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Review: For Love or Money at Liverpool Playhouse ***
Northern Broadsides have become one of the foundations of a Playhouse season – and before that, of the Everyman’s annual programme....


Review: Verdi's Requiem at Philharmonic Hall *****
He’s one of the most in-demand singers in the world with a schedule that fills up years in advance. But it appears Bryn Terfel might just...


Review: War Horse at Liverpool Empire *****
“My subject is war and the pity of war,” wrote Wilfred Owen in the preface to the collection of poems he never lived to see published. So...


Review: People, Places & Things at Liverpool Playhouse ****
“It’s not a problem my using,” claims cocksure Emma (or is it Nina or Sarah?) as she checks in unwillingly to rehab at the start of...


Review: The Lark Ascending at Philharmonic Hall ****1/2
Earth, water, air….and plenty of fire in this emotionally stirring concert at the Phil that took a trip through the elements as portrayed...


Review: Songs for the End of the World at Liverpool Everyman ***1/2
Is it the end of the world as we know it? And do we feel fine? Maybe more confused, conflicted – and confrontational in this piece of...


Review: Footloose at Royal Court Liverpool ***
It’s the role that made actor Kevin Bacon famous – the disaffected city boy trapped in small town America where having fun is banned by...


Review: Around the World in 80 Days at Liverpool Playhouse ****
For many of us the idea of a voyage around the world is a romantic proposition. For Jules Verne’s Phileas Fogg – brought engagingly to...


Review: Akram Khan's Giselle at the Liverpool Empire ****
Contemporary and classical collide with striking results in this bold reimagining by Akram Khan of one of ballet’s oldest tales. It was a...


Review: The Suitcase at Liverpool Playhouse ***1/2
“Dreamers from the village come for the milk and honey. It’s all gone,” says a philosophising street drunk towards the conclusion of this...
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