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Review: Around the World in 72 Days at Little LTF ***1/2
In the BBC’s recent adaptation of Jules Verne’s Around the World in 80 Days, the inept Phileas Fogg and his manservant Passpartout were...


Review: An Evening With Nana Funk at Little LTF ****
Liverpool Theatre Festival’s Little LTF has returned to St Luke’s Bombed Out Church for a second spring session showcasing new writing...


Review: Petrenko Conducts Mahler at Philharmonic Hall *****
They may not have killed a fatted calf, but there was a (sustained and deserved) standing ovation and even flowers to welcome the return...


Review: Little Wimmin at Unity Theatre ****
When an email drops into your inbox advising the show you’re about to see contains haze, flashing lights, sudden loud music and “citrus...


Review: Animal Farm at Liverpool Playhouse ****1/2
George Orwell’s allegorical tale of revolution gone bad may be almost 80 years old, but it continues to resonate strongly, not least in...


Review: Making It at Royal Court Studio ****
Fame and fortune are fickle mistresses, and trying to make it in the world of entertainment certainly isn’t for the faint-hearted. The...


Review: Anything Goes at Liverpool Empire *****
It was a smash hit in London last summer – so much so the Beeb broadcast it on television as part of its Boxing Day schedule. And now the...


Review: SIX at Liverpool Empire ****1/2
When a sextet of students from Cambridge University’s musical theatre society premiered a new undergraduate show at the Edinburgh Fringe...


Review: Sheila's Island at Liverpool Playhouse ***
They say life imitates art. In this all-female reboot of Tim Firth’s original Neville’s Island, four middle-aged, middle-income, middle...


Review: All American at Philharmonic Hall ****
Bells, bass clarinets, banjos…all that was missing was a star-spangled banner from this blazing ‘all American’ night at the Phil led by...
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