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Sink or Swim for Spike Theatre
Great news for Spike Theatre, which now has everything in place to tour its latest show, Sink or Swim, early next year. The show was performed as a work in progress as part of the Everyword festival a few months back, and will return to the Playho...
Royal Court's Hitchhiker's Guide to Fazakerley
Christmas ??? a time for forgiving and forgetting, and at least one of those applies at the Royal Court, where patience finally snapped with no-show star David Gest last week and lawsuits are now a possibility*. Never mind all that - on to the next ...
REVIEW: Nightmare on Lime Street, Royal Court
Week two of Nightmare on Lime Street, and star of the show David Gest still hasn't checked in with his paying public. The Royal Court, seemingly lacking a plan B, have handled the situation in an unusual way and chosen not to really acknowledge th...
Jollyboat launch YouTube channel
Musical comedy brothers Jollyboat (above, in Cheerios bath) are celebrating the launch of their new YouTube channel with a promise to upload a new song every week. Tommy and Ed Croft, best known for their pirate-themed pop parodies, set up the Jol...
REVIEW: Next!, Unity Theatre
Next! is a one-man dark comedy on its second outing. Devised by actor Graham Hicks and director Chris Tomlinson, it first came to the Unity last year as part of its Making Art programme. Its recent two night run to rapturous audiences showed it ha...
Maysoon Zayid's Funny Arabs gig at the Epstein
Liverpool Arabic Arts Festival???s Funny Arabs brings New York based Arab comedienne Maysoon Zayid to Liverpool for the first time this month. She'll be playing the Epstein Theatre on November 25. Funny Arabs is billed as "a laugh about living in th...