Writer: Verbatim with Carol Ann Duffy Director: Rufus Norris Reviewer: John Roberts Playing for just three nights at the Liverpool Playhouse before Easter weekend, the National Theatre should by all accounts be playing to sold out houses at the Liverpool Playhouse, but this is just not the case with their current UK tour of My Country; a work in progress. ...
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Book: Gregory Boyd (from the works of Lewis Caroll) Music: Frank Wildhorn Director: Lotte Wakeham Reviewer: Dominic Corr It isn’t often that Scotland is privy to the grand European première of a musical. Frank Wildhorn's Wonderland is doing just this, arriving into the Edinburgh Playhouse prior to touring the UK. Plummeting down the rabbit hole, or rather the elevator shaft of ...
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Music &Lyrics: Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus &Stig Anderson Book: Catherine Johnson Director: Phyllida Lloyd Choreographer: Anthony Van Laast Reviewer: Lauren Humphreys Sometimes, all you need at this time of year is to escape the hustle and bustle of festive shopping, freezing temperatures and the shock of your ever-dwindling bank account. 17 years after its first appearance on stage, Benny Andersson ...
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Director: Emma Rogers Choreographer: Emma Rogers, Innis Robertson King &Robin Windsor Reviewer: Rachel Watson If any fans of last year’s Strictly Come Dancing winners Jay McGuiness and Aliona Vilani were asked to name a favourite dance of theirs, it is most likely to be their Pulp Fiction themed Jive in week three of the series. It was quite possibly their ...
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Writer: Frank McGuiness Director: Jeremy Herrin Reviewer: Abbie Rippon This First World War tale is one of many about the numerous local regiments of men who laid down their lives fighting for victory for King and Country. Despite being one of many, this in no way makes the tale any less poignant. A reflective story where Kenneth Pyper revisits the ...
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Writer: William Shakespeare Director: Barry Rutter Reviewer: Abbie Rippon The Merry Wives of Windsor is one of Shakespeare’s lesser performed plays. There is good reason for this. Very few people like to hear a bad word said about the bard but The Merry Wives isn’t his best work. It’s a bit barmy. The plot revolves around Sir John Falstaff (of ...
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Book: Thomas Meehan Music: Charles Strouse Lyrics: Martin Charnin Director: Nikolai Foster Reviewer: Dominic Corr For just shy of forty years, Annie has often proven to be one of the most popular and sickeningly sweet musicals ever to grace the stage. This new production, however, manages to downplay the sugar and generate some genuine chemistry between its characters. The plot ...
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Book: Melanie Challenger Music: Mark Simpson Director: Tim Albery Reviewer: Jamie Gaskin Pleasure shows us that you can get power and emotion into an opera without the epic scale. It is billed as a chamber opera and runs for about 75 minutes straight through. A size of show that could easily grow in popularity. Especially as it has only four ...
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