What's on stage in Liverpool during June 2025

Midsummer arrives this month but even if it doesn’t bring traditional Puckish sprites and Rude Mechanicals, there’s still plenty of entertainment promised across Liverpool’s many theatres.

The first week of June is also the final week for Hamilton which has been packing in musicals fans at the Liverpool Empire for the past month.

Lin Manuel Miranda’s multi-award-winning musical tells the story of revolutionary and statesman Alexander Hamilton from his hard childhood on the Caribbean island of Nevis to his part in the American War of Independence, his marriage to Elizabeth Schuyler, and career as a lawyer and secretary of the treasury of the newly formed United States to his fatal duel with fellow Founding Father Aaron Burr.

It closes on June 7.

Overlapping with Hamilton by a few days is Speedo Mick the Musical, which opens at the Royal Court on June 3 and is due to run until July 5.

A world premiere for June, the show – written by John Fay, songs by Boff Whalley and starring Paul Duckworth – tells the story of the titular ‘Scouse Stomper’ and diehard Evertonian who has raised more than £1million for charity in his trusty tight trunks.

Meanwhile it’s a busy month at the Hope Street Theatre, with the first production in June being the Workers Theatre Movement Project.

The hugely influential movement sprang up in the 1920s and 30s when radical groups took the streets and union halls with a vibrant mix of politics and theatre. The fascinating show runs from June 6-8.

Hot on Hamilton’s heels at the Empire, the hotly anticipated UK tour of the West End smash hit Only Fools and Horses musical arrives at Lime Street on June 9.

The show, running until June 21, is co-written by Jim Sullivan – son of the late Only Fools and Horses writer John – and Paul Whitehouse, who also reprises his role as Grandad for Liverpool audiences. Cushty!

Above: Only Fools and Horses is at the Liverpool Empire for two weeks.

Over at the Unity Theatre, Knight’s Dream on June 11 is a new musical play inspired by Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream which reimagines the classic story in a modern setting where a mischievous bar tender in the eponymous Knight’s Dream bar orchestrates some familiar chaos.

Then up the road, from June 12-21, the Everyman premieres Wirral writer Billie Collins’ The Walrus Has a Right to Adventure, drawing together three strands of story featuring unexpected wildlife encounters in different parts of the world.

The 1967 musical You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown is performed at the Hope Street Theatre from June 16-17 by third year acting students from Liverpool Theatre School.

And then staying at the same venue, there’s are plans for a school reunion in the air in 15 Years Later, running from June 20-21. But what sets out as a happy occasion takes a melancholic turn as old classmates muse on how their lives have gone.

There’s nothing melancholy about Northern Comedy Theatre’s Abridg’d Too Far! which visits Hope Street on June 25. Ever felt guilty for not reading some of those literary classics?

Never fear, the company’s troupe of talented actors will romp through three suggested titles in no more than 22 minutes and 17 seconds each.

Above: Speedo Mick is at Liverpool's Royal Court.

Last but not least, Speedo Mick isn’t the only Everton-inspired show on the stage this month.

On the Banks of the Royal Blue Mersey comes to the Epstein Theatre on June 26-27.

Steve Bird and Paul Daley’s comedy charts the history of the ‘People’s Club’ from its early years to modern day, and some of the memorable events and characters along the way.

Further Afield

Shakespeare North continues its busy summer schedule on both its inside and outside stages.

Inside, in the Cockpit Theatre, HER Productions, Girl Gang Manchester and Unseemly Women present Macbeth from June 5-7. While men fight, women gather at night in this female-led production.

Imaginarium presents Act Your Age on June 12.

And the John Godber Company returns to Prescot from June 25-28 with his new play The Highwayman.

It’s 1769, and everyone is flocking north; every ale house is packed with the great and the bad. The North is the place to be - a region drunk on making money, social climbing, gambling and gin, but with wealth in abundance, the temptation is great.

Meanwhile in Southport, The Atkinson hosts London Classic Theatre – currently celebrating its 25th anniversary - which visits with Alan Ayckbourn’s 1976 masterclass in suburban comedy, Just Between Ourselves.

It’s on stage from June 19-21.

For more details and to book, visit the individual venue's websites.