Kevin Bourke

Summer’s almost over, but fret not: there’s much to look forward to with our top ten picks of the autumn theatre season. Autumn – yes, autumn – is on its...

Here are our picks from the 24:7 Theatre Festival and the Greater Manchester Fringe Festival, both unfolding over the coming month. July’s an excitingly hectic time to be a Fringe...

Dead Dog in a Suitcase (And Other Love Songs) has its premiere at Liverpool Everyman later this month: we take a look at this reinvention of a scurrilous satire. Energetically...

Maxine Peake is an actress who likes to push herself – we found out why. The joyfully intrigued reaction to the announcement that Maxine Peake was going to be starring...

Hope Place follows Twelfth Night in the newly reopened Everyman theatre’s inaugural programme. As the first piece of new writing to be staged at the reborn Liverpool Everyman, the World...

We take a look at Hidden, a play with a very modern premise. Hidden opens with a genuine surprise. It then twists and turns its way through the interweaving and...

Joseph Heller’s classic novel Catch-22 comes to Newcastle’s Northern Stage theatre. Rarely has a book written in the last hundred years penetrated public consciousness quite so comprehensively as Joseph Heller’s...

The Last Days of Troy by celebrated poet Simon Armitage includes the legend of the Trojan Horse – and brings actress and international model Lily Cole to the stage. Even...

Liverpool’s Everyman Theatre reopened on 1 March – we take a look at what happened next. “Joy” was a word you heard bandied about a lot at the reopening of...

The Royal Exchange manages to do the impossible: it turns Virginia Woolf’s “unstageable” book into a play. It is “a magical comedy about love and time travel,” claims the marketing...

As the Spanish-speaking Viva gears up for launch, we talk to the organiser of one of the north’s most specialist – yet popular – film festivals. Twenty years ago, the...

As the influential theatre gears up for reopening, and the first tickets go on sale, we take a look at what its launch season has in store. Liverpool’s historic Everyman...