review | artscityliverpool 18/51

Liverpool date for The Silence of the Lambs

It’s not particularly easy to find the positives in a pandemic which has decimated lives, communities and economies. But it’s probably...

Four years ago, Adjoa Andoh directed and starred in an all-Black women cast Richard II at the Globe which mused on what it means to be...

Richard ‘One Man, Two Guvnors’ Bean penned Great Britain against the backdrop of the News of the World phone hacking trials of a decade...

There are some concert programmes that send you home with a smile – and this foray into the sound worlds of Barber, Beethoven and the...

There have always been conspiracy theories and people happy to believe them, but the rise of the internet – and, in recent times, being...

The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic has a reputation for commissioning new work and Hope Street audiences have become used to world...

First it was a best-selling book (titled These Foolish Things), then a hit film, followed by a reality TV series populated by a cohort of...

When Anton Chekhov premiered The Seagull in the autumn of 1896, it bewildered its audience whose loud dismay (they booed and hissed the...

There are ‘in house’ productions – and then there’s the Royal Court where the creative team (and wider workforce) don’t just stage shows...

When Caryl Churchill’s Top Girls was premiered back in 1982, it was hailed as an important addition to both the socialist and feminist...