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Review: Mind Mangler at Liverpool Empire ****1/2

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but it’s disaster which really fires the imagination of Mischief Theatre’s merry pranksters....

Review: Drop the Dead Donkey: The Reawakening! at Liverpool Playhouse ****

Soon after I joined the Echo 20-odd years ago, its then editor asked me if I had any media role models. I didn’t, but felt I had to say...

Review: Showstopper! at Liverpool Playhouse ****1/2

Over on social media, everyone is raving about 42 Balloons – the uplifting new musical doing brisk business down the road at the Lowry....

Review: The Independent Socialist Republic of... at Royal Court Studio ***

If a week is deemed a long time in politics, then the five years since parts of the traditional northern Red Wall ‘turned blue’ is surely...

Review: Life of Pi at Liverpool Empire ****1/2

First it was a book, then a film. But Yann Martel’s allegorical tale of a shipwrecked Indian teenager adrift in the Pacific with only a...

Review: Alberga and Shostakovich at Philharmonic Hall ****1/2

When Kazakh Alim Beisembayev won the Leeds International Piano Competition three years ago, part of his extensive prize package was the...

Review: The Legend of Ned Ludd at Liverpool Everyman ****

Times may change, centuries may pass, politics may intrude and geographical locations may shape it, but work, that exchange of time and...

Review: I Should be So Lucky at Liverpool Empire ***1/2

The number and range of jukebox musicals has exploded since they first became a fixture of the theatrical scene – and particularly over...

Review: Sheku Kanneh-Mason performs Weinberg at Philharmonic Hall ****1/2

While Philharmonic Hall has, it seems, become a happy home-from-home for several of the talented Kanneh-Mason family over the past few...

Review: 2:22 A Ghost Story at Liverpool Empire ***

It seems we humans have always loved to scare ourselves – and each other. From tales of spirits told around the fire in ancient times to...