While his usual Liverpool stamping ground is up the road at the Empire, four years ago Matthew Bourne brought his playful Early...

HG Wells’ deadly fin de siècle sci-fi tale has been through any number of storytelling permutations and genres since it was published at...

Good things come to those that wait. And for fans of Teatro Pomodoro, the Liverpool-based international theatre troupe, it’s been an...

Everyone loves a David and Goliath story, a tale of the little person’s triumph over ‘the man’. And surely everyone loves a pie? So it’s...

You wait for one play about simmering family secrets, lies and resentments exploding at a 65th birthday party – and then two come along...

Jonathan Harvey’s hotly anticipated new play Our Lady of Blundellsands was dealt a blow when its premiere run was cut cruelly short by...

Is there such a thing as a perfect crime? That’s the question posed by Frederick Knott’s play Dial M for Murder which its writer then...

It’s 20 years this November since the much-loved, much-missed George Harrison died at the age of just 58. In his family’s words, the...

They had, in chief executive Michael Eakin’s words, a ‘dress rehearsal’ at the BBC Proms last weekend. But grand though the Royal Albert...

Magic and illusion has always included the risk of going wrong – and perhaps it’s that frisson of jeopardy that adds an extra...