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Review: Othello at Liverpool Playhouse ****
Frantic Assembly’s robust retelling of Othello has gone back to the pub for a third round of drinks, aggro and futile bloodshed. The...


Everyman and Playhouse reveals season of world premieres and revisited classics
The Everyman and Playhouse will stage three world premieres in the first full season under its new creative director Suba Das. Meanwhile...


Review: One Man, Two Guvnors at Liverpool Playhouse ****
Richard Bean’s spirited adaptation of Carlo Goldoni’s classic commedia dell’arte play The Servant of Two Masters helped turn James Corden...


Review: The Rise and Fall of Little Voice at Liverpool Playhouse ***
Jim Cartwright’s much-loved, award-winning tale about finding your voice turns the big 30 this year. And while some elements of the play...


Review: The Meaning of Zong at Liverpool Playhouse ****1/2
Over the last two decades Liverpool has started to make a conscious effort to confront its slave trading past – from the city council’s...


Review: Sheila's Island at Liverpool Playhouse ***
They say life imitates art. In this all-female reboot of Tim Firth’s original Neville’s Island, four middle-aged, middle-income, middle...


Tim Firth on putting women centre stage in Sheila's Island
Thirty years ago, a young Tim Firth penned his first play Neville’s Island - a comedy about four middle-aged men on a team building...


One Man, Two Guvnors brings riotous comedy to Liverpool Playhouse
One Man, Two Guvnors arrives on the Liverpool stage for a two-and-a-half-week run this summer. The new production of Richard Bean’s smash...


Roger McGough on poetry, pandemic and Prince Andrew's teddies
Many things simply stopped when Covid arrived on these shores two years ago – but creativity wasn’t one of them. Writers, playwrights,...


Liverpool Playhouse return for Fantastically Great Women
Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World is returning to the Liverpool Playhouse this spring. The new production was the...
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