Review

Review: Bat Out of Hell the Musical at the Liverpool Empire ***1/2

Bat Out of Hell has a convoluted origin story. Back in the 1960s the late Jim Steinman conceived a musical set among a tribe of wild...

It’s a big year for BOST. In fact, this is the start of two big years for the Merseyside musical theatre company. In July it’s involved...

Just on the off chance you haven’t noticed, we’re currently in the midst of ‘the most wonderful time of the year’, complete with much...

Covid was a calamity for many, and in many different ways. And one casualty of the pandemic was the Unity’s wonderful annual Christmas...

Panto season brings with it a myriad magical lands inhabited by plucky princesses in peril, loyal but hapless sidekicks, boo-able baddies...

There are plenty of Aladdins on stages up and down the land this Christmas, but none, I suspect, are half as lavish as Disney’s musical...

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas – toys in every store, and a festive show on every stage. While there are big bad wolves on...

If you can win over an auditorium of sugar-fuelled schoolchildren, you know you’re doing something right. So chapeau to the cast of...

They may come from two different ‘Dream’ teams. But it seems the partnership between Domingo Hindoyan and pianist Simon Trpčeski is no...

Half-a-century after the Rocky Horror Show, Richard O’Brien’s love letter to his 50s cinema youth, first hit the stage it remains an...