Everyman & Playhouse: 2025/26 Theatre Season

Kristy Stott, Theatre Editor

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Everyman and Playhouse: 2025/26 Theatre Season

13 September 2025-31 March 2026

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Lost Atoms at Liverpool Everyman: A broken mirror distorting the faces of a man and woman
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Liverpool’s Everyman & Playhouse 2025/26 Theatre Season is shaping up to be a vibrant, varied and unmissable line-up. Expect fresh takes on classic texts, powerful new writing and a monstrously fabulous festive treat when the Playhouse hosts its Christmas show. Once again, audiences can look forward to world-class touring productions sitting proudly alongside homegrown talent on the city’s stages. So grab the opportunity to see some of the very best theatre and performance happening in the North.

Opening the season at the Everyman, Romeo & Juliet promises a striking new perspective on Shakespeare’s most famous love story. Directed by Ellie Hurt and starring Zoe West and Alicia Forde in the title roles, this stripped-back version features a live soundscape from Dom Coyote, allowing the play’s timeless themes of love, loss and fate to speak directly to a modern audience.

Over at the Playhouse, Lost Atoms promises a hauntingly beautiful blend of movement, poetry and music. Co-created by Frantic Assembly’s Artistic Director Scott Graham and award-winning playwright Anna Jordan, it explores grief, memory and the invisible threads that connect us all. Striking visuals, a live score and Frantic Assembly’s signature physicality combine to create an unforgettable piece of contemporary theatre.

Later in the autumn, Hugh Whitemore’s Breaking the Code brings the extraordinary story of mathematician and wartime codebreaker Alan Turing to the Playhouse stage. Moving between the high-pressure world of Bletchley Park and post-war Manchester, it’s both a portrait of a genius and a powerful reflection on the laws that destroyed him. This new production ends with a specially written epilogue by Neil Bartlett, reflecting on Turing’s pardon and legacy.

Christmas brings a delightfully offbeat festive treat as Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein arrives in Liverpool on its UK tour. Packed with riotous comedy, toe-tapping tunes and a touch of spooky silliness, it’s a sparkling showstopper that’s perfect for comedy lovers and families with older kids.

And finally, Samuel Beckett’s influential masterpiece – Waiting for Godot – plays Liverpool Everyman in spring 2026, darkly comic, profoundly moving, and the perfect finale to an extraordinary season.

Where to go near Everyman & Playhouse: 2025/26 Theatre Season

Manchester
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Maki & Ramen

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Restaurant Orme
Manchester
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Restaurant Örme

A hidden gem in the suburbs of Greater Manchester, serving high-level British small plates to a soundtrack of indie rock and roll.

The Abbey
Manchester
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The Abbey

Historic Hulme pub with a very good live gig space, brought to you by the very capable team behind YES, Gorilla, Now Wave and Manchester Psych Fest.

Manchester
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Pigeon Beer Wanderer

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Castlefield
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UNITOM Projects

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Portfolio

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at Bridge 5 Mill

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1853 Studios

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Deansgate
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Podium

Podium delivers high-end, seasonal dishes, largely geared around produce and ideas from the British Isles, but with a few deft twists and turns.

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Jen Heyes and Kit Green breathe thrilling new life into Virginia Woolf’s modernist classic with an inventive theatrical reimagining.

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