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Review: War of the Worlds at the Liverpool Playhouse ***

The Sound of Music is one of playwright Jonathan Harvey’s favourite things – so perhaps it was only a matter of time before he answered...

When Wicked landed in Liverpool for the first time a decade ago, the equivalent of one in seven of the city’s population came out to see...

When the full, deadly and terrifying reality of HIV and AIDS started to become widely known during the 1980s, many lesbians stepped up in...

Not Too Tame positions itself as ‘great night out specialists’ with high-octane storytelling at the heart of everything it does....

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but it’s disaster which really fires the imagination of Mischief Theatre’s merry pranksters....

Soon after I joined the Echo 20-odd years ago, its then editor asked me if I had any media role models. I didn’t, but felt I had to say...

Over on social media, everyone is raving about 42 Balloons – the uplifting new musical doing brisk business down the road at the Lowry....

If a week is deemed a long time in politics, then the five years since parts of the traditional northern Red Wall ‘turned blue’ is surely...

First it was a book, then a film. But Yann Martel’s allegorical tale of a shipwrecked Indian teenager adrift in the Pacific with only a...

When Kazakh Alim Beisembayev won the Leeds International Piano Competition three years ago, part of his extensive prize package was the...