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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...
Review: My Beautiful Laundrette at Liverpool Playhouse ***1/2
When My Beautiful Laundrette burst on to the big screen almost 40 years ago, it was an invigorating and influential cinematic moment....
Review: Edward II After Brecht at LIPA ***1/2
For every monarch that has lived to a great age and died peacefully in their beds, there are others who have come to a more…unexpected...
Review: Come Together at Liverpool Royal Court ****
If Lennon and McCartney were essentially (as Come Together explains) “two lads from Liverpool, friends, brought together by fate – at a...
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