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Liverpool Fringe Festival 2025 full programme details
Liverpool Fringe Festival returns to city theatre spaces next week with 20 shows and events over its 12-day run. The annual festival...


Unity Theatre presents packed autumn 2025 season of shows
Liverpool’s Unity Theatre has unveiled its new autumn season programme with a wealth of performances and events planned between now and...


Liverpool Empire going Back to the Future
Back to the Future the Musical is heading for Liverpool as part of its inaugural tour – but fans will have to be patient as it won’t be...


Liverpool boxing legend John Conteh takes centre stage at Royal Court
Liverpool boxing legend John Conteh takes centre stage in a new drama set to come to the city’s Royal Court next spring. Conteh, written...


Syncopated storytelling premieres at Liverpool Playhouse Studio this September
Liverpool Playhouse Studio is hosting the world premiere next month of an ‘intoxicating’ new two-hander which fuses music and...


Beatle matriarchs take centre stage in new play at Liverpool's Unity
December 1961 was an eventful one for four lads from Liverpool. The month started with a meeting in the office at NEMS in Whitechapel...


Review: Footloose at the Liverpool Empire ****
Footloose, in its original – exhilarating – film incarnation emerged as part of a collection of adolescent movies in the mid-80s (my own...


Review: Sauce and Sorcery at the Royal Court Studio ***
The Royal Court Studio has become one of the main spaces in Liverpool to showcase new work – not least from the playwrights who is...


Review: The Legend of Rooney's Ring at Liverpool's Royal Court ***1/2
It’s become part of Scouse folklore. So it was perhaps inevitable the (tallish) tale of the time a teenage Coleen McLoughlin chucked her...


New Brighton date for The Shawshank Redemption
The Shawshank Redemption was nominated for seven Oscars when it hit our cinema screens in 1994. Now the prison drama is coming to the...
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