“I’m alive at last,” Sweeney Todd declares towards the end of act one, as he abandons his plan for targeted revenge against the judge who wronged him in favour of a throat-slitting class war against the generality of “those...
Read MoreIt is only six months since Laura Eason’s re-telling of Phileas Fogg’s circumnavigation last docked in Liverpool, and its rapid return is testament to both the bums-on-seats appeal of Jules Verne’s classic and the wit of this...
Read MoreFoolhardy, perhaps, for an establishment called Titanic to describe anything as a launch. But this week, a new spring menu was indeed launched into the hotel’s dining room, a slick, post-industrial space known as Stanley’s Bar...
Read MoreIf a British-Polish lesbian romance mixed with Hull City’s promotion to the Premier League and Brexit sounds like an unlikely recipe for a coherent piece of musical theatre, that’s because it is. Us Against Whatever, a new...
Read MoreAxel Scheffler, one might argue, is getting desperate. The illustrator of Julia Donaldson’s Gruffalo is hoping against hope that a character akin to the mouse from that much-loved book might yet rescue Britain and Europe from...
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