theatre | artscityliverpool 30/77

Review: Two at Shakespeare North Playhouse ***1/2

Between them they may have gone on to give the world Jesus Christ Superstar, Phantom, Evita, Chess and The Lion King (to name just a...

A new verbatim play about loneliness will be staged at the Unity Theatre this month. Flood Theatre brings Touch to the Hope Place venue...

Liverpool’s Epstein Theatre has a new manager. Anthony Proctor is taking over the post at the grade II listed Hanover Street venue which...

Poet Laureate Simon Armitage has been working with LIPA students to bring to life an epic 4000-year-old poem. Gilgamesh will be staged as...

Power, patriarchy, privilege and the politics of capitalism combine in Chloe Moss’s compelling and claustrophobic new play on deck at the...

Jim Cartwright’s much-loved, award-winning tale about finding your voice turns the big 30 this year. And while some elements of the play...

Over the last two decades Liverpool has started to make a conscious effort to confront its slave trading past – from the city council’s...

Waitress may contain enough sugar to turn an auditorium diabetic, but it’s not simply a toothachingly sweet musical confection. Based on...

A comedy about a politician’s extreme bid to cling on to power has won this year’s Liverpool Hope Playwriting Prize. Cardiff-based...

Mike Noble has been around the Liverpool theatre scene since he was born – so it’s a surprise to find out he has never appeared on stage...