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Review: Night of the Living Dead - Remix at Liverpool Playhouse ****
Lights, camera, actors…. Imitating the dog applies its trademark multimedia theatrical approach to the zombie apocalypse in what is...


Review: On Your Feet! at Liverpool Empire ***1/2
Back in the mid-80s a new sound hit British dancefloors – and the singles charts – with an infectiously funky Latin rhythmed dance number...


Review: Sheku and Isata Kanneh-Mason at Philharmonic Hall ****
This Sunday night recital concert was originally planned for the intimate confines of the Phil’s Music Room. But such has been the...


Review: Animal Farm at Liverpool Everyman ****
“Power,” Lord Alton wrote in 1887, “tends to corrupt. And absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Well, plus ça change, plus c'est la même...


Review: I Think We Are Alone at Liverpool Playhouse ****
We live in an age of complete connectivity – and yet in many ways we’re more alone than ever. And as Sally Abbott’s powerful and...


Review: Bruckner’s ‘Romantic’ Symphony at Philharmonic Hall ****
There are, of course, as many superstitions within the classical music world as anywhere else – but the ‘curse of the ninth’ is perhaps...


Review: An Inspector Calls at Liverpool Playhouse ****
When, back in the early 90s, Stephen Daldry revealed his intention to stage An Inspector Calls at the National you can imagine it raising...


Review: Curtains at Liverpool Empire ***1/2
Ask musical theatre fans to name a Kander and Ebb show and they’ll probably offer you Cabaret or Chicago. But there’s a third ‘C’ in the...


Review: The Woman in Black at Liverpool Playhouse ****
Two actors, a handful of props, some judiciously deployed lighting and sound effects, and one ghostly apparition. Stephen Mallatratt’s...


Review: Petrenko's Mahler I at Philharmonic Hall *****
The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic was the first British orchestra to perform the Mahler cycle when Sir Charles Groves wielded the baton...
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