Review: Welsh National Opera at Liverpool Empire

Performance & Film.

Review: Welsh National Opera at Liverpool Empire

The Welsh national Opera’s brief stay in Liverpool - bringing three shows to the Liverpool Empire - demonstrates that opera has something for today’s modern audiences. All it needs is a makeover…

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Burning Bright: The Lantern Theatre

The Lantern Liverpool has now been illuminating the creative fringe scene in Liverpool for over a year. Mother and daughter, Margaret Connell (Creative Director) and Siobhan Noble (Marketing and Events Manager) took over the venue last autumn and this week the venue hosted a celebration to mark twelve months crammed with culture, home-grown premiers and [...]

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Review: Argo

Inspired by real life events, Argo is the story of an extraordinary joint Canadian-CIA mission that took place in Iran during the 1979 revolution. Despite the embroidered dramatisation of this remarkable covert operation, Argo is a surprisingly dull retelling of a fascinating piece of world history. Written by Chris Terrio, Argo is based on Joshuah [...]

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Review: A Government Inspector

Gogol’s Russian comedy of errors gets a makeover as a broad Northern farce in A Government Inspector.

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Radar: Debris Field at The Bluecoat

Done Titanicin’? Not yet, it seems. Hot on the heels of the impressive ‘Treasured’ event at the Cathedral comes an altogether more intimate and introspective exploration of that fateful journey, from award-winning young poet Chris McCabe and poets Simon Barraclough and Isobel Dixon - an experience that charts a course comfortably clear of cliche. “The [...]

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Radar: Dickens Double-Bill at St George’s Hall

A Dickens double-bill at St George’s Hall brings together the grand old venue and one of the world’s greatest writers one more time.

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Review: Held at the Playhouse Studio

Held has elements that are less successful than others, but amounts to another powerful and confident play in the Studio.

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Radar: Little Forks, A Highland Tale

Memory, landscape and atmospherics combine to create something magical and evocative in Rebecca Joy Sharp’s latest exploration of that space where sound, vision and storytelling collide. Visiting The Bluecoat this Saturday, Little Forks is an immersive experience that promises to envelop you like a Scottish mist rolling in from the Atlantic. Two voices tell a [...]

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If Walls Could Talk: 100 Seel Street

We’ve talked before about the city’s ghostly army of empty spaces. And of how we need, as a collective, to rethink our way towards reanimating them. So, imagine our surprise when, a week after our feature on Made-Here’s pop up Christmas festival, our friend Lizzie Nunnery calls to tell us of her latest project - [...]

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Review: Steptoe And Son

Kneehigh takes on an old comedy classic and gives it an imaginative twist. But is the result fit for the scrapyard or knacker’s yard?

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Radar: Five Broken Cameras, FACT

If you’ve not seen this piercing and powerful documentary, we strongly suggest you head over to FACT this Thursday. Shot over five years, the film documents a village and its fight against illegal Jewish settlers on the West Bank. It was a struggle (or, more correctly, it is a struggle) that involved assaults and atrocities, [...]

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Radar: Wirral International Film Festival

Wirral is set to welcome film makers and lovers from around the world for the fifth year running. The Wirral International Film Festival begins on the 12th November showcasing music videos, short and feature films as well as documentaries. Vesbim Media have hosted the event since 2008 and are hoping it can give the chance [...]

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Review: Skyfall

In response to the so-called ‘Bourne effect’, the longest-running film franchise in history saw Daniel Craig’s (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Cowboys & Aliens) ruthless and flawed Bond as the answer, but now in its 50th year the 007 series has returned to more familiar territory. With the release of Skyfall, director Sam Mendes [...]

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