Things to do in Prescot

📅Fri 10 Jul·19:30

Ricky Tomlinson - Retirement Tour My Ar*e!!

Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot

The (Almost) Complete History of Britain

The (Almost) Complete History of Britain

Mud, blood and stiff upper-lips!Join the critically-acclaimed Pantaloons Theatre Company on a breathless race through the centuries in this delightfully inventi…

Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot

The (Almost) Complete History of Britain

Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot

Haunted Shadows: The Gothic Tales of Edith Nesbit

Haunted Shadows: The Gothic Tales of Edith Nesbit

“Sometimes our night time imaginings merely hint at the real horrors…”An expert at chilling the spine and curdling the blood, Edith Nesbit relates three of her…

Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot

Haunted Shadows: The Gothic Tales of Edith Nesbit

Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot

📅Fri 30 Oct19:30

What Wood Victoria Do?

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?

Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot

From £18

📅Fri 30 Oct·19:30

What Wood Victoria Do?

Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot

From £18

📅Tue 22 Dec12:30

Tinsel

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…

Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot

📅Tue 22 Dec·12:30

Tinsel

Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot

📅Wed 17 Jun19:30

The Comedy of Errors

Comedy, chaos, quick changes and confusion. The Festival Players are back bringing farce, fast paced story telling and original music to William Shakespeare’s T…

Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot

📅Wed 17 Jun·19:30

The Comedy of Errors

Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot

📅Thu 18 Jun19:00

Lambslaughter

A searing, unsettling exploration of girlhood, power, and survival at the dawn of the smartphone age.Set in a Catholic girls’ school in Merseyside in 2013, the…

Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot

📅Thu 18 Jun·19:00

Lambslaughter

Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot

📅Thu 18 Jun14:00

Hamlet

Step into the world of Hamlet, Shakespeare’s masterpiece of revenge, betrayal, and ambition.Now in a brand-new 70-minute outdoor version from multi award winnin…

Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot

📅Thu 18 Jun·14:00

Hamlet

Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot

📅Fri 19 Jun19:00

Opening Night: Brass Spectacular

Making their Festival debut, the magnificent Clock Face Miners Heritage Brass Band open our 22nd Festival in style.

Prescot Parish Church, Prescot

📅Fri 19 Jun·19:00

Opening Night: Brass Spectacular

Prescot Parish Church, Prescot

📅Sat 20 Jun19:00

Choral Celebration

Aglorious performance of Magnificat by John Rutter, celebrating his 80th birthday year, sung by the 100-strong Prescot Festival Chorus.

Prescot Parish Church, Prescot

📅Sat 20 Jun·19:00

Choral Celebration

Prescot Parish Church, Prescot

📅Sun 21 Jun15:00

Richard Lea: Organ Recital

An hour of dazzling popular, classical and sacred favourites from Richard Lea of Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral.

Prescot Parish Church, Prescot

📅Sun 21 Jun·15:00

Richard Lea: Organ Recital

Prescot Parish Church, Prescot

📅Tue 23 Jun19:00

Out The Woodwork

Think Brookside meets The League Of Gentlemen.Gingerlee Does It presents its latest ingenious production, Out The Woodwork.Following his five-star dystopian sat…

Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot

📅Tue 23 Jun·19:00

Out The Woodwork

Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot

📅Wed 24 Jun15:30

Afternoon Opera: Classic Arias

Join us for a glorious celebration of some of opera’s most beloved music at Afternoon Opera: Classic Arias, a captivating 60-minute recital and part of the 22nd…

Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot

📅Wed 24 Jun·15:30

Afternoon Opera: Classic Arias

Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot

💃💃 Dance

📅Thu 25 Jun19:00

Barn Dance

Whether you love to dance or prefer to sit, listen and watch, you're invited to join four-piece band Two Left Feet for a traditional family barn dance, with cal…

St Paul's Church, Prescot

💃 Dance

📅Thu 25 Jun·19:00

Barn Dance

St Paul's Church, Prescot

📅Fri 26 Jun18:30

Romeo and Juliet

A family fued divides the community! Violence stalks the streets. Who can see beyond the hate and dare to follow their heart?

Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot

📅Fri 26 Jun·18:30

Romeo and Juliet

Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot

📅Fri 26 Jun19:00

Easy Street Big Band

This sensational local bandpresent an evening of dazzling swing and big band classics.

Prescot Parish Church, Prescot

📅Fri 26 Jun·19:00

Easy Street Big Band

Prescot Parish Church, Prescot

📅Sat 27 Jun19:00

Bost: A Night At The Musicals

Fresh from their incredible performances of Les Misrables at Liverpool Empire in 2025, the award-winning musical theatre company are back on stage for more clas…

Prescot Methodist Centre, Prescot

📅Sat 27 Jun·19:00

Bost: A Night At The Musicals

Prescot Methodist Centre, Prescot

📅Sat 27 Jun11:00

Take Flight

Take Flight is a stunning aerial theatre show for 0-2 year olds and their grown ups.

Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot

📅Sat 27 Jun·11:00

Take Flight

Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot

Festival Finale with South Liverpool Orchestra

📅Sun 28 Jun18:00

Festival Finale with South Liverpool Orchestra

A 50th anniversary celebration for this local community orchestra, presenting an array of light classics, musical lollipops, and Last Night of the Proms favouri…

Prescot Parish Church, Prescot

📅Sun 28 Jun·18:00

Festival Finale with South Liverpool Orchestra

Prescot Parish Church, Prescot

📅Wed 1 Jul19:00

Charles Dickens: The Hanged Man's Bride

Adapted by James Nicholas, Blue Orange Arts presents: A brand new adaptation of one of Charles Dickens’ most haunting ghost stories!“She comes towards me on the…

Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot

📅Wed 1 Jul·19:00

Charles Dickens: The Hanged Man's Bride

Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot

📅Fri 3 Jul19:00

One Man Poe: The Black Cat & The Raven

Immerse yourselves in two timeless tales from the Godfather of Gothic Horror, Edgar Allan Poe.Arguably Poe’s darkest tale, The Black Cat depicts an alcoholic’s…

Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot

📅Fri 3 Jul·19:00

One Man Poe: The Black Cat & The Raven

Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot

📅Tue 7 Jul19:00

The Perfect Match

Expect fun, fish (for some reason), and conversations about life and love.Rowan is desperately trying to finish the musical she has been writing for six years w…

Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot

📅Tue 7 Jul·19:00

The Perfect Match

Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot

Ricky Tomlinson – Retirement my Ar*e Tour!

Ricky Tomlinson – Retirement my Ar*e Tour!

From his time in the building trade to becoming a TV legend & a freeman of Liverpool, Ricky Tomlinson tells all to writer of successful theatre show Irish Annie…

Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot

Ricky Tomlinson – Retirement my Ar*e Tour!

Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot

📅Wed 15 Jul19:30

The Easy Rollers

In 2026, The Easy Rollers celebrate their 10th anniversary, embarking on their most high-profile UK tour yet.Whether in their widely acclaimed, lingo-slinging,…

Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot

📅Wed 15 Jul·19:30

The Easy Rollers

Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot

📅Thu 16 Jul19:30

Get Blue: A Tribute to the Fab Four

A Jazz Tribute to The BeatlesExperience the timeless tunes of The Beatles with a Cool Cat Twist and join us for an unforgettable evening, as top-notch jazz musi…

Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot

📅Thu 16 Jul·19:30

Get Blue: A Tribute to the Fab Four

Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot

📅Fri 17 Jul19:30

The Kate Bush Song Book

Since embarking on their musical journey back in 2012, Cloudbusting have been touring theatres and music venues across the UK and Europe, exploring the intricac…

Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot

📅Fri 17 Jul·19:30

The Kate Bush Song Book

Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot

📅Sat 18 Jul19:30

Oasiz

OASIZ are one of the UK’s most authentic tribute bands a point proved in 2023 when a short clip of front man Steve performing as Liam went viral on social media…

Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot

📅Sat 18 Jul·19:30

Oasiz

Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot

📅Tue 21 Jul19:30

Twelfth Night

Get in a fight. Cross-dress. Throw on some yellow stockings. Love can make you do the funniest things…!

Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot

📅Tue 21 Jul·19:30

Twelfth Night

Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot

📅Wed 22 Jul11:00

Reynard the Fox

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 t…

Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot

📅Wed 22 Jul·11:00

Reynard the Fox

Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot

📅Fri 24 Jul14:00

As You Like It

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 s…

Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot

📅Fri 24 Jul·14:00

As You Like It

Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot

🌿🌿 Days Out

📅Fri 31 Jul19:00

Wine Tasting event

"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 Pl…

Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot

From £40

🌿 Days Out

📅Fri 31 Jul·19:00

Wine Tasting event

Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot

From £40

📅Sat 1 Aug19:00

Tosca

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 defian…

Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot

📅Sat 1 Aug·19:00

Tosca

Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot

📅Thu 6 Aug18:30

Summer of Love: Love’s Labour’s Lost

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 labou…

Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot

📅Thu 6 Aug·18:30

Summer of Love: Love’s Labour’s Lost

Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot

📅Fri 7 Aug18:30

Summer of Love: Much Ado About Nothing

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 distinc…

Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot

📅Fri 7 Aug·18:30

Summer of Love: Much Ado About Nothing

Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot

📅Thu 27 Aug18:30

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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 ope…

Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot

📅Thu 27 Aug·18:30

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot

📅Fri 11 Sept19:30

Macbeth

What would you destroy to get what you want?A dagger. A crown. The original text.One musician. Ten storytellers. Fifty candles.

Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot

📅Fri 11 Sept·19:30

Macbeth

Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot

The Story of Edith Smith by Pauline Fleming

📅Fri 18 Sept19:00

The Story of Edith Smith by Pauline Fleming

Edith Smith, born in Oxton, was Britain’s first female police constable given the powers of arrest.

Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot

📅Fri 18 Sept·19:00

The Story of Edith Smith by Pauline Fleming

Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot

📅Fri 2 Oct19:30

Alex Stringer: Happy Hour

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.

Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot

📅Fri 2 Oct·19:30

Alex Stringer: Happy Hour

Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot

📅Wed 7 Oct19:30

The Picture of Dorian Gray

A Portrait to Die ForIn a society obsessed with youth and beauty, Dorian Gray is offered the ultimate prize: eternal perfection.

Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot

📅Wed 7 Oct·19:30

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot

📅Thu 15 Oct19:00

The Hammer & Helena

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 rel…

Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot

📅Thu 15 Oct·19:00

The Hammer & Helena

Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot

📅Sat 17 Oct19:00

Off Grid

Imagine being dragged into a wild camping trip with your politically outspoken uncle out of social awkwardness.No technology allowed.

Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot

📅Sat 17 Oct·19:00

Off Grid

Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot

📅Thu 26 Nov19:30

Selected Works: Table Top Shakespeare

A salt and pepper pot for the king and queen. A ruler for the prince. A spoon for the servant.

Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot

📅Thu 26 Nov·19:30

Selected Works: Table Top Shakespeare

Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot

📅Tue 1 Dec19:30

Ghost Stories For Christmas

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…

Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot

📅Tue 1 Dec·19:30

Ghost Stories For Christmas

Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot

📅Tue 8 Dec10:00

A Very Messy Christmas

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.

Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot

📅Tue 8 Dec·10:00

A Very Messy Christmas

Shakespeare North Playhouse, Prescot