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Dec 14 2007
LIVERPOOL impresario Bill Kenwright tells Philip Key of his secret talks over ideas for the Capital of Culture...
Nov 23 2007
FROM TV murders to the Nativity. Philip Key talks to actor Daniel Casey...
Nov 23 2007
PHILIP Key talks to actor and singer Sam Bloom about his role in the Everyman’s pantomime. ...
Nov 21 2007
PINOCCHIO is the story we all think we know, mainly thanks to Walt Disney’s 1940 animated feature. It will be getting a rather different treatment when it goes on stage at Liverpool’s Unity Theatre from December 4....
Nov 19 2007
OPERA designers don’t always make it easy for singers. Heather Shipp was at the Royal Opera House this year singing in Wagner’s Ring Cycle and found herself atop what she describes as a “20ft high mantelpiece”....
Nov 16 2007
IT IS four hours before the curtain is due to rise at Liverpool’s Royal Court Theatre, and actress Eithne Browne is already in her dressing room. "I like to be prepared," she says, admitting to a certain anxiety before any performance....
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 12 2007
SCOTTISH actor Tam Dean Burn was desperate to talk to fellow Scot and author Luke Sutherland. Only he had lost his mobile phone with his number on it....
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 29 2007
OVER the years, the irrepressible Northern Broadsides has delivered trail-blazing and often astounding work and, led by founder Barrie Rutter, it arrives back in Liverpool with a riotous adaptation of the classic Greek comedy Lysistrata....
