The Star review " Merseyside music hall reopens with bizarre bill
Liverpool PlayhouseThis celebration of the 19th-century Star theatre is neither boring nor educational " just as Ken Dodd advised its writer, Michael Wynne Liverpool's theatres seem to be in a retrospective frame of mind at present. The Everyman has just announced a return to its first permanent repertory ensemble since the 1970s. Meanwhile the Playhouse has gone even further back to its source, recalling the days wh…