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Review: Stella at the Unity Theatre ****

A celebrated production of Alan Bleasdale’s seminal Boys From the Blackstuff returns to Liverpool in 2025 – but this time it is set to be...

The Sound of Music is one of playwright Jonathan Harvey’s favourite things – so perhaps it was only a matter of time before he answered...

It’s lunchtime in the Royal Court rehearsal room and Lindzi Germain and Keddy Sutton are pondering whether they would make good nuns. “I...

Liverpool playwright Barbara Phillips is making her main stage debut at Liverpool’s Royal Court this week with a new lottery-inspired...

Few would argue that Boys from the Blackstuff – given its world premiere at Liverpool’s Royal Court last autumn – turned out to be one of...

The Royal Court’s smash hit Boys From the Blackstuff is set to go into the West End. The acclaimed stage version of Alan Bleasdale’s TV...

If Lennon and McCartney were essentially (as Come Together explains) “two lads from Liverpool, friends, brought together by fate – at a...

Gerry Linford has trodden a prolific playwriting path since he won a ‘highly commended’ award at the Liverpool Hope Playwriting Prize...

Royal Court Liverpool’s smash hit production of Boys From the Blackstuff returns to the theatre this spring ahead of its London premiere...

Liverpool’s Royal Court has plans to build a new £15m ‘Sir Ken Dodd Happiness Centre’ next to the theatre. The four-storey centre,...