Liverpool Fringe Festival 2025 full programme details

Liverpool Fringe Festival returns to city theatre spaces next week with 20 shows and events over its 12-day run.

The annual festival takes place from September 30 to October 11.

Among the venues involved this year are The Studio Below in Rodney Street and The Studio Beyond in Wood Street, the Casa, Ship and Mitre and Valley Community Theatre.

The Liverpool Fringe dates back to 2016 when Sam Buist, Owen McGough and Steff Hudson realised a vision to create a not-for-profit event which would be a platform for talent and be accessible to everyone, creatives and audiences alike.

The 2025 event features a range of performances from plays to poetry, comedy and storytelling, and entrance tickets range between £6 and £12. Some events are free.

Stand Up, a play by Bernie Winston – one of four Winston has in the festival, is at The Studio Beyond in Wood Street on October 1.

Fiona Scott’s comedy cabaret drama Flamenco or Bust! plays the Casa in Hope Street on October 2, while John and Ally, by Evita Akomode, is being staged at The Studio Beyond on October 3.

Curious Imposter Productions presents This Woman’s Work by Ste Mc at The Studio Beyond on October 3, and the venue also hosts Internal Furnace, written by Rachel Pennington, on the same day.

Then Foxtrot Productions presents Murder at the Velvet Mine, an interactive murder mystery theatrical experience, at The Ship and Mitre in Dale Street on October 3 and 4.

Grapple, an evening of spoken word, storytelling and poetry ‘for adult ears only’ is at The Arts Bar in Hope Street on October 4, while the date also sees a performance of Ripples on a Pond, written by Ian Cragg, at The Studio Beyond.

Above: The Ship and Mitre. Top: The Last Days of Trump is at The Studio Below.

On October 5, Mason King: The Mind Spy is at The Studio Beyond and Foxtrot Productions presents Blood Will Tell, an interactive murder mystery theatrical experience, at The Ship and Mitre.

Bernie Winston’s Bad Blood at The Studio Beyond on October 6. One the same day, a double bill – The Ballad of Crooked Lane by Tom Mclennan and Day Sheehan’s Wake - is being staged at Valley Theatre in Childwall Valley Road, before being repeated on October 7 at The Studio Beyond.

The Masked Femme Returns in a free rehearsed reading at The Studio Below, 36 Rodney Street, on October 7.

The Ship and Mitre hosts Poetry on the Fringe on October 8 at 7pm. Free entry.

There’s a double bill – The Fox and a Writing Showcase - at The Studio Beyond on October 9, while the venue is also hosting Fringe Bangs! a ‘hair raising’ new film festival on the same day.

The Last Days of Trump, by Eoin Carney, comes to The Studio Below on October 10 after successful performances at the Buxton and Edinburgh Fringe Festivals.

Comedy acts make their fringe debuts in Behind the Laughter at The Studio Beyond on October 10.

Check out a Bernie Winston double bill at The Studio Beyond on October 11 – featuring Relics and Wise and Foolish.

And Shakespeare on the Spot improv by Stephen Longstaffe is at Studio Below on the same date.

Liverpool Fringe Theatre runs from September 30 to October 11. More details HERE