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THEATRE INTERVIEW: Casualty’s Ben Turner on starring in The Kite Runner at the Liverpool Playhouse

Liverpool Daily Post — Thu, 06 Jun 2013 05:00:00 GMT

Starring in The Kite Runner reminds Ben Turner of the sights and smells of childhood visits to Iran, he tells Laura Davis

THEATRE REVIEW: Beautiful Thing starring Suranne Jones, Liverpool Playhouse

Liverpool Daily Post — Thu, 30 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

IT OPENS with the sighting of a rainbow, the universal symbol of gay rights, yet there is nothing of the heavy-handed campaigner about Jonathan Harvey’s writing in Beautiful Thing.

THEATRE REVIEW: Rutherford and Son directed by Sir Jonathan Miller, Liverpool Playhouse

Liverpool Daily Post — Thu, 23 May 2013 04:00:00 GMT

A SUFFOCATING air of resentment and dissatisfaction hangs over Githa Sowerby’s 1912 play Rutherford and Son, revived by the rarely disappointing Northern Broadsides.

THEATRE INTERVIEW: Sir Jonathan Miller on directing Northern Broadside’s Rutherford and Son

Liverpool Daily Post — Thu, 16 May 2013 05:15:00 GMT

The incomparable Jonathan Miller talks to Laura Davis about directing the latest Northern Broadside’s play to visit the Liverpool Playhouse.

THEATRE REVIEW: Blue Remembered Hills, Liverpool Playhouse

Liverpool Daily Post — Thu, 16 May 2013 03:00:00 GMT

DENNIS POTTER’S snapshot of a never-ending sunny afternoon that only seems to exist in childhood is a perfectly formed piece of theatre.

THEATRE INTERVIEW: Tilly Gaunt on starring in Dennis Potter’s Blue Remembered at the Liverpool Playhouse

Liverpool Daily Post — Thu, 09 May 2013 05:00:00 GMT

Tilly Gaunt is relishing the chance to be seven years old again in Dennis Potter’s Blue Remembered Hills, she tells Laura Davis

THEATRE INTERVIEW: The Royle Family’s Ralf Little on starring in A Day in the Death of Joe Egg at the Liverpool Playhouse

Liverpool Daily Post — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 07:00:00 GMT

Peter Nichols’s 1967 play about parents coping with a severely disabled child is just as shocking today, its star Ralf Little tells Laura Davis

THEATRE REVIEW: I Was a Rat! at the Liverpool Playhouse

Liverpool Daily Post — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 02:00:00 GMT

PHILIP PULLMAN’S tale of the little boy in a footman’s uniform, who turns up on the doorstep of a shoemaker and his washerwoman wife with no memory except that he used to be a rat, is a perfectly composed children’s story.

DANCE INTERVIEW: Phoenix Dance Theatre’s Sharon Watson on touring her new work based on DNA to the Liverpool Playhouse

Liverpool Daily Post — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 08:00:00 GMT

Choreographer Sharon Watson has joined with a former RLPO conductor-in- residence to create a new dance work. It was a challenge, she tells Laura Davis

THEATRE REVIEW: The Phantom of the Opera, Liverpool Empire

Liverpool Daily Post — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 04:00:00 GMT

IT’S been more than 25 years since The Phantom of the Opera first opened and it remains just as compelling today – not least because producer Cameron Mackintosh is unafraid of making huge changes to such a successful show.