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Africa Oyé announces first acts for 2026 festival

Liverpool’s Epstein Theatre is set to reopen its doors – two years after the much-loved city centre venue was forced to close. A series...

You wait ages for one Willy Russell play – and then two come along at the same time! With Shirley Valentine back at the Everyman and...

Four decades after she first slid chips and egg on to a plate, Shirley Valentine continues to speak directly to audiences all over the...

Love’s Labour’s Lost, Shakespeare’s early comedy, doesn’t often get staged these days. Even the RSC only seems to return to it every...

A moving new play inspired by its writer’s own experiences is being staged at the Liverpool Playhouse next month. Raven, by actor and...

The inspiration for a radical reimagining of Swan Lake apparently came to Matthew Bourne while he watched more traditionally staged...

John Godber’s infectious, Northern Soul-inspired stage show is heading for Shakespeare North Playhouse this spring. Do I Love You? comes...

Musical theatre is no stranger to a precocious protagonist – think little orphan Annie or, in more recent years, Tim Minchin’s Matilda....

It was hosting a trio of young evacuees during the Second World War which sparked the idea which eventually led to CS Lewis’ famous...

James Graham’s award-winning smash-hit play Dear England is heading for Liverpool as part of an inaugural UK tour. The inspiring...