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Review: Cooped at Liverpool Playhouse ****
Time flies when you’re having fun, and when it comes to Spymonkey, the clock has evidently gone supersonic. Somehow the company has...


Review: Misunderstood? at Royal Court Studio **1/2
Remember the classic self-help book Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus which explained how the sexes spoke different languages – and...


Review: Opera North Aida at Philharmonic Hall ****1/2
Last summer some of the UK’s leading companies converged on Liverpool to pledge a year-round programme of opera for city audiences....


Review: Hair the Musical at Liverpool Empire ****
When Hair first burst upon the UK stage in 1968 it was pretty racy and outrageous stuff – hippies, protest, drugs, sex….full-frontal...


Review: Russian Passion at Philharmonic Hall ****
Four Russian composers, one Russian conductor, a German cellist, multi-national orchestra and a Liverpool audience together on a late...


Review: Little Shop of Horrors at Storyhouse ****
Little Shop of Horrors the musical started its life in the intimate confines of an Off-Off-Broadway theatre space. And this new...


Review: Hello, Dolly! at Liverpool Empire ****
Last season BOST took a noirish journey into the sinister, unsavoury savoury world of Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd. This year they’ve swapped...


Review: Giltburg Plays Beethoven at Philharmonic Hall ****1/2
A great big Beethoven anniversary is looming on the horizon with next year marking the 250 years since Ludwig van’s birth. The world is...


Review: Dirty Dancing at Liverpool Empire ***
Generations of romantics have had the time of their lives watching Dirty Dancing, whether it be the original 1987 film or, over the past...


Review: Cabaret at LIPA ****
One of art’s great abilities is to transcend its physical and historical boundaries to speak loudly to us about the way we are now....
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