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Woolton Picture House stages 12 Days of Christmas this December

John Lennon reputedly wanted his songwriting partnership with Paul McCartney to emulate that of Gerry Goffin and Carole King’s. And the...

You need deep pockets if you want to own a key piece of Beatle-related memorabilia – and amazingly even now there are still items coming...

Anyone who has ever worried their friend has got involved with a wrong’un will watch Love From a Stranger with a mounting sense of...

Getting a new musical off the ground isn’t for the faint-hearted. For every Hamilton or Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, there’s a...

It seems incredible that it’s taken 30 years for Anthony Burgess’s own live version of his best-known work to be brought to the stage....

You can’t stop the beat at the Empire this week – but then why would you want to when a show is as much glorious fun as Hairspray?...

Stabbings, poisonings, gang warfare….400 years after his own death, Shakespeare proves it’s plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose when...

Matthew Bourne’s work has always been inspired by the silver screen – not least The Red Shoes, which he brought to the Empire 12 months...

What do you do when everything that defines you – as an individual and a community – suddenly threatens to disappear? It’s a question...

Liverpool writer Joanne Sherryden’s bittersweet tragi-comedy was last staged at the Unity five years ago. And like its fellow theatre in...