Review: Dream Team at Philharmonic Hall ****1/2
All eyes are on Liverpool this week, with the joyful Eurovision juggernaut reaching a crazy, camp, celebratory climax tomorrow night down...
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Review: The Ocean at the End of the Lane at Liverpool Empire ****1/2
“Where does imagination stop, and memory begin?” asks the magical matriarch of the mysterious Hempstock family near the start of Neil...
Review: Twice Nightly at Royal Court Studio ****
Ahhh, the smell of the greasepaint…the roar of the crowd. Treading the boards is an addictive, if precarious way to make a living, as the...
Review: Macbeth at Liverpool Playhouse ***1/2
Lancaster-based theatre company imitating the dog has become a regular visitor to the Playhouse over the past few years, bringing with it...
Review: The Commitments at Liverpool Empire ***1/2
More than 30 years after he first created it, Roddy Doyle’s tale of a band rising from the grimy streets of Dublin’s North Side, burning...
Review: Martha, Me and My Family at Unity Theatre ****1/2
It’s not particularly easy to find the positives in a pandemic which has decimated lives, communities and economies. But it’s probably...
Review: Richard III at Liverpool Playhouse ****
Four years ago, Adjoa Andoh directed and starred in an all-Black women cast Richard II at the Globe which mused on what it means to be...
Review: Great Britain at LIPA ***1/2
Richard ‘One Man, Two Guvnors’ Bean penned Great Britain against the backdrop of the News of the World phone hacking trials of a decade...
Review: Beethoven's Eroica at Philharmonic Hall****1/2
There are some concert programmes that send you home with a smile – and this foray into the sound worlds of Barber, Beethoven and the...
Review: Cosmic at Royal Court Studio ***1/2
There have always been conspiracy theories and people happy to believe them, but the rise of the internet – and, in recent times, being...
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