WHAT'S ON AT THE SHAKESPEARE NORTH PLAYHOUSE, PRESCOT
What's On at the Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Shakespeare North Playhouse is a stunning venue in the heart of Prescott, boasting a traditional 470 seat timber framed Shakespearean style theatre. It hosts vibrant new and premier performances, theatre, music, comedy, and workshops, with events and activities filling the venue across all its space, including the theatre, exhibition gallery, studio, and their Sir Ken Dodd performance garden.
Since Shakespeare North Playhouse opened its doors in 2022, it has been nominated and shortlisted for a staggering amount of awards, winning many! Honorary Patrons include Dame Judy Dench, Dame Vanessa Redgrave, and CBE Glenda Jackson
See what’s on at Shakespeare North Playhouse below and book tickets online.
Shakespeare North Playhouse is a stunning venue in the heart of Prescott, boasting a traditional 470 seat timber framed Shakespearean style theatre. It hosts vibrant new and premier performances, theatre, music, comedy, and workshops, with events and activities filling the venue across all its space, including the theatre, exhibition gallery, studio, and their Sir Ken Dodd performance garden.
Since Shakespeare North Playhouse opened its doors in 2022, it has been nominated and shortlisted for a staggering amount of awards, winning many! Honorary Patrons include Dame Judy Dench, Dame Vanessa Redgrave, and CBE Glenda Jackson
See what’s on at Shakespeare North Playhouse below and book tickets online.
Most Popular Shows and Events at Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
John Lydon - I Could Be Wrong, I Could Be Right
Shakespeare North Playhouse
Mon 26 - Wed 28 Oct 2026
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Shakespeare North Playhouse
Wed 7 - Sat 10 Oct 2026
What's On at the Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Twelfth Night
The Cockpit Theatre
Tuesday 21 - Friday 24 July 2026
"Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them!" Get in a fight. Cross-dress. Throw on some yellow stockings. Love can make you do the funniest things...! The critically-acclaimed Pantaloons Theatre ...Scratch
The Studio
Tuesday 21 July - Tuesday 22 September 2026
With networking and live jazz, Scratch is Shakespeare North Playhouse's quarterly platform for creatives to share, experiment, and connect. This is your chance to present work in progress or showcase completed pieces to a supportive audien...Reynard The Fox
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Wednesday 22 - Thursday 23 July 2026
Join The Fabularium as they tell the tale of Reynard the Fox, the woodland?s most infamous scoundrel who plays one too many tricks and finds himself answering to the King!The tale of Reynard the Fox follows the woodland?s most infamous sco...As You Like It
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Friday 24 July 2026
Pedalling from venue to venue with all of their set, props and costumes on the back of their bikes, the HandleBards are a four-strong troupe of actors who are spending the summer bringing environmentally sustainable Shakespeare to venues a...To Build or Not to Build
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Friday 24 July 2026
Brick-based, family fun!Join the Bards of Bricks to build your own stories from lego. Using your imagination, inspiration from Shakespeare and working together with others- you?ll create brave new worlds, design interesting characters and ...Shakespeare From Scratch (7-11s)
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Thursday 30 July 2026
Make a brand new play in just one day! Using Shakespeare?s themes, characters and stories, we?ll create a brand new piece of work from scratch. 7-11 Year-Olds: Thursday 30th July ? 11.00am ? 4.30pm.10-13 Year-Olds: Thursday 6th August ? 11...The Curfew
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Friday 31 July 2026
Paperwork Theatre returns to Shakespeare North Playhouse this summer with The Curfew- a bold, vibrant new production which invites women to reclaim the night. The Curfew imagines a world transformed by one simple rule; all men must be hom...Theatre Explorers
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Friday 31 July 2026
Come and explore our one-of-a-kind theatre in this interactive, family-friendly guided tour. With clues hidden across our performance and community spaces, Theatre Explorers is an opportunity to learn a bit about our links with Shakespeare...Wine Tasting Evening
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Friday 31 July - Friday 13 November 2026
"Good company, good wine, good welcome, can make good people." - Henry VIII, Act I, Scene IVIndulge in the perfect pairing: Wine Tasting at Shakespeare North Playhouse!Raise your glass and immerse yourself in a world of flavours, as we sam...Tosca
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Saturday 1 August 2026
Puccini?s Tosca comes to the Ken Dodd Theatre, Knowsley: a gripping tale of love, power and sacrifice, reimagined in a dystopian future where tyranny and defiance collide....Love's Labour's Lost (more or less)
The Cockpit Theatre
Thursday 6 - Saturday 8 August 2026
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 ma...Shakespeare From Scratch (10-13s)
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Thursday 6 August 2026
Make a brand new play in just one day! Using Shakespeare?s themes, characters and stories, we?ll create a brand new piece of work from scratch. 7-11 Year-Olds: Thursday 30th July ? 11.00am ? 4.30pm.10-13 Year-Olds: Thursday 6th August ? 11...Summer of Love: Love's Labour's Lost
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Thursday 6 - Saturday 8 August 2026
When a king meets a princess, keeps his kingdom but loses his heart ? but he, and his friends are all courting some very witty, wily ladies? Will they all labour in vain for love?Shake-Scene are bringing their distinctive cue-based perform...Boaty Theatre Company - Much Ado About Nothing
Sir Ken Dodd Performance Garden
Friday 7 - Saturday 8 August 2026
It's Much Ado About Nothing with something urgent to say-and no intention of asking permission. Featuring a cast of emerging LGBTQ+ and Northern talent, this timely production from Ellesmere Port's Boaty Theatre Company reclaims space, vo...Summer of Love: Much Ado About Nothing
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Friday 7 - Saturday 8 August 2026
Warring lovers, lovers at war, revenge and reconciliation ? Much Ado brings a war of words (& a happy ending) this August. Shake-Scene are bringing their distinctive cue-based performance back to Shakespeare North ? let the love & chaos co...Brew With The Bard - Actors' Workshop
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Saturday 8 August 2026
Brew with the Bard is a practical workshop, followed by a public sharing of selected Shakespeare scenes and a networking event. Are you a professional actor based in the North West?Are you in between jobs and looking for an answer to the d...Brew With The Bard - Sharing
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Saturday 8 August 2026
Join us in the bar for a Brew with the Bard!Tiring House Productions brings together a group of local professional actors and works with them to rehearse a selection of scenes from Shakespeare?s works ? only the best bits!If you want to:? ...Mama Sood's Supper Club
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Thursday 13 August - Thursday 19 November 2026
Mama Sood's Supper Club returnsNeetu Sood ? Mama ? has been cooking for fifty years. She came to Liverpool from Delhi in 1992 and has been feeding people here ever since. After the sell-out earlier this year, she?s back at Shakespeare Nort...The (Almost) Complete History of Britain
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Friday 14 - Saturday 15 August 2026
Mud, blood and stiff upper-lips!Join the critically-acclaimed Pantaloons Theatre Company on a breathless race through the centuries in this delightfully inventive show that tells the entire story of Britain in under 2 hours. Have you ever ...Pipes & Poo
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Wednesday 19 August 2026
Have you ever wondered what happens to a poo after you flush it down the loo? We have!Join us for a delightfully disgusting interactive game-show exploring the extraordinary world of water, pipes, and poo. Can you help Bubbles win the gold...Glamazon Prime
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Saturday 22 August 2026
Your new favourite musical is out for delivery?Have you ever found yourself watching your favourite movie, wishing it had more women and more songs? Well, you?re in luck. This all-fem dream-team are bringing you just what you ordered. Sele...Potty Plants with Edward Lear and FOSS his Curious Cat
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Saturday 22 August 2026
Did you know that some of the world?s most famous nonsense poems were written in Prescot at Knowsley Hall?Step into the absurd world of Edward Lear, the master of nonsense verse and author of?The Owl and the Pussycat. His faithful, grumpy,...The Rogue Shakespeare Experience
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Saturday 22 August 2026
EVER WANTED TO KNOW ? HOW TO BE A POET?Based loosely on his new podcast, where Smith writes sonnets on the spot for his guests, this brand new audience-interactive live show, starring OFFIE Award-winning poet-playwright, Ryan J-W Smith (ak...A Midsummer Night's Dream
The Cockpit Theatre
Thursday 27 August 2026
Love, laughter, and a little bit of lunacy - enter a world where fairies meddle, lovers quarrel, and magic runs wild! This summer, join us for a breathtaking open-air performance of William Shakespeare's beloved comedy, A Midsummer Night's...An Audience with Ellis Howard and Chloe English
The Cockpit Theatre
Friday 28 August 2026
Liverpool best friends Ellis Howard and Chloe English discuss their remarkable journey from working-class Liverpool to the forefront of British television. Ellis Howard and Chloe English represent one of Liverpool's most inspiring creative...Macbeth
The Cockpit Theatre
Friday 11 September - Saturday 3 October 2026
What would you destroy to get what you want? A dagger. A crown. The original text. One musician. Ten storytellers. Fifty candles. Ninety breathless minutes. Step into the shadows. Let the scorpions in your mind strike. Watch a world turn i...The Story of Edith Smith by Pauline Fleming
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Friday 18 September 2026
Edith Smith, born in Oxton, was Britain?s first female police constable given the powers of arrest. Serving in Grantham during WWI, she redefined women?s roles in policing and community care. She is laid to rest in Runcorn....Alex Stringer: Happy Hour
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Friday 2 October 2026
Come and spend a happy hour. The debut fringe hour from Chortle Hotshot 2025, Alex Stringer. Alex got sober in 2017 when she was 23. This is a show about what it?s like once you get sober, discovering who you really are without substances,...The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Cockpit Theatre
Wednesday 7 - Saturday 10 October 2026
This bold new adaptation of the classic novel celebrates Oscar Wilde's dazzling wit and dark imagination. Stylish and unsettlingly thrilling, The Picture of Dorian Gray plunges you into a world where charm is currency and the truth always ...Screening: Walking For Wellbeing: Around Morecambe Bay with William Wordsworth
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Friday 9 October 2026
FREE screening. On the eve of World Mental Health Day, join us for a free film screening that showcases the physical and emotional benefits of walking in nature.?How bountiful is Nature! ? Quit your couch,? urged William Wordsworth in The ...Haunted Shadows: The Gothic Tales of Edith Nesbit
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Saturday 10 October 2026
?Sometimes our nighttime imaginings merely hint at the real horrors??An expert at chilling the spine and curdling the blood, Edith Nesbit relates three of her best Gothic tales while recalling her own childhood terrors. In The Shadow, a re...The Hammer & Helena
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Thursday 15 - Friday 16 October 2026
The Hammer and Helena is the true story of the most evil book ever written and its horrifying legacy. Helena Scheuberin finds herself the unwitting muse of a religious zealot ? the self-proclaimed Hammer of Witches. Her witch trial would r...Off Grid
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Saturday 17 October 2026
Imagine being dragged into a wild camping trip with your politically outspoken uncle out of social awkwardness. No technology allowed. Just beer, fishing?rods?and jerky.?A new comedy?show?by Sam Danson, looking at the painful reality of be...John Lydon - I Could Be Wrong, I Could Be Right
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Monday 26 - Wednesday 28 October 2026
He's a legend and an icon, a revolutionary and an immortal. John Lydon - aka Johnny Rotten - changed the face of music and sparked a cultural revolution. The frontman and lyricist of the Sex Pistols and Public Image Ltd (PiL) caused a pol...What Wood Victoria Do
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Friday 30 October 2026
How on earth have we all survived the past decade of modern living without Victoria Wood's observational wit and wisdom?What would she make of an Air Fryer? The Repair Shop? K-Pop Demon Hunters?Paulus The Cabaret Geek is on hand to help us...The Children's Bookshow with Frank Cottrell-Boyce
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Tuesday 3 - Wednesday 4 November 2026
The Children?s Bookshow is delighted to present the current Children's Laureate and champion of children's books, author Frank Cottrell-Boyce. Join Frank on a hilarious adventure to Hollywood as he talks about his latest book, the laugh-ou...Christmas Carol
The Cockpit Theatre
Friday 20 November - Thursday 31 December 2026
Festive lights twinkle outside 'The Counting House 'pub but inside Manager Bob Cratchit is struggling to keep the spirit of Christmas alive as Landlord Scrooge does all he can to squash it - no music, no laughter and definitely no bar cred...Selected Works: Table Top Shakespeare
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Thursday 26 - Saturday 28 November 2026
A salt and pepper pot for the king and queen. A ruler for the prince. A spoon for the servant. A water bottle for the messenger. Two performers create condensed versions of some of Shakespeare?s most iconic plays, creating lovingly made mi...Ghost Stories For Christmas
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Tuesday 1 - Thursday 3 December 2026
In its anniversary year, Ghost Stories of Christmas past meet chilling tales of Christmas present. The show that revived a time-honoured tradition, according to the New York Times....A Very Messy Christmas
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Tuesday 8 - Saturday 19 December 2026
Eve loves calm, tidy, quiet... but Christmas is the opposite!When a mysterious box arrives, festive chaos escapes?but it may be exactly what she needs. With clowning, music and magic, this interactive sensory show is perfect for your littl...Tinsel
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Tuesday 22 - Thursday 31 December 2026
Tinsel is the tale of one magical little boy who dreams of being the fairy on top of the Christmas tree!He can sing, dance, and wear a sparkly tiara as well as anyone else can. But to get to the top, he?ll have to convince a whole tree of ...Ruby Wax
Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Thursday 25 - Friday 26 March 2027
It's almost easier to say whom Ruby Wax DIDN'T meet, interview and coax fascinating insights from in her huge TV shows 'Ruby Wax Meets' and 'Full Wax'. Donald Trump, OJ Simpson, Pamala Anderson, Madonna and many more. Her provocative, abra...Bruce Watson (Big Country)
The Cockpit Theatre
Friday 21 May 2027
In A Big Country, an evening with Big Country's Bruce Watson. Big Country founder and guitarist, Bruce Watson, dominated the charts in the 1980s and has never looked back. Alongside singer Stuart Adamson, Watson and co enjoyed hits on both...How to get to the Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
Shakespeare North Playhouse Frequently Asked Questions
Prospero Place, Prescott, L34 3AB
There are many car parks close to Shakespeare North Playhouse. The closest are Mill Street Car Park and NCP Prescot Deanes House
There is a limited number of accessible parking spaces (use postcode L34 3AB for your sat nav, and follow the signs for Blue Badge parking.)
The nearest train station to Shakespeare North Playhouse is Prescot Station, which is approximately a 12 minute walk.
There are regular trains to Prescot Station from Liverpool, with a journey time of around 20 minutes, and from Manchester, with a journey time of around 1hr 20 mins, with a change at Wigan or Huyton.
Shakespeare North Playhouse has a capacity of 470 seats. Please be aware that the Cockpit Theatre is a replica of the Globe theatre built in 1629, so seats are benches with cushions, some of which have backs.
Take a look at a virtual reality version of the Cockpit Theatre
Please contact Shakespeare North Playhouse directly and their team will be able to help you.
If you would like to buy a ticket in person from Shakespeare North Playhouse box office, they open:
Tueday – Saturday 11am–5pm (11pm on show days)
The Playhouse is closed, Sunday & Monday unless there is a show on.
Alternatively, you can see what's on and book online here.
You can contact Shakespeare North Playhouse directly and they will be able to advise you.
When we know of a duration of a show, we add it to the description of the show on our event pages. For example, on our Wicked event page, after the description of the show we have added the duration of the show in large capital letters. If the time isn't listed, we do not have the information yet. We update our pages daily so it maybe a case of knowing closer to the performance itself, so keep checking.
For more information on accessibility at Shakespeare North Playhouse, you can visit their accessibility page.
Alternatively, please click here for more contact information and The Playhouse's access team will be able to answer your questions.
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The Shakespeare North Bar & Kitchen is open Tuesday - Saturday from 11am.
There are also plenty of great places to eat in Liverpool and decent pre-theatre menus, you should check out our Liverpool Restaurant site here!
Shakespeare North Playhouse have the Shakespeare North Bar & Kitchen attached to the venue, plus two more bars in the their venue.
Liverpool is also full of great bars and pubs and some decent ones close to the venue. check out our Liverpool Bar site here!
Either use the map at the side of the FAQ section as it has all types of accomodation or click here for hotels in Prescot
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Most Popular Shows and Events at Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot
John Lydon - I Could Be Wrong, I Could Be Right
Shakespeare North Playhouse
Mon 26 - Wed 28 Oct 2026
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Shakespeare North Playhouse
Wed 7 - Sat 10 Oct 2026
