Comedy
Ellie Taylor: Palavering!
Comedian, presenter and actor Ellie Taylor is coming to Liverpool Playhouse on her brand new stand-up tour in Spring 2025! Star of Ted Lasso, Live at the Apollo and The Mash Report, as well as host of Bake Off The Professionals, Ellie is back with a new stand up show! The viral sensation whose sketch...
The Scouse Red Riding Hood
Little Red is off her head. Her nan’s in bed and the wolf’s not fed. With a pan of scouse and a loaf of bread, she’s off to the forest where the woodsman led. What’s that noise? It’s the sound of the Royal Court Christmas show coming steaming back into town! Jam-packed with jokes and...
Jenny Eclair: Jokes Jokes Jokes Live!
In celebration of the release of her hilarious memoir of the same name, comedian, novelist, and professional show-off Jenny Eclair comes to Liverpool Playhouse with a brand-new autobiographical show. From drama school, (mostly drinking cider and eating sausage rolls), sleeping with men who looked like they lived under a carpet, punk poetry, anorexia, bedsit misery,...
Up Next Festival 2024
Unity Theatre’s Up Next Festival is back for 2024 for it’s annual celebration of Merseyside artists, and this year it’s bigger than ever. This Spring, join Unity for an extended two-week arts festival featuring brand-new shows from Merseyside’s most exciting artists and companies. This year’s festival includes newly commissioned works across a range of artforms...
Rosie Holt: That’s Politainment!
The worse the political career, the more lucrative the subsequent entertainment opportunities. Matt Hancock may have slaughtered millions but now he’s making a killing. So can Rosie Holt’s viral hit MP follow “politainers” Dorries, Farage and Rees-Mogg and leap from the pages of Hansard to Heat? Following a hugely successful Edinburgh Fringe season, Rosie takes...
Griff Rhys Jones: The Cat’s Pyjamas
Griff Rhys Jones is back on the road with his much-anticipated brand new stand-up tour for 2024. Join Griff as he shares more funny observations and comic stories. The show always varies as Griff rambles on the developing national permacrisis. Age. Family. Fraud. Nostalgia. The Tik Tok generation. Crocodile smuggling and noodling in Australia. Travel,...
Ivo Graham: Organised Fun
After dismantling a barge, doxxing himself in the Doubletree, and blanking on the 1992 Ipswich Town crest (Taskmaster, Off Menu, University Challenge), Ivo ropes his audience into more chaos against the clock. “Humiliation’s your thing, right?” his brother asked him at Christmas, and, with the full existential ramifications of that still being processed, he’s lining...
Jon Courtenay: Bigger
The winner of ITV’s Britain’s Got Talent takes to the road with this brand-new show for 2024! Join Jon for his biggest show yet jam-packed with the very best in music, comedy and entertainment, following a hugely successful season at the Edinburgh Festival. As well Jon’s trademark brand of musical comedy with all new material,...
Rosie Jones: Triple Threat
Rosie Jones is on the road for a UK tour and, boy, she is EXCITED. Join Rosie as she ponders whether she is a national treasure, a little prick, or somewhere in between! This show is guaranteed to be full of unapologetic cheekiness, nonsensical fun and unadulterated JOY from the triple threat herself. Best known...
Tim Vine: Breeeep!
It’s Tim Vine and he’s back with a brand new stand-up show! Come and enjoy a mountain of nonsense, daft one-liners, joyful songs, wobbly props and ridiculous humour. (Plus utter drivel.) Witness the stupidity. Then leave. Switched on the Christmas lights in Cheam two years on the run. All tickets non-repundable.
