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Review: Les Misérables at the Liverpool Empire *****

Just before the Philharmonic Hall closed for major building work in 2014, the RLPO premiered Poltroons in Paradise – a specially...

On paper it’s not the most prepossessing of pitches. A musical that centres topics like mental health, loneliness, suicide and grief. Yet...

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...

In the 18th Century there was a vogue for rewriting Shakespeare to appeal to Georgian audiences and which included introducing new...

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...

Giselle has been if not endlessly then certainly regularly reinterpreted since it was composed some 183 years ago. Among them are Mats...

It’s been a long time coming – five months, if we’re counting, since the full forces of the RLPO were last on the Philharmonic Hall...

Shakespeare wasn’t averse to borrowing plots or characters from historic texts – and in turn his work has been the inspiration for...

With a scrumptious Sherman Brothers score, a faithful flying car and an enjoyably malevolent baddie, the stage version of Chitty Chitty...

It’s nearly a decade – in fact pretty much the length of two Great Wars laid end to end – since the stage adaptation of Sebastian Faulks’...