musical | artscityliverpool 9/28

Kirkby Ski Slope inspires new Royal Court comedy

Alan Parker’s colourful confection of gangsters and showgirls has entertained generations of youngsters since it burst on to the big...

Playwright Conor McPherson has spent his career placing disparate characters in isolated or bleak settings (bedsits, seaside suburbs, a...

Twelve months after its Christmas residency, Dreamgirls is back at the Empire for the final hurrah of its inaugural UK tour – and if the...

It’s usually snow which throws plans into disarray – but it’s the lack of the cold, fluffy stuff which causes the biggest headache for...

White Christmas – or blue skies? Luckily you don’t have to choose at the Liverpool Empire this season because both are on offer in the...

Jay McGuiness may be used to performing in front of arena-sized live audiences – and for millions of TV viewers, but it turns out that...

Wicked will return to the Liverpool Empire in 2024 with a four-week run at the Lime Street theatre. The smash hit, multi-award winning...

Before bands and solo artists started to write their own music – before the Beatles basically – they relied on the prodigious output from...

Performers on roller skates will take to the stage at the Bluecoat this weekend in a new musical about the region’s buses – inspired by...

There are very few shows that can boast a natural ‘home’ – and a prodigal homecoming to boot. But Blood Brothers, Willy Russell’s tragic...