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Review: Hairspray at Liverpool Empire *****
Traditionally summer was a time when theatres closed their doors with their audiences lured away to seaside resorts or sunnier climes....


Review: Bring it On the Musical at Liverpool Empire ***
Cheerleading always feels like one of those peculiarly American things – right there with Spring Break, glee clubs, sorority houses and...


Review: An Officer and a Gentleman at Liverpool Empire ***
If you were asked to nominate a classic cinematic moment from the 1980s, what would you choose? Nobody putting Baby in the corner at...


Liverpool Empire run for Boys From the Blackstuff
A celebrated production of Alan Bleasdale’s seminal Boys From the Blackstuff returns to Liverpool in 2025 – but this time it is set to be...


Blood Brothers returns to Liverpool Empire in 2025
Liverpool’s best-loved musical is set to return to the Empire stage in 2025 as the Lime Street theatre celebrates its centenary. Blood...


Review: Wicked at the Liverpool Empire *****
When Wicked landed in Liverpool for the first time a decade ago, the equivalent of one in seven of the city’s population came out to see...


Liverpool Empire to Let the People Sing in centenary year
The first amateur production of Les Miserables in the northwest will be staged at the Liverpool Empire next year as part of the theatre’s...


Review: Mind Mangler at Liverpool Empire ****1/2
Necessity may be the mother of invention, but it’s disaster which really fires the imagination of Mischief Theatre’s merry pranksters....


Bring It On at Liverpool Empire this summer
The Liverpool Empire’s Youth Theatre are bringing a bit of Broadway to Lime Street this summer. The talented teenagers and young actors...


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...
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