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Review: Greatest Days at Liverpool Empire ****
When Gary Barlow first approached his old mate Tim Firth – Frodsham’s other famous son – about penning a Take That musical, Firth was...


Review: SealSkin at Liverpool Everyman ****1/2
When Liverpool’s Tmesis Theatre isn’t creating endlessly inventive stage spectacles it’s running Physical Fest – a bi-annual celebration...


Review: Sixteen Swans at Philharmonic Hall *****
Just another Thursday night in Liverpool UNESCO City of Music. While down on the Pier Head a heaving festival crowd enjoyed a set from...


Review: Vernons Girls at Royal Court Liverpool ****
UNESCO City of Music, World Capital of Pop, home to the biggest band the globe has ever seen – we all know Liverpool’s musical...


Review: Annie at Liverpool Empire ****
It’s the hard-knock life for many people at the moment – but in the history of boom and bust, the Great Depression of the early 1930s...


Review: Dream Team at Philharmonic Hall ****1/2
All eyes are on Liverpool this week, with the joyful Eurovision juggernaut reaching a crazy, camp, celebratory climax tomorrow night down...


Review: The Ocean at the End of the Lane at Liverpool Empire ****1/2
“Where does imagination stop, and memory begin?” asks the magical matriarch of the mysterious Hempstock family near the start of Neil...


Review: Twice Nightly at Royal Court Studio ****
Ahhh, the smell of the greasepaint…the roar of the crowd. Treading the boards is an addictive, if precarious way to make a living, as the...


Review: Macbeth at Liverpool Playhouse ***1/2
Lancaster-based theatre company imitating the dog has become a regular visitor to the Playhouse over the past few years, bringing with it...


Review: The Commitments at Liverpool Empire ***1/2
More than 30 years after he first created it, Roddy Doyle’s tale of a band rising from the grimy streets of Dublin’s North Side, burning...
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