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Review: Liver Birds Flying Home at Royal Court Liverpool **
Getting a new musical off the ground isn’t for the faint-hearted. For every Hamilton or Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, there’s a...


Bronté Barbé brings Beautiful to the Liverpool Empire
If you feel the earth move under your feet in Liverpool next week it won’t be an earthquake – just the arrival of the seismic stage...


Review: A Clockwork Orange at Liverpool Everyman ***1/2
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 prepares for summer rep season
Chester Storyhouse is preparing for its second summer season of shows which will play at the striking former cinema venue. Steven...


Review: Hairspray at the Liverpool Empire *****
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?...


Review: Romeo and Juliet at the Epstein Theatre ***1/2
Stabbings, poisonings, gang warfare….400 years after his own death, Shakespeare proves it’s plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose when...


Review: Matthew Bourne's Cinderella at Liverpool Empire ****
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...


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


Review: The Last Ship at Liverpool Playhouse ****
What do you do when everything that defines you – as an individual and a community – suddenly threatens to disappear? It’s a question...


Liver Birds are flying in to Liverpool Royal Court
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...
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