Reviews

Panto season has begun (oh yes, it has!) and St Helens Theatre Royal is bringing you a short-run production of Sleeping Beauty. The show itself was very playful and fun, catering to the younger audience, but only runs until this...

This weekend LIMF Academy, a well-established musical organisation, hosted a two-day show based in the Baltic Triangle at District, to celebrate their success over the past decade. It was also an opportunity to showcase the talents that have been produced...

The public’s opinion of sequels, whether it’s a reboot or a second movie, is that nothing is better than the original. But not in this case - The Salon is back at St Helen’s Theatre Royal, and it’s better than...

The play Garden of Gethsemane encapsulates religious trauma that women face along with questioning the contradictions between actual faith and religious organisations. This allegory, performed by students at LIPA, is told through the tale of six different women being married...

Liverpool-based deaf and disabled charity DaDa are putting on a variety of performances to highlight talent and art from the disabled and neurodivergent community. Among these performances is the Toilet Paper Diaries, by Porcelain Delaney, at the Unity Theatre...

In Ken Womack's "Living The Beatles Legend," the author delves deep into the enigmatic life and untold stories of the unsung hero of the Fab Four, Mal Evans. This is something that he would not have done without the intervention...

https://youtu.be/u2X1zZIGtmE The Good Lie is an American drama film starring Reese Witherspoon.  It was first aired in 2014, written by Margaret Nagle and directed by Phillipe Falardeau but, given the ongoing plight of refugees it is a compelling watch today. The...

Play prompt: Annie and Christabel are dating. Historians dispute this on the grounds of 'inaccuracies' and 'lack of scholastic rigour' and 'the over-interpretation of the fact that women shared bedrooms'. This was my first visit to the Shakespeare North Playhouse...

As the UK gets ready for 'Red Nose Day' on Friday, Doctor Who fans have been thrilled to see David Tennant appearing in trailers for the charity event. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WE5etzosvyw   Back in October, I, like many long-time fans of the show, was delighted...

The latest instalment in the Ant-Man franchise and the Marvel Cinematic Universe, (MCU) as a whole has certainly been divisive, but is it really that bad? The reaction that was supposed to surround this film was the introduction of the...