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Review: Wicked at the Liverpool Empire *****
When Wicked landed in Liverpool for the first time a decade ago, the equivalent of one in seven of the city’s population came out to see...


Sisters of Mersey promise divine new comedy at the Royal Court
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 Empire to Let the People Sing in centenary year
The first amateur production of Les Miserables in the northwest will be staged at the Liverpool Empire next year as part of the theatre’s...


Review: Tell me How it Ends at Liverpool Everyman ****
When the full, deadly and terrifying reality of HIV and AIDS started to become widely known during the 1980s, many lesbians stepped up in...


Review: Twelfth Night at Shakespeare North Playhouse ****
Not Too Tame positions itself as ‘great night out specialists’ with high-octane storytelling at the heart of everything it does....


Review: Mind Mangler at Liverpool Empire ****1/2
Necessity may be the mother of invention, but it’s disaster which really fires the imagination of Mischief Theatre’s merry pranksters....


Everyman exhibition celebrates seminal artistic director
An exhibition celebrating the work and influence of the late Liverpool Everyman artistic director Alan Dossor is being staged at the...


Bring It On at Liverpool Empire this summer
The Liverpool Empire’s Youth Theatre are bringing a bit of Broadway to Lime Street this summer. The talented teenagers and young actors...


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


Review: Drop the Dead Donkey: The Reawakening! at Liverpool Playhouse ****
Soon after I joined the Echo 20-odd years ago, its then editor asked me if I had any media role models. I didn’t, but felt I had to say...
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