Articles...
Apr 9 2008
YOU know just what you are getting with a Northern Broadsides production, although it might be even clearer if renamed Northern Broad Strokes....
Mar 26 2008
DURING the golden age of the Broadway musical, few writers could match Rodgers and Hammerstein – Oscar Hammerstein provided strong stories and intelligent lyrics while Richard Rodgers wrote memorable tunes....
Mar 26 2008
IF YOU go down to the Everyman, be in for a big surprise . . . there you will meet a mischievous misfit....
Mar 20 2008
PHILIP Key rediscovers some classic Motown pop of the 60s and 70s...
Mar 19 2008
THIS is a warm and magical, thought-provoking, gentle production from the Watershed Theatre Company. It starts off slowly, but soon picks up momentum with a polished cast who clearly relish performing it....
Mar 19 2008
RARELY has a play developed such an affinity with its audience as Brick Up The Mersey Tunnels....
Mar 14 2008
STRAVINSKY and hip-hop dance may seem strange bed-fellows, but it was a meeting which worked remarkably well for the New York-based dance company Decadance at the Playhouse last night....
Mar 11 2008
IRISH pensioner Mrs Brown was back in town last night, more outrageous, more sweary and as daft as ever. And she had the kind of success of which other performers dream....
Mar 6 2008
IT IS rare for a production of Bertolt Brecht’s The Caucasian Chalk Circle to be as much fun as this one from the Liverpool Theatre School....
Feb 28 2008
OLD shipmates gather in a grubby club bar following the funeral of their former captain and start squabbling. We are in familiar Scouse territory in this new play by comedians Stanley McHale and Keith Carter as the wisecracks and insults come thick and fast....