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Up Next Festival returns to the Unity Theatre this month

Jonathan Harvey’s hotly anticipated new play Our Lady of Blundellsands was dealt a blow when its premiere run was cut cruelly short by...

Is there such a thing as a perfect crime? That’s the question posed by Frederick Knott’s play Dial M for Murder which its writer then...

Liverpool’s Hope Street Theatre is reopening its doors this autumn after being dark for 18 months because of the Covid pandemic. The...

Magic and illusion has always included the risk of going wrong – and perhaps it’s that frisson of jeopardy that adds an extra...

Liverpool-based theatre troupe Teatro Pomodoro brings its Sirens, Men and Crabs to the Unity Theatre next month – more than a year after...

“Welcome to the show – she’s not here, but you are,” says Sarah-Louise Young at the start of an evening that Kate Bush could well have...

Mark Davies Markham has form when it comes to harnessing pop music and pop culture as a backdrop for his stories. The Liverpool...

Liverpool’s Ticket to Write festival returns to the Hope Street Theatre this autumn with four new plays being staged over two days. The...

Bullying, sexism, bulimia, homophobia, gun violence, alienation, and talk about suicide – granted it’s not your average night out at the...

Smash hit musical favourite Hairspray returns to the Liverpool Empire next week. Even Covid can’t stop the beat, with the show – on a...