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Review: Grease at the Liverpool Empire ****
It’s 50 years since Grease first hit the stage, and more than four decades since John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John took the big screen...


Review: Sound the Trumpet at Philharmonic Hall ****1/2
Cast your mind back, if you can, to a time before Covid. It was January 2020, and the Phil was trying out another new face with an eye to...


Review: Rossiter at Hope Street Theatre ***1/2
On October 5, 1984, Leonard Rossiter was in his dressing room at London’s Lyric Theatre where he was appearing in a revival of Joe...


Review: Wild Swans at Philharmonic Hall ****1/2
You wait for one world premiere to come along and then, like buses, two turn up one after the other. And if Roberto Sierra’s Sixth...


Review: The Midnight Bell at Liverpool Playhouse ****1/2
While his usual Liverpool stamping ground is up the road at the Empire, four years ago Matthew Bourne brought his playful Early...


Review: The War of the Worlds at Liverpool Everyman ****
HG Wells’ deadly fin de siècle sci-fi tale has been through any number of storytelling permutations and genres since it was published at...


Review: Sirens, Men and Crabs at Unity Theatre ****
Good things come to those that wait. And for fans of Teatro Pomodoro, the Liverpool-based international theatre troupe, it’s been an...


Review: Homebaked at Royal Court Liverpool ****
Everyone loves a David and Goliath story, a tale of the little person’s triumph over ‘the man’. And surely everyone loves a pie? So it’s...


Review: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at Liverpool Playhouse ****
You wait for one play about simmering family secrets, lies and resentments exploding at a 65th birthday party – and then two come along...


Review: Our Lady of Blundellsands at Liverpool Everyman ****1/2
Jonathan Harvey’s hotly anticipated new play Our Lady of Blundellsands was dealt a blow when its premiere run was cut cruelly short by...
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