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Nov 14 2007
NO-ONE who was there had seen anything like it before. There was singing star Tommy Steele on a traffic island in Lime Street and alongside him a pushmi-pullyu, a llama-like creature with a head at both ends....
Nov 6 2007
ROCK legends Bon Jovi will join a galaxy of stars from the world of entertainment to light up the 79th Royal Variety Performance to be attended by the Queen and Prince Philip in Liverpool next month....
Oct 31 2007
As the spooks come out for Halloween, Emma Pinch gets a tour of haunted Liverpool...
Oct 29 2007
ONCE again, the remarkable and inventive Ellen Kent is promising another double bill of terrific opera productions stamped with her own personal style and featuring a host of special effects, wonderful costumes and, of course, live animals galore....
Oct 22 2007
OVERWORKED, partied out and shattered after a week of sadistic scheduling conflicts, this reviewer knew that only the energies of one man would go any stretch to holding my attention on a lazy Sunday evening....
Oct 19 2007
When the excitement dies down, Beverley Knight just wants a cuppa.Emma Pinch reports...
Oct 19 2007
IT WAS a familiar tale with a whole new twist. Rossini’s La Cenerentola is known in English as Cinderella but contains many subtle twists and differences to make it entertainingly different....
Oct 17 2007
NEW opera is always going to be a challenge. It’s a challenge for the audience, certainly. It’s not a rehashed Boheme or Traviata....
Oct 12 2007
IT MAY be a new ballet, the score largely unfamiliar, but The Snow Queen, world premiered at the Liverpool Empire last night, has the look and sound of an established classic....
Oct 12 2007
FROM milkman to the lead in an opera about violence at a wedding has been quite a step for Peter Hoare. Philip Key reports...
