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Shakespeare North Playhouse promises Macbeth, mechanicals and more in 2023
English Touring Theatre, Shakespeare’s Globe and Headlong are among the companies heading to Prescot as part of Shakespeare North...


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...


Liverpool Empire date for Wagatha Christie trial show
A West End show based on the ‘Wagatha Christie’ libel case is set to come to the Liverpool Empire. Vardy v Rooney: The Wagatha Christie...


Two of Us stars on returning to Lennon and McCartney roles
It’s 10 years now since Mark Newnham and Tom Connor first met in the Royal Court rehearsal room. They were there for Bob Eaton's...


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...


Review: Girl from the North Country at Liverpool Empire ****1/2
Playwright Conor McPherson has spent his career placing disparate characters in isolated or bleak settings (bedsits, seaside suburbs, a...


Review: Dreamgirls at Liverpool Empire ****
Twelve months after its Christmas residency, Dreamgirls is back at the Empire for the final hurrah of its inaugural UK tour – and if the...


Review: Jack and the Beanstalk at Hope Street Theatre ****
Fe fi fo fum, something seasonally silly this way comes. There are tall stories, and then there’s Jack and the Beanstalk, the improbable...


Review: Goldilocks and the Three Bears at Epstein Theatre ****
Panto season is packed with fairy godmothers, sleeping princesses, diminutive miners, magic carpets and improbable runaway vegetation. So...
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