Review: Unsolicited at Royal Court Studio ***1/2
It was 10.30pm and there was a woman at the stop seeing her friend safely on to the bus I had just stepped off after returning from the...
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Review: Domingo Hindoyan and Víkingur Ólafsson at Philharmonic Hall ****1/2
It was supposed to be the return to the Liverpool stage of Daniel Barenboim after a 50-year absence, in a performance conducted by the...
Review: Girl from the North Country at Liverpool Empire ****1/2
Playwright Conor McPherson has spent his career placing disparate characters in isolated or bleak settings (bedsits, seaside suburbs, a...
Review: Dreamgirls at Liverpool Empire ****
Twelve months after its Christmas residency, Dreamgirls is back at the Empire for the final hurrah of its inaugural UK tour – and if the...
Review: Jack and the Beanstalk at Hope Street Theatre ****
Fe fi fo fum, something seasonally silly this way comes. There are tall stories, and then there’s Jack and the Beanstalk, the improbable...
Review: Spirit of Christmas at Philharmonic Hall ****1/2
God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen may not be on the programme for 2022, but the RLPO’s Spirit of Christmas concerts certainly spread comfort...
Review: Goldilocks and the Three Bears at Epstein Theatre ****
Panto season is packed with fairy godmothers, sleeping princesses, diminutive miners, magic carpets and improbable runaway vegetation. So...
Review: White Christmas at Liverpool Empire ****
It’s usually snow which throws plans into disarray – but it’s the lack of the cold, fluffy stuff which causes the biggest headache for...
Review: Cinderella at the Floral Pavilion ***1/2
Is there anything more evocative of (and peculiarly distinctive about) a British Christmas than a theatre full of children screaming ‘oh...
Review: Red Riding Hood at Liverpool Everyman ***
The Everyman’s rock ‘n’ roll panto has become a Christmas tradition for many Liverpool theatregoers, and just like the Royal Court down...
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