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Review: Girl from the North Country at Liverpool Empire ****1/2
Playwright Conor McPherson has spent his career placing disparate characters in isolated or bleak settings (bedsits, seaside suburbs, a...


Review: Dreamgirls at Liverpool Empire ****
Twelve months after its Christmas residency, Dreamgirls is back at the Empire for the final hurrah of its inaugural UK tour – and if the...


Review: Jack and the Beanstalk at Hope Street Theatre ****
Fe fi fo fum, something seasonally silly this way comes. There are tall stories, and then there’s Jack and the Beanstalk, the improbable...


Review: Goldilocks and the Three Bears at Epstein Theatre ****
Panto season is packed with fairy godmothers, sleeping princesses, diminutive miners, magic carpets and improbable runaway vegetation. So...


23 shows to catch in Liverpool in 2023
Liverpool is lucky to have such a wide range of theatres and performance spaces, all presenting exciting and thought-provoking theatre –...


Review: White Christmas at Liverpool Empire ****
It’s usually snow which throws plans into disarray – but it’s the lack of the cold, fluffy stuff which causes the biggest headache for...


Review: Cinderella at the Floral Pavilion ***1/2
Is there anything more evocative of (and peculiarly distinctive about) a British Christmas than a theatre full of children screaming ‘oh...


Bridgerton star to play Richard III at Liverpool Playhouse in 2023
Bridgerton’s Adjoa Andoh will take on the role of the ‘hunchback’ king in Shakespeare’s Richard III which comes to the Liverpool...


Review: Red Riding Hood at Liverpool Everyman ***
The Everyman’s rock ‘n’ roll panto has become a Christmas tradition for many Liverpool theatregoers, and just like the Royal Court down...


White Christmas cast celebrate the seasonal spectacular heading for Liverpool Empire
White Christmas – or blue skies? Luckily you don’t have to choose at the Liverpool Empire this season because both are on offer in the...
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