Review

Brad Kella launches album on Lennon piano at The Beatles Story

In the early 80s, Alan Bleasdale was a member of the Liverpool Playhouse’s ‘Gang of Four’ – the quartet who nurtured writers and new work...

Life isn’t always easy – and great children’s stories don’t shy away from covering sensitive issues and asking difficult questions....

You wait ages for one Willy Russell play – and then two come along at the same time! With Shirley Valentine back at the Everyman and...

Four decades after she first slid chips and egg on to a plate, Shirley Valentine continues to speak directly to audiences all over the...

The Liverpool Phil’s annual artist in residence programme has nurtured a host of rewarding musical partnerships – along with lasting...

Love’s Labour’s Lost, Shakespeare’s early comedy, doesn’t often get staged these days. Even the RSC only seems to return to it every...

The inspiration for a radical reimagining of Swan Lake apparently came to Matthew Bourne while he watched more traditionally staged...

With Easter being so late this year, it’s still the best part of a fortnight until the day we British know as Shrove Tuesday – and much...

Musical theatre is no stranger to a precocious protagonist – think little orphan Annie or, in more recent years, Tim Minchin’s Matilda....

It was hosting a trio of young evacuees during the Second World War which sparked the idea which eventually led to CS Lewis’ famous...