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Review: Matthew Bourne's Sleeping Beauty at Liverpool Empire ****1/2
Having delivered his Nutcracker! in 1992, and his singular Swan Lake in 1995, it took Matthew Bourne the best part of two decades to...


Review: Rachmaninov's Third Piano Concerto at Philharmonic Hall *****
It’s never good news when you find yourself without a soloist days before a practically sold-out concert. So you can feel for the...


Review: The Beekeeper of Aleppo at Liverpool Playhouse ****
It’s a decade since Matthew Spangler’s adaptation of The Kite Runner first landed on the Liverpool Playhouse’s stage and five years since...


Review: Mother Goose at Liverpool Empire ****
Christmas may be fast receding in the rear-view mirror of memory. But although we’re no longer in traditional panto season, Liverpool...


Review: The King and I at Liverpool Empire ****
A lot has happened since the Lincoln Center Theater’s lavish-looking production of The King and I last swept on to the stage at the...


Review: Mozart's Requiem at Philharmonic Hall ****1/2
In recent years the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic has applied itself to highlighting and celebrating talented women composers whose work...


Review: Faustus That Damned Woman at Storyhouse ****
If you were given infinite power and a century in which to wield it, what would you do? In Marlowe and Goethe’s versions of the Faustus...


Review: The Verdict at New Brighton Floral Pavilion ****
Courtroom dramas have a long history on film Think To Kill a Mockingbird, A Few Good Men, Runaway Jury, Witness for the Prosecution and...


Review: Bugsy Malone at Liverpool Empire ****
Alan Parker’s colourful confection of gangsters and showgirls has entertained generations of youngsters since it burst on to the big...


Review: Unsolicited at Royal Court Studio ***1/2
It was 10.30pm and there was a woman at the stop seeing her friend safely on to the bus I had just stepped off after returning from the...
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