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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...


Review: Explorations at Philharmonic Hall ****
The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic has a reputation for commissioning new work and Hope Street audiences have become used to world...


Review: The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel at Liverpool Playhouse ****
First it was a best-selling book (titled These Foolish Things), then a hit film, followed by a reality TV series populated by a cohort of...


Review: The Seagull at LIPA ****
When Anton Chekhov premiered The Seagull in the autumn of 1896, it bewildered its audience whose loud dismay (they booed and hissed the...
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