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

In the autumn of 1982, the UK’s official unemployment figure stood at almost three million. Liverpool accounted for more than 96,000 of...

Does the world speed up as you get older? Tempus has certainly fugit since Domingo Hindoyan first arrived at Hope Street – and remarkably...

“All we need is some bloody common sense here,” points out a frustrated Daniel Blake in an early encounter with the machinery of...

There’s certainly food for thought – albeit with a side order of frustration - in ETT’s new touring production of Macbeth, premiering at...

It was watching shows at the Liverpool Everyman which first fired a passion for theatre in the heart of a Birkenhead teenager called...

The unemployment statistics for Depression Era America make for grim reading, and 1933 was its ‘annus horribilis’ (to borrow a phrase...

They say you should never work with children or animals – but this effervescent Empire Youth Theatre production of hit musical Legally...

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...