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Review: The King and I at Liverpool Empire ****1/2
The King and I comes from a particularly lavish era of the musical – both in terms of big, beautiful melodies and the sheer size and...


Review: SIX at Liverpool Playhouse ****1/2
It’s the mnemonic that’s been chanted by generations of schoolchildren – divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived. But just...


Review: Petrenko's Mahler II at Liverpool Philharmonic ****1/2
It was voted one of the greatest symphonies of all time in a poll of more than 150 conductors. And you can see why Mahler’s mighty...


Review: Blue Stockings at Storyhouse ****
Cambridge University may have nurtured some of the most exceptional minds in history, but at the end of the 19th century it was still...


Review: Matthew Bourne's The Red Shoes at Liverpool Empire *****
Outside in Lime Street, the façade of St George’s Hall was glowing red. Simply an illuminating coincidence, or did they know Matthew...


Review: Band of Gold at the Floral Pavilion ***1/2
It’s a quarter of a century now since Kay Mellor’s hard-hitting, thought-provoking drama Band of Gold burst on to unsuspecting TV...


Review: The Strange Tale of Charlie Chaplin and Stan Laurel at Unity Theatre ****1/2
We all know about Stan and Ollie. But what about Stan and Charlie? In the early 1900s the two future big screen superstars were both...


Review: Night of the Living Dead - Remix at Liverpool Playhouse ****
Lights, camera, actors…. Imitating the dog applies its trademark multimedia theatrical approach to the zombie apocalypse in what is...


Review: On Your Feet! at Liverpool Empire ***1/2
Back in the mid-80s a new sound hit British dancefloors – and the singles charts – with an infectiously funky Latin rhythmed dance number...


Review: Sheku and Isata Kanneh-Mason at Philharmonic Hall ****
This Sunday night recital concert was originally planned for the intimate confines of the Phil’s Music Room. But such has been the...
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