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Review: Pig Heart Boy at the Liverpool Playhouse ****
Life isn’t always easy – and great children’s stories don’t shy away from covering sensitive issues and asking difficult questions....
Jodie Comer makes Liverpool stage debut in Prima Facie tour
Childwall-raised screen star Jodie Comer is set to make her professional Liverpool stage debut next spring. The 32-year-old will reprise...
Comedians to catch in Liverpool this March
The days are getting longer, and spring finally seems ready to…well, spring. So why not celebrate with a good laugh during March? Here is...
Liverpool Playhouse Studio hosts moving new play Raven
A moving new play inspired by its writer’s own experiences is being staged at the Liverpool Playhouse next month. Raven, by actor and...
Review: The Merchant of Venice 1936 at Liverpool Playhouse ****
The Merchant of Venice has long been described as a ‘problem play’. Is it a comedy or a tragedy? And is Shakespeare condoning...
Merchant of Venice star Tracy-Ann Oberman on how Liverpool fought fascism
In The Merchant of Venice 1936, at the Liverpool Playhouse this week, Tracy-Ann Oberman plays Shylock as a steely Jewish matriarch facing...
Review: Rocky Horror Show at the Liverpool Playhouse ****1/2
Half-a-century after the Rocky Horror Show, Richard O’Brien’s love letter to his 50s cinema youth, first hit the stage it remains an...
Catch live comedy in Liverpool in 2025
We all know Liverpool likes a good laugh – and the city has a reputation as the birthplace of some of the biggest names in the business...
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
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...
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