Grosvenor Park Open Air Theatre, Chester : Arts production company Chester Performs returns to Grosvenor Park for a fourth summer season, with additional seating that turns the terraced venu…
Royal Court, Liverpool : First staged by Hull Truck in 2005, Amanda Whittington's likeable comedy about a group of working women having a boozy beano at the races has enjoyed a charmed …
Liverpool Unity Theatre: Northern Spirit is on wondrous mission: to counter corny cliches about life in the north of England by celebrating life as it is lived. Instead of an everyday existe…
Oldham Coliseum : "Inside every woman there's a blonde bombshell trying to get out," war-time band leader Betty tells naive new recruit Liz near the end of Alan Plater's …
Royal Court, Liverpool: Long before Scot Williams' new psychodrama reaches its surprising conclusion there's a scene where a character describes the meaning of the word "hope&…
Octagon Theatre, Bolton: Embarking on a tour of studio venues in the North West and South West of England, the latest in Box of Tricks Theatre's Word:Play series takes six 'emergin…
Liverpool Playhouse : There's a rare theatrical synergy at Liverpool Playhouse, where artistic director Gemma Bodinetz and popular poet Roger McGough have formed a sort of spiritual bon…
Crucible Studio Theatre, Sheffield: Water cooler politics are hung out to dry in Mike Bartlett's short, slick and emotionally unflinching new play in which two members of a sales team f…
Octagon Theatre, Bolton: A combination of the Octagon's in-the-round intimacy and cladding the auditorium walls with wood fencing not only corrals the audience within a ranch-style encl…
Liverpool Empire: With gleaming costumes, sparkly decor, scintillating choreography and shining performances throughout, this has got to be pantomime at its most glittering. Read the full r…
Epstein, Liverpool : The first pantomime at the recently refurbished former Neptune Theatre contains all the traditional fairytale elements and plenty of saucy hilarity - but is so overwritt…
Middleton Arena, Rochdale: The show almost didn't go on when the company scheduled to fill Middleton Arena's Christmas slot suddenly withdrew two weeks before opening night. Fortun…
Royal Court Liverpool: Take the spoofiness of Young Frankenstein. Add the zombie zaniness of Shaun of the Dead. Mix in dollops of Scouse humour. The result is a festive fright night packed w…
Liverpool Playhouse Studio: "It's mundane, but completely shattering," says David to his brother Simon while raging at the insanity of their mother Mary's descent into th…
Liverpool Playhouse: Biting and satirical, Ben Jonson's expose of the human capacity for self-deception probably had Jacobean audiences rolling in the aisles. Today, too much exposure t…