Blood Brothers is a powerful and gripping musical drama from Merseyside-born writer Willy Russell. The show deals with the impact of social class on the lives of a single mother and her twin boys - Mickey and Eddie whjo grow up on opposite sides of the class divide in Liverpool during the 1960s and 1970s. Blood Brothers is an emotionally intense and powerful story taking us to both sides of the class fence, and ultimately brings home the futility of the class struggle.

Willy Russell first wrote Blood Brothers for a school performance in 1981 but it wasn't until 1987, after it's first short run in the west end when producer Bill Kenwright resurrected the Show that it toured the UK for a year under his adaptation of the work, before opening at the Albery Theatre (now the Noel Coward Theatre) in the West End during 1988. In 1991 Blood Brothers moved to the Phoenix Theatre- its present day home on Charing Cross Road. It is now up among the longest running musicals to grace the West End stage.