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Review: Stella at the Unity Theatre ****

Sir Ian McKellen is celebrating his 80th birthday with a fundraising tour of the UK – including two nights at the Liverpool Playhouse....

Mirror Mirror on the wall, what’s the best Christmas show of them all? With so many festive offerings heading this way it’s almost...

On the face of it, Alice Sebold’s complex 2002 novel about love, life – and death – doesn’t appear to be the easiest story to convert...

The most famous ship in the world was conceived in Liverpool for a Liverpool company – and had Liverpool written on her stern. But the...

First it was a pulsating ‘Christmas disco’ musical warming up the chilly surroundings of The Dome at Grand Central with its Seventies...

Remember Anthology, the series of immersive promenade performances created by the Everyman in conjunction with Slung Low Theatre Company?...

Many venues now precede their show with tannoy requests to turn off your mobile phone, or a stern warning about no photography. But at...

The 1980s were bookended by two great cinematic slices of audience wish-fulfilment. One was in 1987 when Patrick Swayze opined that...

Cyprus is the mythical birthplace of Aphrodite – Greek goddess of love. But where there’s love there’s also hate, as Shakespeare’s brutal...

They’re billing it as the ‘happiest musical around’. And Liverpool audiences are about to see if Summer Holiday is as bright and sunny as...