Theatre Visits

We make group bookings at theatres around the region, Liverpool, Chester, Mold, often benefiting from group discounts. We mostly travel by sharing cars or by train but occasionally, as for our trip to see Book of Wlll at the Northern Shakespeare we will book a coach.

 

 

Upcoming Theatre trips 2025

Cost: £45 per ticket (Includes a £10 discount). Payment by mid June.

TO RESERVE please email Lesley by APRIL 30th who will then confirm you have a ticket and send out payment details.

 

Adapted for the stage by Matthew White & Howard Jacques

There may be trouble ahead,

But while there’s moonlight, and music,

And love, and romance…

Let’s face the music and dance

You’re invited to the musical equivalent of the finest vintage champagne. Effervescent, elegant and exhilarating, Top Hat is a heady romantic cocktail laced with sparklingly witty dialogue, stunning choreography, lavish sets and gorgeous costumes. Irving Berlin’s irresistible score includes some of Hollywood’s greatest songs, the immortal Cheek to Cheek, Let’s Face the Music and Dance, Top Hat White Tie and Tails and Puttin’ on the Ritz.

When Broadway star Jerry Travers arrives in London to open a new show, he crosses paths with model Dale Tremont, whose beauty sleep is rudely interrupted by Jerry tap dancing in the hotel suite above hers. Instantly smitten, Jerry vows to abandon his bachelor life to win her – but the path of true love never does run smooth. Especially since Dale has mistaken Jerry for his hapless producer Horace, who’s trying to avoid the wrath of his formidable wife Madge, and Dale’s own fiery Italian admirer is planning a trip to Venice for her to showcase his couture gowns…

Based on the classic 1935 film which starred Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, the stage adaptation’s West End premiere won the 2013 Olivier Award for Best New Musical and the Evening Standard Award for Best Night Out. Acclaimed American director and choreographer Kathleen Marshall, whose Tony and Olivier Award-winning production of Anything Goes recently wowed audiences and critics in London and on television, comes to the UK to stage this brand-new production.

 

Cost: £37 per ticket

This new adaptation by Anne-Marie Casey breathes new life into one of the best loved novels of all time. Following the recent success of the Greta Gerwig film, this production is a celebration of women, filled with laughter, tears and a theatrical, heartwarming lifting of the spirits.

We have central Stalls seats at £37 each.

To reserve a seat please contact Chris Birch

If you are successful, you will be notified immediately with details of payment.

 

We have reserved seating for the performance of Matthew Bourne’s ballet, ‘ The Red Shoes’ for Thursday 26th February 2026 at the Liverpool Empire. It is a matinee performance commencing at 2.30pm with an interval.

The seating is mid to left circle and the cost of the tickets is £50 with a group discount.

 

’A timeless fairytale and Academy award winning movie, The Red Shoes has captivated audiences and inspired generations of dancers with its powerful tale of obsession, possession and one girl’s dream to be the greatest dancer in the world. Victoria Page lives to dance but her ambitions become a fierce struggle between the two men who inspire her passion. An intoxicating drama where life imitates art with fateful consequences’

 

Please email if you would like to reserve a seat and I will confirm a place by email.

Payment by the third week in November, including payment details.

 

We have provisionally booked 30 tickets (at £26 each) in the stalls at the Liverpool Everyman theatre for Waiting for Godot on Wednesday 18 March at 7.30 pm. I am required to confirm numbers and pay for tickets by 23 October, so I will have to ask for payment to be in the U3A Theatre account by 20 October. Already several performances are sold out!

 

From the theatre website:

‘Matthew Kelly and George Costigan star in a new staging of Samuel Beckett’s classic play – in which absolutely nothing happens.

 

Set in a shifting, timeless landscape, Waiting for Godot follows two men, Vladimir and Estragon, as they wait for someone who may never come. As they pass the time with scraps of conversation, moments of tenderness and flashes of dark humour, their story becomes a moving reflection on what it means to keep going in a world that rarely offers answers

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Beckett’s timeless play endures as one of the defining works of the 20th century and returns to our stage in all its strange, funny and heart-breaking brilliance. Darkly comic and deeply moving, Waiting for Godot is a profound exploration of what it means to be human – even when the waiting never ends.

A Citizens Theatre, Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse and Octagon Theatre Bolton production.’

 

Love’s Labour Lost, Shakespeare North Playhouse, 12th March 2025
TINA – The Tina Turner Musical, Lverpool Empire Theatre, August 14th 2025
Shirley Valentine,The Everyman March 20th 2025
Under The Mersey Moon, Floral Pavilion February 15th 2025
CLUEDO 2 – The Next Chapter!, Floral Pavilion, Tuesday 12th November 2024
Girls Don’t Play Guitars, Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool. October 3rd 2024
Richard, my Richard by Philippa  Gregory, Shakespeare North Playhouse, March 27th 2024
Blood Brothers Floral Pavilion, February 8th 2024
Noises Off by Michael Frayn, Storyhouse, Chester. February 7th, 2024
Swan Lake at Liverpool Empire, Varna Ballet, 10th January,2024  https://www.operavarna.com/index.php/en/ballet-varna