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Review: Belshazzar's Feast at Philharmonic Hall ****1/2
The start of the season may have been delayed a month by work to the hall, but the Phil’s autumn schedule has certainly rip-roared into...


Review: & Juliet at the Liverpool Empire ****1/2
In the 18th Century there was a vogue for rewriting Shakespeare to appeal to Georgian audiences and which included introducing new...


Review: The Book of Horrors volume 2 at Hope Street Theatre **1/2
Anyone who likes a bit of horror in their lives will find that their cup runneth over next week – with Halloween preceded by an autumn...


Review: Giselle at the Liverpool Empire ****
Giselle has been if not endlessly then certainly regularly reinterpreted since it was composed some 183 years ago. Among them are Mats...


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...
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