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

Fairytale ‘baddies’ get such a bad rap don’t they? But honestly, are they all really evil, or are some maybe just a bit, you know,...

Anton Bruckner was, by all accounts, a pretty peculiar man. He was obsessed with counting architectural features, had a troubling...

Reunions can be tricky things. They often come arm in arm with huge expectations which, thanks to intervening time and tide, are...

It’s certainly a week for prodigal returns at Hope Street. Tomorrow, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic’s greatest son – Sir Simon Rattle –...

It may not be the most famous, but Edward Scissorhands is arguably the most beguiling of all Matthew Bourne’s many stage creations from...

Gerry Linford has trodden a prolific playwriting path since he won a ‘highly commended’ award at the Liverpool Hope Playwriting Prize...

Stumbling stones – or Stolpersteine in German – are small brass squares embedded into pavements outside the former homes of Jewish people...

‘What is a man?’ muses one of the peripheral characters in I Am Steven Gerrard, being premiered at the Hope Street Theatre this week....

It seems to be the season for stage versions of 90s films. Last week the lads of Brit hit The Fully Monty strutted their stuff on the...

Who could have envisaged back in the summer of 1997 that a modestly-budgeted British indie film about a group of unemployed Sheffield...