Author: Fran Yeoman
Art Review – The Tudors: Passion, Power and Politics, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Many famous faces stare at you through the ages during a visit to Walker Art Gallery’s outstanding new Tudor exhibition.
Read the full story..Review: Fairy Tales, Z-arts, Manchester
Fairy Tales is the latest in a series of immersive children’s exhibitions to reach Hulme’s Z-arts from the Discover Children’s Story Centre in London.
Read the full story..Theatre Review: Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World, Liverpool Playhouse
This could quite easily have been terrible.
Read the full story..Festive Review: Rock ‘n’ Roll Panto – Robin Hood: Tights in White Satin, Everyman, Liverpool
How to encapsulate Robin Hood: Tights in White Satin in a sentence?
Read the full story..“We are incredibly resilient.” Dominic Strange from Chester Zoo on the return of The Lanterns
It’s an odd proposition if you think too hard about it, visiting one of the UK’s biggest zoos without seeing a live animal.
Read the full story..Review: Disney on Ice – Find Your Hero, AO Arena, Manchester
Mickey has brought his Premier League players to the rink for this year’s iteration of the Disney on Ice juggernaut.
Read the full story..Review: Lucian Freud – Real Lives, Tate Liverpool
Is it possible, or desirable, to truly distinguish your appreciation of an artist’s talent from your misgivings about their private conduct?
Read the full story..Theatre Review: A Christmas Carol, Liverpool Playhouse
There were ghosts in this play alright, many more than Dickens ever intended.
Read the full story..Review: Don McCullin, Tate Liverpool
Three defiant Scouse lads are the first people you meet on the way into this new iteration of Tate Britain’s Don McCullin 2019 retrospective. But it’s the faces from further away that will leave with you.
Read the full story..Theatre Review: Our Lady of Blundellsands, Everyman, Liverpool
This would have been a better play with just two people in it.
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