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  Review: Shed at The Liverpool Royal Court Theatre 19/04/15 Being a bloke, there is something comforting about having a space of your very own in which to chill out. For some it is an attic space, for others a Man Cave. At The Liverpool Royal Court currently, Donny has a Shed in Read more

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  Review: Dirty Dancing at The Liverpool Empire 13/04/15 With its feel good story, slick compositions, dazzling costumes, scintillating choreography and – of course – iconic movie status, everything should be in place for the stage production of Dirty Dancing, which is cur Read more

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  Royal Court To Open Shed Next Week 02/04/15 A great new comedy will open next Friday (10 April) at Royal Court Liverpool. Paul Broughton, Michael Starke and Bob Eaton have written the show which features two old friends who have known each other since childhood.T Read more

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  Liverpool ST. GEORGES HALL commemorates the memory of the Lusitania 02/04/15 On Thursday 7th May, Liverpool’s St George’s Hall will play host to a special public dinner to commemorate the memory of The Lusitania, the Liverpool ship that set sail from New York on 1 May 1915, never to arrive at Read more

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  Katie Mulgrew Wins The Liverpool Hope Playwriting Prize 02/04/15 The winning prize of £10,000 offered in the inaugural Liverpool Hope University Playwriting competition, and the possibility of having the winning play produced by The Liverpool Royal Court Theatre, has gone to the only Read more

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  Review: The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas at Liverpool Playhouse 01/04/15 There are certain topics – whilst advocating that nothing should be taboo when writing a work of fiction – that need to be handled with infinite care, and the Holocaust, and all that went with it, is just such a topi Read more

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  Review: A Midsummer Night's Dream at The Everyman, Liverpool 28/03/15 Now I know why Midsummer Night’s Dream is a comedy – I have never laughed so much as I did at the Liverpool Everyman’s latest production. No fay fairies here, just naughty spirits in bank robber face stockings and Read more

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  Review: Jesus Christ Superstar at The Empire Liverpool 25/03/15 In 1996, The Lightning Seeds, Badiel and Skinner wrote Three Lions with its catchy chorus of “It’s coming home”. Well, following its recent Really Useful production at Arenas across the globe, Jesus Christ Supersta Read more

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  Rhydian talks Superstar to PR in Liverpool 25/03/15 “To be a part of this new production is sensational and, I think that out of all the roles, playing this one is right for me.” So says Rhydian Roberts, 2007s X Factor finalist and one of the handful of contestants fr Read more

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  Dirty Dancing's Gareth Bailey Looks Forward to Performing at The Liverpool Empire 25/03/15 It is one of the most iconic movies of the 1980s, with its memorable soundtrack, brilliant choreography, recognisable “standout” lines and, understandably, the late Patrick Swayze’s buff six- pack getting a full ai Read more

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  Review: Anything Goes at The Liverpool Empire 18/03/15 You would think that a show that first saw curtain up in 1934 would be a tad dated. Not a bit of it, this latest incarnation of Cole Porter’s Anything Goes at the Liverpool Empire is a fresh as it gets. Read more

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  Review: The Three Lions at The Liverpool Playhouse 18/03/15 Stick three egos of inordinate size in a single room ahead of one of English football’s biggest dates with destiny and, rest assured, fireworks are guaranteed to fly. That’s the scenario being played out at The Liver Read more

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  Interview: Writer William Gaminara talks The 3 Lions at The Liverpool Playhouse This Week 16/03/15 William Gaminara is, undoubtedly, best known for playing Professor Leo Dalton in the hit BBC One crime series Silent Witness; a role he left in 2013 after 11 series alongside Amanda Burton, Emelia Fox and Tom Ward amongs Read more

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  Review: Twopence to Cross the Mersey at The Epstein Theatre 12/03/15 Having wowed audiences as a musical, Alternative Radio and Budgie vocalist, musician, songwriter and author Rob Fennah has decided to tell Twopence to Cross the Mersey – the story of the young, impoverished and later-t Read more

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  Preview: the 6th Annual Liverpool Improvathon at The Kazimier 11/03/15 If you go down to the woods today... you'll be sure of a big surprise! Impropriety, Liverpool's premier Improvisation Company promises to take you on a magical journey to the place where your childhood stories came fro Read more