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Review: Now is Good at Chester Storyhouse ****
If the last two years have taught us anything it’s that human connection is vitally important to our wellbeing – and yet while we’re...


Review: The Rise and Fall of Little Voice at Liverpool Playhouse ***
Jim Cartwright’s much-loved, award-winning tale about finding your voice turns the big 30 this year. And while some elements of the play...


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...
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