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Review: An Inspector Calls at Liverpool Playhouse ****
When, back in the early 90s, Stephen Daldry revealed his intention to stage An Inspector Calls at the National you can imagine it raising...


Falling Doors brings dystopian drama to Hope Street Theatre
Falling Doors Theatre Company revisits Hope Street this month, with a new dystopian comedy thriller which explores themes of grief and...


Calderstones Garden Theatre welcomes Shakespeare's Globe
The Bard is back at Calderstones this summer as Shakespeare’s Globe returns to the South Liverpool park. The London company’s touring...


Shakespeare North Playhouse work lifts off
The new Shakespeare North Playhouse is a step closer to reality with the next phase of construction work heralded by the arrival of a...


Review: Curtains at Liverpool Empire ***1/2
Ask musical theatre fans to name a Kander and Ebb show and they’ll probably offer you Cabaret or Chicago. But there’s a third ‘C’ in the...


Review: The Woman in Black at Liverpool Playhouse ****
Two actors, a handful of props, some judiciously deployed lighting and sound effects, and one ghostly apparition. Stephen Mallatratt’s...


Liverpool Empire date for Addams Family UK tour
The Addams Family are on their way to the Liverpool Empire this summer as part of a new national tour for the musical comedy. The hit...


How Living Dead is being brought to life at Liverpool Playhouse
Last year they brought Liverpool audiences an audacious multi-media infused version of Joseph Conrad’s tale Heart of Darkness. Now...


Review: Once at Liverpool Empire ****
The Empire’s sweeping stage and cavernous auditorium is the natural habitat of all-singing, all-dancing, all-action musical...


John Evans on his road to Colomendy at Royal Court Liverpool
The first thing John Evans did when he knew he was going to appear in the Royal Court’s new show was jump in his car and drive to Wales....
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