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Liverpool's Royal Court stages new rags to riches comedy
Liverpool playwright Barbara Phillips is making her main stage debut at Liverpool’s Royal Court this week with a new lottery-inspired...
Review: Drop the Dead Donkey: The Reawakening! at Liverpool Playhouse ****
Soon after I joined the Echo 20-odd years ago, its then editor asked me if I had any media role models. I didn’t, but felt I had to say...
Everyman and Playhouse announces new creative director
A new creative director has been appointed to run Liverpool’s Everyman and Playhouse theatres. Nathan Powell succeeds Suba Das who...
Review: Showstopper! at Liverpool Playhouse ****1/2
Over on social media, everyone is raving about 42 Balloons – the uplifting new musical doing brisk business down the road at the Lowry....
Bluecoat to revamp venue space with Arts Council investment
The Bluecoat is to reconfigure its first-floor bistro to create a versatile new performance space after receiving a £680,000 grant from...
Review: The Independent Socialist Republic of... at Royal Court Studio ***
If a week is deemed a long time in politics, then the five years since parts of the traditional northern Red Wall ‘turned blue’ is surely...
Review: Life of Pi at Liverpool Empire ****1/2
First it was a book, then a film. But Yann Martel’s allegorical tale of a shipwrecked Indian teenager adrift in the Pacific with only a...
Liverpool Everyman launches anniversary fundraising appeal
Liverpool Everyman has launched a £60,000 fundraising appeal as part of its 60th anniversary which it hopes will highlight the importance...
Review: The Legend of Ned Ludd at Liverpool Everyman ****
Times may change, centuries may pass, politics may intrude and geographical locations may shape it, but work, that exchange of time and...
Up Next Festival play Borrowed considers bodily autonomy
A pregnant fat girl, a prejudiced health system…and a pineapple are at the heart of a new play being staged at the Unity Theatre next...
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