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Review: Alice in Wonderland at Shakespeare North Playhouse ***
Shakespeare North Playhouse looks once again to inspiration from a much-loved classic text for its third Christmas family show. In 2022...


Shows to see in Liverpool in 2025
A new year means new treats in store for Liverpool theatre lovers with a busy season of shows being staged at venues across the city…and a little beyond. A quarter of a century into the ‘new millennium’ – and, somehow, five years since the devastating you know what – there’s much to enjoy coming our way between January and December. Whether it’s old friends, first time visitors, acclaimed touring productions, re-worked Shakespearean classics, brilliant musicals, homegrown hit


Liverpool Empire dates for Gary Barlow Songbook Tour
Gary Barlow brings The Songback Tour to the Liverpool Empire next spring. The Take That singer-songwriter, composer and producer will...


Annual Edward Rushton lecture is all the rage
An annual event named in member of pioneering blind Liverpool poet, bookseller and abolitionist will be held at the Museum of Liverpool...


Review: Rapunzel the Rock 'n' Roll Panto at Liverpool Everyman ***1/2
Hair we go! Christmas is a-coming, and that means fairy lights, the mainlining of mince pies and the arrival of the Everyman Rock ‘n’...


Review: It's a Wonderful Life at the Royal Court Studio ****
Christmas is on the horizon now which means two things – panto season and the return of festive favourite It’s a Wonderful Life to the...


Review: 1984 at the Liverpool Playhouse ***1/2
George Orwell’s dystopian masterwork is 75 years old now, but its author didn’t live to see its impact, dying just a few months after its...


Ian Prowse plays O2 Academy date ahead of record re-release
Liverpool singer-songwriter Ian Prowse is set to re-release his LP The Journey in the New Year to mark two decades since the record was...


Review: The Scouse Red Riding Hood at Liverpool's Royal Court ****
After Dick Whittington, Cinderella and Jack and the Beanstalk, the Royal Court team has sunk its teeth into another famous fairytale for...


Review: An American in Paris at Philharmonic Hall ****1/2
Just before the Philharmonic Hall closed for major building work in 2014, the RLPO premiered Poltroons in Paradise – a specially...
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