Theatre 90/106

Review: North by Northwest at Liverpool Playhouse ****

It seems incredible that it’s taken 30 years for Anthony Burgess’s own live version of his best-known work to be brought to the stage....

Chester Storyhouse is preparing for its second summer season of shows which will play at the striking former cinema venue. Steven...

You can’t stop the beat at the Empire this week – but then why would you want to when a show is as much glorious fun as Hairspray?...

Stabbings, poisonings, gang warfare….400 years after his own death, Shakespeare proves it’s plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose when...

Matthew Bourne’s work has always been inspired by the silver screen – not least The Red Shoes, which he brought to the Empire 12 months...

Multi award-winning hit musical Kinky Boots is making its first visit to Liverpool next spring. The West End and Broadway smash will be...

What do you do when everything that defines you – as an individual and a community – suddenly threatens to disappear? It’s a question...

It was a glance up at the birds on top of the Royal Liver Building five years ago which sparked the idea for a new musical that is...

Liverpool writer Joanne Sherryden’s bittersweet tragi-comedy was last staged at the Unity five years ago. And like its fellow theatre in...

Seven years ago, a teenage Rebecca Mendoza was in the audience when her favourite musical Hairspray came to the Liverpool Empire. Now the...