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Review: Stella at the Unity Theatre ****

You wait for one show starring Pete Best and then two come along together. The real Best is appearing on stage at the Epstein in...

Getting a new musical off the ground isn’t for the faint-hearted. For every Hamilton or Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, there’s a...

If you feel the earth move under your feet in Liverpool next week it won’t be an earthquake – just the arrival of the seismic stage...

Chester Storyhouse is preparing for its second summer season of shows which will play at the striking former cinema venue. Steven...

You can’t stop the beat at the Empire this week – but then why would you want to when a show is as much glorious fun as Hairspray?...

Stabbings, poisonings, gang warfare….400 years after his own death, Shakespeare proves it’s plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose when...

Matthew Bourne’s work has always been inspired by the silver screen – not least The Red Shoes, which he brought to the Empire 12 months...

Seven years ago, a teenage Rebecca Mendoza was in the audience when her favourite musical Hairspray came to the Liverpool Empire. Now the...

“When I see a film of a ship being launched, for some reason I tear up,” says Sting. “I can’t explain why. “There’s something about the...

Ria Jones’s Sunset Boulevard ‘journey’ is almost worth a play itself. The actress was the first to perform the Andrew Lloyd Webber...