musical | artscityliverpool 23/28

Review: Mary Poppins at the Liverpool Empire *****

Liverpool’s Royal Court is launching a new musical this week. Maggie May (as in the ‘poor old’ Maggie who ‘cruised down’ Lime Street, not...

Saturday Night Fever turned a strutting John Travolta in to an international star – and took disco off the dancefloor to set it centre...

Long before he penned hip hop phenomenon Hamilton, a teenage Lin-Manuel Miranda conceived In The Heights – a musical set in the Latino...

It seems the time to let it be is yet to come. So Fab Four fans will be pleased to hear the Beatles are back at the Liverpool Empire next...

Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda’s In The Heights is being staged by young actors at the Liverpool Empire this month. The multi-Tony...

From Annie to Wicked and Billy Elliot to The Lion King, there’s nothing like a musical spectacular. It seems we theatre audiences can’t...

The most famous ship in the world was conceived in Liverpool for a Liverpool company – and had Liverpool written on her stern. But the...

First it was a pulsating ‘Christmas disco’ musical warming up the chilly surroundings of The Dome at Grand Central with its Seventies...

She may not have won over Eurovision voters, but Lucie Jones is certainly a hit as the lead in this current tour of irrepressible musical...

The 1980s were bookended by two great cinematic slices of audience wish-fulfilment. One was in 1987 when Patrick Swayze opined that...