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Review: The Book of Will at Shakespeare North Playhouse ****1/2
It’s easy to take Shakespeare for granted. The man and his works have always been there as a presence in our lives – both on stage and in...


Review: The Year 1905 at Philharmonic Hall *****
The crackle of guns, the doleful tolling of bells. Shostakovich may not have been there in person (he was born the following year) but in...


Review: Peter Pan Goes Wrong at Liverpool Empire ****1/2
Mischief Theatre’s deliciously catastrophic live performances have won them legions of fans and plenty of awards since they staged their...


Review: The Incident Room at Royal Court Studio ****1/2
Between October 1975 and January 1981, fear stalked the streets of towns and cities across Yorkshire and beyond as the serial killer...


Review: Tony! (The Tony Blair rock opera) at Liverpool Playhouse ****
“Neither Tony Blair, the Tony Blair Institute not any other person featured in this production have endorsed the production,” states a...


Review: Boys From the Blackstuff at Liverpool's Royal Court *****
In the autumn of 1982, the UK’s official unemployment figure stood at almost three million. Liverpool accounted for more than 96,000 of...


Review: Season Opening Concert at Philharmonic Hall *****
Does the world speed up as you get older? Tempus has certainly fugit since Domingo Hindoyan first arrived at Hope Street – and remarkably...


Review: I, Daniel Blake at Liverpool Playhouse ****
“All we need is some bloody common sense here,” points out a frustrated Daniel Blake in an early encounter with the machinery of...


Review: Macbeth at Shakespeare North Playhouse ***
There’s certainly food for thought – albeit with a side order of frustration - in ETT’s new touring production of Macbeth, premiering at...


Review: Cuckoo at Liverpool Everyman ****
It was watching shows at the Liverpool Everyman which first fired a passion for theatre in the heart of a Birkenhead teenager called...
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