Theatre 9/117

Review: Conteh at Liverpool's Royal Court ****

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

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

December 1961 was an eventful one for four lads from Liverpool. The month started with a meeting in the office at NEMS in Whitechapel...

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...

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

The Royal Court Studio has become one of the main spaces in Liverpool to showcase new work – not least from the playwrights who is...

There may still be plenty of summer ahead of us but it’s never too early to start planning for autumn attractions – including of course...

The four actors-musicians set to play the young Beatles in a world premiere on stage in Liverpool this autumn have been revealed. Michael...

It’s become part of Scouse folklore. So it was perhaps inevitable the (tallish) tale of the time a teenage Coleen McLoughlin chucked her...

The Shawshank Redemption was nominated for seven Oscars when it hit our cinema screens in 1994. Now the prison drama is coming to the...