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Review: The Woman in Black at the Liverpool Playhouse ****1/2

When Bill Kenwright decided to cast the central role in Cilla the Musical through open calls, he had no idea who would walk through the...

It’s been quite a birthday week for Classic FM, which is marking 25 years since it hit the airwaves. They spent a day with the Royals at...

Hours before The Royal’s opening night last week, the Royal Court was still something of a building site – in fact, peek behind the...

You can see why a tale of young dancers, actors and musicians on the cusp of life and striving for fame and success seems a perfect fit...

Before Chester’s Storyhouse opened, Grosvenor Park was the main stage for theatre in the city – albeit a low tech, wood bark stage, open...

Brian Clough’s ill-fated tenure in charge of Leeds United was short, but anything but sweet. The football manager’s 44-day struggle at...

Adrian Henri, Liverpool’s late bespectacled polymath, was famed for his ‘happenings’ and his embracing of Total Art – poetry, music and...

Ah, who wouldn’t want to be transported to the Cote d’Azur right now? It’s summer and there’s a chilled drink, a good book and a menu...

You wait for one Matthew Bourne show to come along – and two turn up in the same spring/summer season. Early Adventures at the Playhouse,...

Yesterday was midsummer’s day – so without wanting to depress anyone, from now on the evenings will be getting longer again. Although if...