Autumn programme at Hope Street Theatre

Liverpool’s Hope Street Theatre is hosting a busy series of shows over the autumn with productions including dramas, comedies, spooky stories and Christmas panto capers.

The venue is dedicated to supporting the best in local and professional theatre in a year-round programme of productions at its Hope Street base.

Among the autumn offering is a new Scouse comedy, At The End of Our Street, running from October 17-19.

Written by Leo Moore and co-directed by Sab Muthasamy and Lewis Faulkner, the story centres around two brothers who dream of living in the big house at the end of their Bootle street. But when it finally becomes available, they’re dismayed to discover an Ecuadorian couple have moved in instead. What lengths will Barry and Gary go to to try and persuade them to leave?

Jam Jar Theatre Company presents the charming children’s tentacle-tapping puppet musical How a Jellyfish Saved the World on October 20.

Meanwhile Muthasamy returns from October 23-26 with 4AM Productions’ The Book of Horror volume 2, promising pre-Halloween thrills and chills with the ‘curator’ reading six spooky and shocking short stories.

Corrie’s Steven Arnold stars in David Spicer’s Doing the Magic on October 27. The Northern Comedy Theatre production is billed as a ‘laugh out loud comedy full of illusion and confusion’.

Steve Bird and Paul Daley's On the Banks of the Royal Blue Mersey, running from November 6-9, tells the ‘comic history of Everton Football Club’.

Seven Blue Productions mix comedy and hard-hitting drama in That Girl on TV which receives stage preview performances on November 14-15. The show is suitable for audiences aged 14 and over due to some strong language and scenes of an upsetting nature.

Phil Jones, lead singer of cult Liverpool band Afraid of Mice, stars alongside son Ben in a musical comedy on November 16.

In Part Vampire, Jones plays Jack Moody, a 70-year-old actor who has spent his career playing small roles as an extra in Hammer Horror films. When he decides to change his luck and go for a major role as a vampire at a run-down film studio, he faces some unexpected competition.

An Evening of Talking Heads by Alan Bennett takes place on December 6.

And Just Entertainment Ltd returns to Hope Street for a fourth season to present the magical family panto Sleeping Beauty which stars Lily Wheeler as Princess Aurora, Brian Comer as Prince Gareth of Gateacre, Phil Perez as King Kristoph, Roxanne Male as Fairy Twinkle and Aaron Hayes as Dame Dolly.

The panto runs from December 13-31.

For full details on the programme and booking visit the theatre's website HERE