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Billy Elliot dances in to the Liverpool Empire
It’s the tale of a miner’s son whose talent for dancing take him all the way from County Durham to the Royal Ballet School. But when the...


Review: The Government Inspector at LIPA ***
Nikolai Gogol’s cautionary tale of small town greed and corruption in Tsarist Russia may be almost 200 years old. But it’s also a...


Everyman premiere for Lizzie Nunnery's The Sum
The Liverpool Everyman Rep company is about to open its fourth play of the inaugural season at Hope Street. And after a musical, a...


Hundreds of hopefuls at Liverpool Cilla auditions
The actress who wins the role of Cilla in a new stage musical about the Liverpool singer’s rise to fame will need to combine confidence...


The Damned United continues new Unity Theatre season
First it was a novel. Then it was a film, starring the shapeshifting Welsh actor Michael Sheen. And now David Peace’s The Damned United,...


Made in Dagenham the Musical at LIPA ***1/2
The story of the feisty Ford seamstresses and their 1968 fight for equal pay became a box office winner when the film of Made in Dagenham...


Review: A Misummer Night's Dream at the Epstein Theatre ****
A Midsummer Night’s Dream remains one of the best-loved of Shakespeare’s plays. Magic, sprites, comedy, star-crossed (or for much of the...


Pitch black comedy at Liverpool's Royal Court
The Lonesome West (Credit L1 Photography) Fans of Martin McDonough's In Bruges will know just how deliciously dark his comedy is. And...


LIPA actors strike the right note with Made in Dagenham
Back in 1968, Ford's Dagenham plant was brought to a standstill in a dispute that had widespread implications - and is still sadly...


Review: The Story Giant at Liverpool Everyman ****
When you’re a child, time seems to go on forever. Whereas when you become an adult, the world appears to spin ever faster. Consider this....
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