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Review: The Meaning of Zong at Liverpool Playhouse ****1/2
Over the last two decades Liverpool has started to make a conscious effort to confront its slave trading past – from the city council’s...


Review: Waitress at Liverpool Empire ****
Waitress may contain enough sugar to turn an auditorium diabetic, but it’s not simply a toothachingly sweet musical confection. Based on...


Liverpool Hope Playwriting Prize 2022 winner revealed
A comedy about a politician’s extreme bid to cling on to power has won this year’s Liverpool Hope Playwriting Prize. Cardiff-based...


Mike Noble on his Liverpool stage debut in Corrina, Corrina
Mike Noble has been around the Liverpool theatre scene since he was born – so it’s a surprise to find out he has never appeared on stage...


Review: Around the World in 72 Days at Little LTF ***1/2
In the BBC’s recent adaptation of Jules Verne’s Around the World in 80 Days, the inept Phileas Fogg and his manservant Passpartout were...


Review: An Evening With Nana Funk at Little LTF ****
Liverpool Theatre Festival’s Little LTF has returned to St Luke’s Bombed Out Church for a second spring session showcasing new writing...


Review: Little Wimmin at Unity Theatre ****
When an email drops into your inbox advising the show you’re about to see contains haze, flashing lights, sudden loud music and “citrus...


Review: Animal Farm at Liverpool Playhouse ****1/2
George Orwell’s allegorical tale of revolution gone bad may be almost 80 years old, but it continues to resonate strongly, not least in...


Simon Callow talks life on board Anything Goes at the Liverpool Empire
It’s a two-show day for the cast of Anything Goes and Simon Callow hasn’t long come off stage at the Liverpool Empire after an energetic...


Review: Making It at Royal Court Studio ****
Fame and fortune are fickle mistresses, and trying to make it in the world of entertainment certainly isn’t for the faint-hearted. The...
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