Reviews

Christmas has come early for panto lovers in St Helens this year as the Theatre Royal’s October offering ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’ provides the perfect half-term treat for all the family. From the instant the dastardly giant’s voice rumbles through...

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...

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...

Jodie Comer gives a sensational performance in Prima Facie, a new one-woman show in London's West End. Comer left us in awe in an entirely charismatic and emotional performance that had the audience gripped for the entirety of the 100-minute...

Irish post-punk band Fontaines DC have had a busy few years since releasing their first Album, Dogrel, in 2019. The five-piece band from Dublin are currently on their UK and Ireland tour for their brand-new album, Skint Fia, and on...

King Richard tells the story of the father of two of the greatest athletes of all time, Venus and Serena Williams, and how he trained them in their early years.

Goldilocks and the Three Bears stretches back to the mid-nineteenth century, but St Helens Theatre Royal gives us a modern take on this magical fairy tale with a circus twist. The Regal Entertainments’ pantomime provides a mix of madcap comedy...

Jamaica Making: The Theresa Roberts Art Collection at the Victoria Gallery & Museum A beautiful collection showing the rich past of Jamaica, D. Emma Roberts has organised the first all-Jamaican art exhibition in Merseyside. Jamaican Making opened this weekend, displaying over...

It isn't often a play starts with audience chants against the "Tory friggin' government". But when the atmosphere gets whipped up into a frenzy, like it did tonight, you get the feeling it's going to be an energetic night. Cherry Jezebel,...

When Tom Macrae and Dan Gillespie Sells’ dynamic coming-of-age musical burst on to the scene in 2017, it quickly gained a reputation as the show that everybody was talking about. Merseyside audiences became the latest regional crowd to get a...