review | artscityliverpool 12/51

Woolton Picture House stages 12 Days of Christmas this December

While Philharmonic Hall has, it seems, become a happy home-from-home for several of the talented Kanneh-Mason family over the past few...

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...

When My Beautiful Laundrette burst on to the big screen almost 40 years ago, it was an invigorating and influential cinematic moment....

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...

If Lennon and McCartney were essentially (as Come Together explains) “two lads from Liverpool, friends, brought together by fate – at a...

History, as another play about a much-maligned character reminded me this week, is written by the victors. It’s also been largely written...

Just like those other shell-shocking moments in time, those of us who were alive then know exactly where we were and what we were doing...

The rehabilitation of Richard III’s character continues apace. For every (increasingly fractious it seems) production of Shakespeare’s...

Fairytale ‘baddies’ get such a bad rap don’t they? But honestly, are they all really evil, or are some maybe just a bit, you know,...

Anton Bruckner was, by all accounts, a pretty peculiar man. He was obsessed with counting architectural features, had a troubling...