Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse announces 2026 season

Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse has set out plans for its 2026 season.

The year opens with the world premiere of The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher, adapted by Alexandra Wood from Hilary Mantel’s 2014 short story and directed by John Young (from 2 to 23 May).

Young explained: “This isn’t just a play for people who have an opinion or strong feeling towards Maggie Thatcher. It’s about class, about lives that collide, people trying to understand, asking questions, coming together, and bridging that divide. I also think it’s a play about what happens when people feel they don’t have a voice, and how dangerous it is when they feel they don’t have anything to lose.”

Julia Cranney’s Attachment follows from 4 to 13 June, developed with Merseyside adoptive families and offering opportunities for Young Everyman Playhouse graduates and early-career artists.

YEP’s 18 to 25 company then presents Jekyll & Hyde (2 to 4 July), a new version of the Stevenson story by Evan Placey set against a contemporary digital backdrop, exploring ambition and identity.

In September, the Everyman stages a new production of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, returning to the playwright a decade after presenting The Hook. Creatives are to be revealed, with the show running from 19 September to 10 October.

The 2026 Rock ‘n’ Roll panto, Beauty and the Beast, runs at the end of the year, written by Joe Ward Munrow and directed by Nathan Powell.

Two previously announced Everyman co-productions also form part of the season: The Memory of Water, staged with Octagon Theatre Bolton, and Waiting for Godot, created with Citizens Theatre and the Octagon.

The Playhouse season includes Prima Facie with Jodie Comer, Inspector Morse: House of Ghosts, The Woman in Black, War of the Worlds from imitating the dog, the RSC’s The Constant Wife, and stage versions of The Shawshank Redemption and Single White Female.