Review: I Wish My Life Were Like a Musical at Liverpool Theatre Festival *****
Liverpool Theatre Festival started life back in 2020 to support the city’s live performance and creative arts sector which – like so much else – had been decimated by the pandemic. Three years, several lockdowns and numerous Covid strains later, the third (now award-winning) annual festival is underway, opening coincidentally on the same day the Covid alert was downgraded to its lowest level yet. While the physical threat from the virus may have receded, theatre and other ven