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Liver Birds are flying in to Liverpool Royal Court

It was a glance up at the birds on top of the Royal Liver Building five years ago which sparked the idea for a new musical that is getting its first full run in the city this month. Liver Birds Flying Home imagines what life might be like for Beryl and Sandra – Carla Lane’s famous creations – 40 years after they shared a flat together in Huskisson Street. The musical, being premiered at the Royal Court after an initial semi-staged concert version at the Epstein last year, is

Review: The Rainbow Connection at Royal Court Downstairs ****

Liverpool writer Joanne Sherryden’s bittersweet tragi-comedy was last staged at the Unity five years ago. And like its fellow theatre in Hope Place, the Royal Court’s new Downstairs studio theatre offers a similarly perfect intimate atmosphere for the neatly-realised two-hander. Angela Simms and Danny O’Brien, reprising their roles from 2013, play Sherryden’s protagonists; Simms the outwardly bubby Shelly, purveyor of artless malapropisms and dubious home cooking, and O’Brien

Hairspray dream comes true for Wirral actress Rebecca

Seven years ago, a teenage Rebecca Mendoza was in the audience when her favourite musical Hairspray came to the Liverpool Empire. Now the hit show is returning to the Lime Street theatre this week – and instead of being in the stalls, Rebecca is firmly centre stage. The Wirral actress is making her professional debut in the production. Not only that, but she’s playing the lead role of bubbly Tracy Turnblad, the big girl with big hair and even bigger heart who is on a mission

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