Band The cerebral yet visceral Radiohead and the epic and soulful Pink Floyd. See the Classic Double Band play them with the heart and brilliance they deserve! Find out more Every Tuesdays Tue 24 June – Tue 23 December Shakespeare North Playhouse Baby Bards Baby Bards Introducing story, letters and phonics through readings and fun activities, your babies will be Bards in no time Find out more Workshop Tue 24 June Shakespeare North Playhouse Drawing Course Drawing Course Hone your skills with our drawing course! Find out more Tue 24 June – Tue 14 October Shakespeare North Playhouse Scratch Scratch An inclusive, welcoming community space for both performers and audience alike. Find out more Wed 25 June Prescot Festival of Music and the Arts Afternoon Opera: Solos & Soliloquies Afternoon Opera: Solos & Soliloquies Exquisite Shakespearean opera and poetry by soprano Laura Hudson Find out more Wed 25 June Em Parr Projects Two Steps Back Two Steps Back She was not of an ice-breaking, team-playing, shot-drinking disposition. Hiding in her room eating dry bran flakes, she now begins to wonder… Why has she moved away to university? Find out more Wed 25 – Sat 28 June The Highwayman The Highwayman Godber’s Highwayman is visceral, venal and very funny. History has never felt so modern, theft never more attractive. Find out more Fri 27 June – Wed 30 July Shakespeare North Playhouse Shakespeare and Love Shakespeare and Love Discover love through the eyes of Shakespeare! Find out more Fri 27 – Sat 28 June Oddsocks Productions A Midsummer Night’s Dream A Midsummer Night’s Dream Oddsocks take to the road again with a high-energy A Midsummer Night's Dream! Find out more Heading North Fringe Festival Fri 27 – Sat 28 June Francesca Di Cesare Same Same James and Lewis are best mates. Bonded by the missing pieces of their upbringing, they have become each other’s support. Together they have helped each other deal with every day struggles and heartbreaking loss. But when a letter is found and a decades-old truth is exposed, that bond is tested. Can the brotherhood they have created, the family they chose, survive? Find out more Workshop Sat 28 June – Sat 29 November Shakespeare North Playhouse Shakespeare North: Life Drawing Shakespeare North: Life Drawing Join us for monthly life drawing sessions in spaces across the venue. The sessions are suitable for beginners as well as more experienced artists Find out more Load more