Miracle on 34th Street was always going to be a commercial banker for the Liverpool Playhouse. Artistically though, for a theatre which made an exciting choice with its Christmas offering from physical comedy company...
Read MorePlaywright Rona Munro tells us in her forward to the programme for Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein that she has a “visceral aversion” to analyses of a writer’s work that use their biography “to interpret the stories they told”. Of...
Read MoreFull disclosure: I have not in fact seen the Oscar-winning film on which Little Miss Sunshine the musical is based. This show made me want to watch it, which has to be a good thing, although it also made me suspect I would...
Read MoreCooped is something akin to the best bad am-dram theatre production you’ve ever seen. It is a farcical gothic romance, pitched as ‘Hitchcock’s Rebecca meets The Pink Panther’ and performed with the kind of knockabout silliness...
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...
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