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May 7 2008
WE KNOW Frank Sinatra had a great way with a lyric, unique phrasing and picked the best songs and the best arrangers....
Apr 29 2008
WHEN Scouse scally Nige is on stage, I am both in fits of laughter and wide-eyed in surprise at the stories he tells....
Apr 29 2008
THERE are three plays struggling to get out of this Actor’s Studio production - the first full-length dramatic outing by 29- year-old Scott Murphy....
Apr 25 2008
IN these days of aloof £100,000-a-week-plus players many of whom look on the fans with a disdain now being reciprocated, there's a need to remember a football icon who personified the expression Man Of The People....
Apr 24 2008
SWEDISH playwright August Strindberg’s The Ghost Sonata has its 100th anniversary marked this year in Liverpool with an extraordinary production from People Show based around the Palm House in Sefton Park....
Apr 23 2008
FIDDLER on the Roof is one of those Broadway musicals which must have looked unpromising on paper, with its story of a Jewish pogrom in a small Russian village of 1905....
Apr 22 2008
THERE is so much passion, heartache, broken dreams, frustration and unrequited love in Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie it almost threatens to spill over and carry the tale and its tellers along in its wake....
Apr 17 2008
YOU can understand why theatre people love Samuel Beckett. They must adore to play his larger-than-life characters, tackle his nonsense dialogue and play with all the theatrical trickery he gives them....
Apr 17 2008
JUST as football is said to be a game of two halves, Ben Elton’s revamped musical is a story of two interlinked realities – the Innocence of childhood and the difficult decisions that are part of growing up....
Apr 16 2008
THE title of Arthur Miller’s early play The Man Who Had All the Luck explains the plot but not its subtle nuances....
