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Review: Rapunzel the Rock 'n' Roll Panto at Liverpool Everyman ***1/2
Hair we go! Christmas is a-coming, and that means fairy lights, the mainlining of mince pies and the arrival of the Everyman Rock ‘n’...


Review: It's a Wonderful Life at the Royal Court Studio ****
Christmas is on the horizon now which means two things – panto season and the return of festive favourite It’s a Wonderful Life to the...


Review: 1984 at the Liverpool Playhouse ***1/2
George Orwell’s dystopian masterwork is 75 years old now, but its author didn’t live to see its impact, dying just a few months after its...


Review: The Scouse Red Riding Hood at Liverpool's Royal Court ****
After Dick Whittington, Cinderella and Jack and the Beanstalk, the Royal Court team has sunk its teeth into another famous fairytale for...


Review: An American in Paris at Philharmonic Hall ****1/2
Just before the Philharmonic Hall closed for major building work in 2014, the RLPO premiered Poltroons in Paradise – a specially...


Review: Dear Evan Hansen at the Liverpool Empire ****
On paper it’s not the most prepossessing of pitches. A musical that centres topics like mental health, loneliness, suicide and grief. Yet...


Review: Belshazzar's Feast at Philharmonic Hall ****1/2
The start of the season may have been delayed a month by work to the hall, but the Phil’s autumn schedule has certainly rip-roared into...


Review: & Juliet at the Liverpool Empire ****1/2
In the 18th Century there was a vogue for rewriting Shakespeare to appeal to Georgian audiences and which included introducing new...


Review: The Book of Horrors volume 2 at Hope Street Theatre **1/2
Anyone who likes a bit of horror in their lives will find that their cup runneth over next week – with Halloween preceded by an autumn...


Review: Giselle at the Liverpool Empire ****
Giselle has been if not endlessly then certainly regularly reinterpreted since it was composed some 183 years ago. Among them are Mats...
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