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Liverpool Empire run for Boys From the Blackstuff
A celebrated production of Alan Bleasdale’s seminal Boys From the Blackstuff returns to Liverpool in 2025 – but this time it is set to be...


Blood Brothers returns to Liverpool Empire in 2025
Liverpool’s best-loved musical is set to return to the Empire stage in 2025 as the Lime Street theatre celebrates its centenary. Blood...


Review: Wicked at the Liverpool Empire *****
When Wicked landed in Liverpool for the first time a decade ago, the equivalent of one in seven of the city’s population came out to see...


Liverpool Empire to Let the People Sing in centenary year
The first amateur production of Les Miserables in the northwest will be staged at the Liverpool Empire next year as part of the theatre’s...


Review: Mind Mangler at Liverpool Empire ****1/2
Necessity may be the mother of invention, but it’s disaster which really fires the imagination of Mischief Theatre’s merry pranksters....


Bring It On at Liverpool Empire this summer
The Liverpool Empire’s Youth Theatre are bringing a bit of Broadway to Lime Street this summer. The talented teenagers and young actors...


Review: Life of Pi at Liverpool Empire ****1/2
First it was a book, then a film. But Yann Martel’s allegorical tale of a shipwrecked Indian teenager adrift in the Pacific with only a...


Review: I Should be So Lucky at Liverpool Empire ***1/2
The number and range of jukebox musicals has exploded since they first became a fixture of the theatrical scene – and particularly over...


Life of Pi puppeteers talk about their tiger feat
Fans of Yann Martel’s inspirational novel Life of Pi will know the story centres around two very different characters. One is the titular...


Johannes Radebe dons those Kinky Boots at Liverpool Empire
Everybody say yeah! Strictly star Johannes Radebe is set to don the red thigh-high footwear when Kinky Boots the musical comes to...
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