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Review: Magic Goes Wrong at Liverpool Empire ***1/2
Magic and illusion has always included the risk of going wrong – and perhaps it’s that frisson of jeopardy that adds an extra...


An Evening Without Kate Bush at Liverpool Theatre Festival *****
“Welcome to the show – she’s not here, but you are,” says Sarah-Louise Young at the start of an evening that Kate Bush could well have...


Review: 2Gorgeous4U at Liverpool Theatre Festival ****
Mark Davies Markham has form when it comes to harnessing pop music and pop culture as a backdrop for his stories. The Liverpool...


Review: Heathers the Musical at Liverpool Empire ****
Bullying, sexism, bulimia, homophobia, gun violence, alienation, and talk about suicide – granted it’s not your average night out at the...


Review: Love, Liverpool at the Playhouse ****
The last 18 months of pandemic has spurred many of us to re-evaluate what is important to us and what we want from our lives. And as our...


Review: Sleepover at Unity Theatre ****
Ever dream of being 14 or 15 again? A simpler time when life seemed to revolve around boys, bands, burgeoning breasts and - in the case...


Review: Support Your Local Library - The Rock Opera! at Little LTF ***1/2
Twenty years ago, a young Liverpudlian called Keith Carter arrived on the city’s comedy club scene, introducing the world to his singular...


This Skin of Mine at Little LTF ***
Little LTF – the younger sibling of the main Liverpool Theatre Festival – aims to showcase bright new writing and its inaugural programme...


Review: A Brief Conversation About the Inevitability of Love at Little LTF ***1/2
Last September’s Liverpool Theatre Festival was a welcome, bright light in the impenetrable gloom cast over the industry by the...


Review: Vasily Petrenko RLPO farewell concert *****
And so, farewell Vasily Eduardovich Petrenko, no longer ‘Liverpool’s latest signing’ but off to pastures new after 15 years at Hope...
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