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Review: Season Opening Concert at Philharmonic Hall *****
It’s been a long time coming – five months, if we’re counting, since the full forces of the RLPO were last on the Philharmonic Hall...
Review: Play On! at the Liverpool Playhouse ****
Shakespeare wasn’t averse to borrowing plots or characters from historic texts – and in turn his work has been the inspiration for...
Review: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang at the Liverpool Empire *****
With a scrumptious Sherman Brothers score, a faithful flying car and an enjoyably malevolent baddie, the stage version of Chitty Chitty...
Review: Birdsong at Liverpool Playhouse ***1/2
It’s nearly a decade – in fact pretty much the length of two Great Wars laid end to end – since the stage adaptation of Sebastian Faulks’...
Review: The Lodger at the Unity Theatre ****
Home is where the heart is. There’s no place like home. And, as Maya Angelou noted, the ache for home lives in all of us. That ache is at...
Review: Girls Don't Play Guitars at Liverpool's Royal Court ****1/2
When Ian Salmon’s Girls Don’t Play Guitars was first staged at the Royal Court back in 2019, few people had heard of The Liverbirds or...
Review: The Lieutenant of Inishmore at Liverpool Everyman ****1/2
There’s a lengthy advisory for The Lieutenant of Inishmore – Liverpool Everyman’s brutally funny new production marking the theatre’s...
Review: 101 Dalmatians at Liverpool Empire ****
Dodie Smith loved Dalmatians. Reports vary, but it’s thought while the author didn’t quite get to 101, she certainly had at least nine at...
Review: Peaky Blinders The Redemption of Thomas Shelby at Liverpool Empire ****1/2
Liverpool has a special place in the Peaky Blinders story – it’s here where substantial portions of the early series were filmed, the...
Review: 8 Hours There and Back at the Unity Theatre ****1/2
Prisons, prisoners and imprisonment are all particularly hot topics at present. But in 8 Hours There and Back, Liverpool’s All Things...
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