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Review: Mother Goose at Liverpool Empire ****
Christmas may be fast receding in the rear-view mirror of memory. But although we’re no longer in traditional panto season, Liverpool...


Review: The King and I at Liverpool Empire ****
A lot has happened since the Lincoln Center Theater’s lavish-looking production of The King and I last swept on to the stage at the...


Review: Mozart's Requiem at Philharmonic Hall ****1/2
In recent years the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic has applied itself to highlighting and celebrating talented women composers whose work...


Review: Faustus That Damned Woman at Storyhouse ****
If you were given infinite power and a century in which to wield it, what would you do? In Marlowe and Goethe’s versions of the Faustus...


Review: The Verdict at New Brighton Floral Pavilion ****
Courtroom dramas have a long history on film Think To Kill a Mockingbird, A Few Good Men, Runaway Jury, Witness for the Prosecution and...


Review: Bugsy Malone at Liverpool Empire ****
Alan Parker’s colourful confection of gangsters and showgirls has entertained generations of youngsters since it burst on to the big...


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...


Review: Domingo Hindoyan and VÃkingur 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...
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