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Dreamboats & Petticoats by Laurence Marks & Maurice GranDirector: Bob ThomsonReviewer: Ann BawtreeIt would be interesting to take a group of teenagers to see this production. They might well feel it was a period drama. So it is, to some extent and yet the story is universal. Boy falls for wrong girl, right girl consoles [...]

EvitaMusic: Andrew Lloyd WebberLyrics: Tim RiceDirectors: Bob Thomson & Bill KenwrightReviewer: Ian Cain The astounding brilliance of the Andrew Lloyd-Webber/Tim Rice partnership is surely embodied to best effect in their spectacular musical biography of Eva Duarte de Peron, ‘Evita.’ With more than twenty major awards to its credit and featuring some of the most famous [...]

You Really Couldn’t Make It UpWriters: Michael & Tom ChaplinDirector: Max Roberts Reviewer: Ian Cain Hot on the heels of Newcastle United Football Club’s relegation from the Premiership to the Championship, Live Theatre presents ‘You Really Couldn’t Make It Up’, a follow-up production to Michael and Tom Chaplin’s original piece, ‘You Couldn’t Make It Up’, [...]

Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare Director: Ben Horslen and John Risebero Reviewer: Honour Bayes In the cooling arches of the beautifully refurbished St Stephen’s in Hampstead a very gentile evening is taking place. Antic Disposition’s production of Much Ado About Nothing may lack a raucous joie de vivre, but it is a very [...]

Cabaret by Kender & EbbDirector: Rufus NorrisChoreographer: Javier De FrutosReviewer: Clare HowdonRufus’s Norris’s production of Cabaret has been on quite a journey. Since opening to a mixture of reviews at The Lyric Theatre in 2006, it began a nationwide tour in Birmingham in May of last year and is currently playing at The Lowry Theatre, [...]

Write Me A Murder By Frederick Knott Director: Ian Dickens Reviewer: Ian Cain The penultimate offering of Ian Dickens’ Summer Repertory Season is a good old-fashioned murder mystery entitled ‘Write Me A Murder’ by Frederick Knott. The action takes place at Rodingham Manor, the ancestral home of the Rodingham family. As the story begins, the [...]

The Hypochondriac by MoliereAdapted by Roger McGoughDirector: Gemme BodinetzReviewer: Marie KennyLaughter is the best medicine. It’s also free, unlike the medical bills of someone diagnosed with every illness that ever existed.Wealthy gentleman Argan faces a never ending stream of invoices for pills and potions in ‘The Hypochondriac’, a co-production between the Liverpool Playhouse and the [...]

Women on the Verge of HRT by Marie Jones Director: Noreen Kershaw Reviewer: Jacqui Senaun Women on the Verge of HRT, the title itself tells the story. This could be the story of so many women today. Indeed from the start you could be on the stage yourself. Although the set is simple, it is [...]