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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...
Everyman and Playhouse reveals 2025 season programme
Three new ‘homegrown’ productions in Hope Street will anchor the inaugural season from Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse’s new creative...
Jason Donovan prepares to rock the Liverpool Playhouse this christmas
“I can’t wait to get back to Liverpool,” Jason Donovan says. “I always enjoy soaking up all that fantastic endless musical heritage and...
Christmas shows across Liverpool City Region in 2024
Untangle the tinsel and fairy lights, dig out the ‘elf on a shelf’ and break out the selection box – the most wonderful time of the year...
Review: Play On! at the Liverpool Playhouse ****
Shakespeare wasn’t averse to borrowing plots or characters from historic texts – and in turn his work has been the inspiration for...
Jason Donovan joins Rocky Horror at Liverpool this Christmas
Jason Donovan will join the cast for the opening of the Rocky Horror Show at the Liverpool Playhouse this Christmas. The actor and singer...
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