Theatre

Peaky Blinders head for the Liverpool Empire in 2024

Those Peaky Blinders are returning to Liverpool – this time in an acclaimed dance-theatre production which is set to come to the Empire...

Liverpool Fringe Festival returns to city venues for 2023

Liverpool Fringe Festival returns next month with an 11-day programme of performances in spaces across the city centre and beyond. The...

Review: Boys From the Blackstuff at Liverpool's Royal Court *****

In the autumn of 1982, the UK’s official unemployment figure stood at almost three million. Liverpool accounted for more than 96,000 of...

Review: I, Daniel Blake at Liverpool Playhouse ****

“All we need is some bloody common sense here,” points out a frustrated Daniel Blake in an early encounter with the machinery of...

I Am Steven Gerrard to premiere at Hope Street in 2024

An award-winning one man play which explores the complexities of masculinity, and what it means to be a real man in society today will be...

Mexico Disaster to inspire new Lottery-backed play

A new play about the Mexico Disaster which claimed the lives of 27 Lancashire lifeboat crew will be developed with support from the...

Liverpool Empire welcomes Disney's Aladdin for Christmas 2024

Disney’s Aladdin is coming to the Liverpool Empire for Christmas….2024. The spectacular Broadway and West End musical will visit the Lime...

St Helens Theatre Royal tells tall stories this half term

St Helens Theatre Royal is promising a giant adventure for young theatregoers and their families next month. The venue will stage the...

First Folio celebrations at Shakespeare North Playhouse

A rare copy of the Bard’s First Folio is going on display at Shakespeare North Playhouse this autumn to mark the 400th anniversary of its...

First casting announced for Wizard of Oz at Liverpool Empire this Christmas

JLS star Aston Merrygold will appear as the Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz at the Liverpool Empire this Christmas. The show, which is coming...

Review: Macbeth at Shakespeare North Playhouse ***

There’s certainly food for thought – albeit with a side order of frustration - in ETT’s new touring production of Macbeth, premiering at...

Review: Cuckoo at Liverpool Everyman ****

It was watching shows at the Liverpool Everyman which first fired a passion for theatre in the heart of a Birkenhead teenager called...

Review: 42nd Street at Liverpool Empire ****1/2

The unemployment statistics for Depression Era America make for grim reading, and 1933 was its ‘annus horribilis’ (to borrow a phrase...