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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...


Review: 42nd Street at Liverpool Empire ****1/2
The unemployment statistics for Depression Era America make for grim reading, and 1933 was its ‘annus horribilis’ (to borrow a phrase...


Review: Legally Blonde at Liverpool Empire ****
They say you should never work with children or animals – but this effervescent Empire Youth Theatre production of hit musical Legally...
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