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Review: Sauce and Sorcery at the Royal Court Studio ***
The Royal Court Studio has become one of the main spaces in Liverpool to showcase new work – not least from the playwrights who is...


Review: The Legend of Rooney's Ring at Liverpool's Royal Court ***1/2
It’s become part of Scouse folklore. So it was perhaps inevitable the (tallish) tale of the time a teenage Coleen McLoughlin chucked her...


Review: Another Seven Symphonies at the Tung Auditorium ****
If you’re going to stage a Beatles world premiere, there’s only one place you really want to do it. And Liverpool rolled out rousing...


Review: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at the Liverpool Empire ****
Sixty years ago this year, a young would-be lyricist penned a speculative letter to an even younger aspiring composer. “I was told you...


Review: Les Misérables at the Liverpool Empire *****
September 1985. The wreck of the Titanic was discovered, England regained the Ashes, there was rioting in Handsworth and Brixton – and a...


Review: White Nights at Liverpool Philharmonic Hall *****
There’s always a sense of occasion on the return of the Phil’s prodigal son – and while the fatted calf may have lived to graze another...


Review: The Croft at Liverpool Playhouse ***
As the old saying goes – if these walls could talk. And that’s what happens, in a manner, in Ali Milles’ The Croft where those who have...


Review: The Liverpool Songbook at Philharmonic Hall ****
UNESCO City of Music. City with the most UK number ones per head of population. An unparalleled roster of musical artists including, of...


Review: Benjamin Appl celebrates Fischer-Dieskau at the Tung Auditorium ****1/2
There’s a much-repeated adage which exhorts its listener to “find someone who looks at you like you’re...magic” (insert similar sentiment...


Review: The Walrus Has a Right to Adventure at the Liverpool Everyman ****
Wirral writer Billie Collins’ debut play, Too Much World at Once, was a continent spanning metaphorical contemplation of identity and...
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