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Review: Stella at the Unity Theatre ****

It seems we humans have always loved to scare ourselves – and each other. From tales of spirits told around the fire in ancient times to...

A three-month summer season of outdoor performances has been announced by Shakespeare North Playhouse. The busy programme of events will...

Shakespeare and Sherlock come to the open-air theatre at Calderstones Mansion House this summer. The Reader, which runs the South...

When My Beautiful Laundrette burst on to the big screen almost 40 years ago, it was an invigorating and influential cinematic moment....

The Royal Court’s smash hit Boys From the Blackstuff is set to go into the West End. The acclaimed stage version of Alan Bleasdale’s TV...

For every monarch that has lived to a great age and died peacefully in their beds, there are others who have come to a more…unexpected...

If Lennon and McCartney were essentially (as Come Together explains) “two lads from Liverpool, friends, brought together by fate – at a...

An Inspector Calls is set to return to the Liverpool Empire after a sell-out run at the Lime Street theatre in 2023. The multi...

History, as another play about a much-maligned character reminded me this week, is written by the victors. It’s also been largely written...

Just like those other shell-shocking moments in time, those of us who were alive then know exactly where we were and what we were doing...