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Syncopated storytelling premieres at Liverpool Playhouse Studio this September

It’s rare for something that’s essentially a jukebox musical to have quite so meaty – or so hard-hitting – a storyline. But then the...

Footloose, in its original – exhilarating – film incarnation emerged as part of a collection of adolescent movies in the mid-80s (my own...

The Royal Court Studio has become one of the main spaces in Liverpool to showcase new work – not least from the playwrights who is...

It’s become part of Scouse folklore. So it was perhaps inevitable the (tallish) tale of the time a teenage Coleen McLoughlin chucked her...

If you’re going to stage a Beatles world premiere, there’s only one place you really want to do it. And Liverpool rolled out rousing...

Sixty years ago this year, a young would-be lyricist penned a speculative letter to an even younger aspiring composer. “I was told you...

September 1985. The wreck of the Titanic was discovered, England regained the Ashes, there was rioting in Handsworth and Brixton – and a...

There’s always a sense of occasion on the return of the Phil’s prodigal son – and while the fatted calf may have lived to graze another...

As the old saying goes – if these walls could talk. And that’s what happens, in a manner, in Ali Milles’ The Croft where those who have...

UNESCO City of Music. City with the most UK number ones per head of population. An unparalleled roster of musical artists including, of...