Review 17/48

Africa Oyé announces first acts for 2026 festival

There are two greasy spoons, it becomes clear early on, in this new comedy by first-time playwright Alice Bunker-Whitney. One is...

It’s fair to say it’s been a testing time for this year’s Liverpool Theatre Festival, with July a distinctly soggy backdrop for the...

The ebullient Mama G - part-Danny La Rue, part-Princess Margaret and wholly the colourful alter ego of performer Robert Pearce - appeared...

It seems that even after 111 years, Titanic continues to occupy a place in our consciousness, and to make headlines – sadly for yet more...

Grosvenor Park has tweaked its MO this season, taking its usual ‘family’ show out of the theatre and into the park in a promenade...

When Gary Barlow first approached his old mate Tim Firth – Frodsham’s other famous son – about penning a Take That musical, Firth was...

When Liverpool’s Tmesis Theatre isn’t creating endlessly inventive stage spectacles it’s running Physical Fest – a bi-annual celebration...

Just another Thursday night in Liverpool UNESCO City of Music. While down on the Pier Head a heaving festival crowd enjoyed a set from...

UNESCO City of Music, World Capital of Pop, home to the biggest band the globe has ever seen – we all know Liverpool’s musical...

It’s the hard-knock life for many people at the moment – but in the history of boom and bust, the Great Depression of the early 1930s...