Theatre

Matilda the Musical comes to Liverpool Empire for Christmas 2025

Multi-award-winning smash hit musical Matilda is coming to the Liverpool Empire for Christmas 2025. The Royal Shakespeare Company...

Jason Donovan joins Rocky Horror at Liverpool this Christmas

Jason Donovan will join the cast for the opening of the Rocky Horror Show at the Liverpool Playhouse this Christmas. The actor and singer...

Review: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang at the Liverpool Empire *****

With a scrumptious Sherman Brothers score, a faithful flying car and an enjoyably malevolent baddie, the stage version of Chitty Chitty...

Review: Birdsong at Liverpool Playhouse ***1/2

It’s nearly a decade – in fact pretty much the length of two Great Wars laid end to end – since the stage adaptation of Sebastian Faulks’...

Review: The Lodger at the Unity Theatre ****

Home is where the heart is. There’s no place like home. And, as Maya Angelou noted, the ache for home lives in all of us. That ache is at...

NYE 2024 events in Liverpool

Liverpool venues are set to help revellers see in the New Year this December with a host of entertainment and events. Whether you want to...

Review: Girls Don't Play Guitars at Liverpool's Royal Court ****1/2

When Ian Salmon’s Girls Don’t Play Guitars was first staged at the Royal Court back in 2019, few people had heard of The Liverbirds or...

Liverpool Black History month 2024 events

Events, exhibitions, activities and performances are taking place across Liverpool to mark this year’s Black History Month which runs...

Girl's Don't Play Guitars writer on the return of the hit show

Standing among his fellow shortlisted competitors, Ian Salmon was willing his name NOT to be mentioned as the inaugural Liverpool Hope...

Liverpool Fringe Festival 2024 full programme and venues

Liverpool Fringe Festival opens next week with this year’s event featuring more than 20 shows over 12 days. The festival, now in its...

Review: The Lieutenant of Inishmore at Liverpool Everyman ****1/2

There’s a lengthy advisory for The Lieutenant of Inishmore – Liverpool Everyman’s brutally funny new production marking the theatre’s...

Review: 101 Dalmatians at Liverpool Empire ****

Dodie Smith loved Dalmatians. Reports vary, but it’s thought while the author didn’t quite get to 101, she certainly had at least nine at...

Review: Peaky Blinders The Redemption of Thomas Shelby at Liverpool Empire ****1/2

Liverpool has a special place in the Peaky Blinders story – it’s here where substantial portions of the early series were filmed, the...