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Moulin Rouge visits Liverpool in 2026 on first world tour
Multi-award-winning musical Moulin Rouge! is set to can-can into Liverpool next summer as part of its first ever world tour. The stunning...


Liverpool Empire going Back to the Future
Back to the Future the Musical is heading for Liverpool as part of its inaugural tour – but fans will have to be patient as it won’t be...


Review: Mona and Mimi at the Unity Theatre ***
When you talk about the women who were part of the Beatles ‘story’ it’s more usually the wives and girlfriends – people like Cynthia,...


Liverpool boxing legend John Conteh takes centre stage at Royal Court
Liverpool boxing legend John Conteh takes centre stage in a new drama set to come to the city’s Royal Court next spring. Conteh, written...


Unity Theatre's Graeme Phillips dies aged 77
Former Unity Theatre artistic director, and leading figure in the Liverpool arts community, Graeme Phillips has died at the age of 77 it...


Syncopated storytelling premieres at Liverpool Playhouse Studio this September
Liverpool Playhouse Studio is hosting the world premiere next month of an ‘intoxicating’ new two-hander which fuses music and...


Beatle matriarchs take centre stage in new play at Liverpool's Unity
December 1961 was an eventful one for four lads from Liverpool. The month started with a meeting in the office at NEMS in Whitechapel...


Tina the Tina Turner Musical at the Liverpool Empire ****
It’s rare for something that’s essentially a jukebox musical to have quite so meaty – or so hard-hitting – a storyline. But then the...


Review: Footloose at the Liverpool Empire ****
Footloose, in its original – exhilarating – film incarnation emerged as part of a collection of adolescent movies in the mid-80s (my own...


Review: Sauce and Sorcery at the Royal Court Studio ***
The Royal Court Studio has become one of the main spaces in Liverpool to showcase new work – not least from the playwrights who is...
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