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Review: Lost Atoms at the Liverpool Playhouse ****
When a trio of Swansea university students formed a theatre company there in the mid-90s, little could they have imagined that they themselves would one day be studied in turn. But 30 years on, Frantic Assembly is on not one but several curricula, as the huge number of young people in the audience at the Liverpool Playhouse on opening night revealed. The company has a long association with Liverpool. One of its earliest successes was Wirral playwright Michael Wynne’s Sell Out
Review: The Tempest at Shakespeare North Playhouse ****
Earlier this year Shakespeare North Playhouse delivered a gleefully irreverent stag and hen Love’s Labour’s Lost, and before that was a...
Review: Britannia Waves the Rules at the Hope Street Theatre *****
Playwright Gareth Farr’s searing and lyrical Britannia Waves the Rules first roared on to the stage a decade ago, its damaged protagonist...
Review: The Book of Mormon at the Liverpool Empire *****
Ding dong! The Mormons are back in Liverpool with glad tidings – as long as you’re not easily offended that is. Trey Parker, Matt Stone...
Review: Shake it up Baby! at the Epstein Theatre ****
Liverpool playwright Ian Salmon returns to the streets of Hamburg, six years after the all-female Liverbirds rocked the Reeperbahn in his...
Review: Syncopated at Liverpool Playhouse Studio ***1/2
One bench, a pair of people, two time periods and four entwined stories. Set both in present day Liverpool and the post-war, just...
Review: Fiddler on the Roof at Liverpool Empire ****1/2
Liverpool art lovers may recall the Marc Chagall exhibition at Tate Liverpool 12 years ago where among the many wonderful paintings on...
Review: The Derby-Days at Liverpool's Royal Court ****
It was teeming outside – both with rain, and with fans who didn’t have tickets for the Merseyside derby at Anfield and were intent on...
Review: The Lightning Thief at the Liverpool Empire ***1/2
More than a quarter of a century after it first burst on the storytelling scene, the ‘young adult’ fantasy fiction genre remains hugely...
Review: Cartoonopolis at the Liverpool Playhouse ****
It’s a decade since writer and actor Lewis Bray introduced Liverpool audiences to the wild and wonderful world conjured by his creative...
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