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The £10,000 Liverpool Hope Playwriting Prize returns
The Liverpool Hope Playwriting Prize is back for a third time – and with one of the biggest first prizes in the country. The winner of...


Liverpool panto debut for Strictly's Shirley Ballas
Strictly Come Dancing head judge Shirley Ballas will be waltzing in to the Liverpool Empire to make her panto debut this Christmas. The...


Review: Summer Holiday at Liverpool Empire **1/2
Summer holidays are weighed with expectations. We save hard to be able to go away and as a result we want it to be memorable, fun, and...


LIPA's Red and Black takes theatre on to the streets
LIPA students have joined forces with Slung Low Theatre Company to create a special promenade performance being staged in the city this...


Review: Bestbeat at the Unity Theatre ***
Sir Paul McCartney may have been at the Palace this week being made a Companion of Honour by Her Majesty. But in Liverpool this spring...


Review: Lennon's Banjo at the Epstein Theatre ***1/2
You need deep pockets if you want to own a key piece of Beatle-related memorabilia – and amazingly even now there are still items coming...


Review: Agatha Christie's Love From a Stranger at Liverpool Playhouse ***1/2
Anyone who has ever worried their friend has got involved with a wrong’un will watch Love From a Stranger with a mounting sense of...


Review: A Clockwork Orange at Liverpool Everyman ***1/2
It seems incredible that it’s taken 30 years for Anthony Burgess’s own live version of his best-known work to be brought to the stage....


Review: The Rainbow Connection at Royal Court Downstairs ****
Liverpool writer Joanne Sherryden’s bittersweet tragi-comedy was last staged at the Unity five years ago. And like its fellow theatre in...


Review: Hard Times at Liverpool Playhouse ***1/2
Roll up roll up for Northern Broadsides’ latest visit to Liverpool, with a new production – a fresh version of Dickens’ Hard Times – and...
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