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Review: I, Daniel Blake at Liverpool Playhouse ****
“All we need is some bloody common sense here,” points out a frustrated Daniel Blake in an early encounter with the machinery of...


Review: Macbeth at Shakespeare North Playhouse ***
There’s certainly food for thought – albeit with a side order of frustration - in ETT’s new touring production of Macbeth, premiering at...


Review: Cuckoo at Liverpool Everyman ****
It was watching shows at the Liverpool Everyman which first fired a passion for theatre in the heart of a Birkenhead teenager called...


Review: 42nd Street at Liverpool Empire ****1/2
The unemployment statistics for Depression Era America make for grim reading, and 1933 was its ‘annus horribilis’ (to borrow a phrase...


Review: Legally Blonde at Liverpool Empire ****
They say you should never work with children or animals – but this effervescent Empire Youth Theatre production of hit musical Legally...


Review: A Greasy Spoon at Liverpool Royal Court ***
There are two greasy spoons, it becomes clear early on, in this new comedy by first-time playwright Alice Bunker-Whitney. One is...


Review: Locomotive for Murder at Liverpool Theatre Festival ****
It’s fair to say it’s been a testing time for this year’s Liverpool Theatre Festival, with July a distinctly soggy backdrop for the...


Review: The Magic Bookmark at Liverpool Theatre Festival ***1/2
The ebullient Mama G - part-Danny La Rue, part-Princess Margaret and wholly the colourful alter ego of performer Robert Pearce - appeared...


Review: Titanic the Musical at Liverpool Empire ****
It seems that even after 111 years, Titanic continues to occupy a place in our consciousness, and to make headlines – sadly for yet more...


Review: A Midsummer Night's Dream at Grosvenor Park ****
Grosvenor Park has tweaked its MO this season, taking its usual ‘family’ show out of the theatre and into the park in a promenade...
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