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Liverpool Empire date for The King and I tour
The Broadway and West End smash hit version of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The King and I is on its way to the Liverpool Empire as part of...


Review: A Christmas Carol at Liverpool Playhouse ****
Hi-jinks on the high seas (Moby Dick), Greek tragedy meets David Bowie spandex (Oedipussy) and a bloody journey through the complete...


Review: Snow White at the Epstein Theatre ***
Never mind Brexit. For those of a certain age, the real division happened on Saturday mornings and was between Team Swap Shop and Team...


Louis Emerick on playing panto's biggest baddie at St Helens
There are baddies – and then there are real unreformed baddies according to Louis Emerick who is donning evil-looking iron work and...


Strictly judge Shirley Ballas on her Liverpool Empire panto debut
“When I told my son I was going to do panto, he went ‘oh lordy, Liverpool – hold on to your hats!’” laughs Shirley Ballas. Strictly’s...


Calendar Girls reveal all ahead of Liverpool Empire visit
Twenty years ago, the members of a small Yorkshire Women’s Institute produced a nude calendar that attracted global attention - and...


Liverpool Empire date for Les Miserables tour
Can you hear the people sing? Because Liverpool is set to welcome Les Misérables in 2019. The multi award-winning musical will come to...


Review: Benidorm Live at Liverpool Empire ****
Benidorm the series may have finally taken its towel off the ITV sun lounger and headed for home. But it seems its spirit lives on – in...


Review: They Don't Pay? We Won't Pay! at Liverpool Playhouse ***
Ten years ago this week, Northern Broadsides staged Dario Fo’s Accidental Death of an Anarchist at the Liverpool Playhouse. The play was...


Sharon Small talks Still Alice ahead of its Liverpool Playhouse run
When Still Alice was premiered at Every Third Minute - a festival of theatre, dementia and hope – in Leeds earlier this year one man came...
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