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Review: Council Depot Blues at Royal Court Liverpool ***
Back in 2008, Dave Kirby scored a hat-trick of successes at the Royal Court with Brick Up, Lost Soul and Council Depot Blues. The first...


Review: Those Two Weeks at the Unity Theatre ***
It's become a defining moment in Liverpool’s history. But behind the headlines and the long fight for justice, it’s important to remember...


Review: The Kite Runner at Liverpool Playhouse ***1/2
When the Everyman and Playhouse first co-produced The Kite Runner five years ago, it became both the play’s European premiere and also...


Review: The Wedding at Liverpool Playhouse ***1/2
The Wedding, Gecko’s dystopian exploration of an individual’s contract with - and role within - society, opens with a succession of happy...


Review: Sunset Boulevard at Liverpool Empire ****
Ria Jones’s Sunset Boulevard ‘journey’ is almost worth a play itself. The actress was the first to perform the Andrew Lloyd Webber...


Review: A Passage to India at Liverpool Playhouse ***1/2
EM Forster’s works often concern themselves with personal relationships and their clash with social mores, while in A Passage to India –...


Review: RLPO and Nobuyuki Tsujii present Rhapsody ****1/2
First there was the muscular lyricism of Julian Rachlin’s Brahms Violin Concerto matched with a vibrant and colourful Enigma Variations,...


Review: Her Benny at Royal Court Liverpool ****
There are certain shows and stories that strike a deeply-felt chord with Liverpool audiences. Blood Brothers is one, and Twopence to...


Review: RLPO and Petrenko play Turangalila *****
Romantic love and death have long been artistic bedfellows, the inspiration for great literature and art, from Tristan and Isolde to...


Review: The Band at Liverpool Empire ****1/2
Tim Firth and Take That’s musical has recently seen its run extended in to 2019 – a good gauge perhaps of just what a chord this tale of...
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