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Review: The Time Traveller's Wife at Storyhouse ***1/2
Audrey Niffenegger’s unconventional love story of a time travelling librarian and his soulmate has evoked powerful responses from readers...


Review: The Importance of Being Earnest at Liverpool Playhouse ***1/2
The Importance of Being Earnest remains perhaps Oscar Wilde’s greatest play. Of course, we don’t know what he might have trumped it with....


Review: Othello at Liverpool Playhouse ****
Frantic Assembly’s robust retelling of Othello has gone back to the pub for a third round of drinks, aggro and futile bloodshed. The...


Ian McKellen brings Mother Goose to Liverpool Empire in 2023
Sir Ian McKellen is set to appear in a new panto version of Mother Goose which is coming to the Liverpool Empire in the New Year. John...


Liverpool Irish Festival celebrates its 20th Anniversary
Liverpool Irish Festival celebrates its 20th anniversary this month with a packed programme of events at venues across the city. The...


Review: A Billion Times I Love You at Liverpool Everyman ****
Patrick Maguire’s intensely realised love story A Billion Times I Love You won the new writing award at last year’s Homotopia Festival....


BlackFest 2022 returns to Liverpool venues this autumn
BlackFest returns this autumn with a packed programme of performances and workshops planned over the month-long event. The award-winning...


Wartime whodunit comes to Liverpool Royal Court
Liverpool’s Royal Court is at the heart of a wartime whodunit this autumn when it premieres its new show The Scousetrap. The production,...


Review: Julie, Madly, Deeply at Liverpool Theatre Festival ****
In the week when we've lost real royalty, Julie, Madly, Deeply – written and performed by Sarah-Louise Young - gives the Liverpool...


Review: The Osmonds: A New Musical at Liverpool Empire ***1/2
They were, perhaps, the original boy band – and in the 1970s Osmondmania swept Liverpool just as it did nearly every other place in the...
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