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REVIEW: Twisted Christmas, Playhouse Studio
"Christmas is coming, the arts are getting cut/ If you're not doing panto, the stage door's shut" - so gamely began the premise at the heart of Twisted Christmas; that the players had snuck into the Studio out of desperation to find a stage, any s...
Alligator Club's Twisted Christmas
Following hot on the heels of their debut production earlier in the month, playwrights collective The Alligator Club present a last-minute addition to the city's festive theatre schedule next week with Twisted Christmas. The two performances at th...
Actor Scot Williams brings Hope to the Royal Court
He???s been teasing his Twitter followers for a while now, and finally Liverpool actor Scot Williams can reveal all about his latest project. Hope is a brand new stage play that will receive its world premiere at Royal Court Liverpool in March 201...
REVIEW: A Christmas Carol, Lantern Theatre
A two-man Christmas Carol might seem a bit of a gimmicky thing, especially when the famous film and musical versions rely on large casts to create the bustle of Dickensian London. But once Mark Smith and Lewis Bray get into action, the idea works ...
20 Stories High's Tales from the MP3
20 Stories High Young Actors have been on a mission to find out the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth??? about each other. And you can see the results for yourself in Tales From The MP3, a new work being performed at the Bluecoat unti...
REVIEW: 100 Seel Street: The Shadows Speak
Before entering 100 Seel Street, the brief was to wrap up warm, wear sensible shoes and make sure we???ve been to the loo before it started. Words of wisdom for promenade theatre and life itself indeed; and in a small group of no more than a dozen, ...
PurpleCoat's Little Voice
It's been a busy year for Liverpool based PurpleCoat Productions, following on from their collaboration with the Royal Shakespeare Company at the CUC last year. Their production of Titus Andronicus prompted none other than Stephen Fry to donate to...
Six new short plays from the Annexe Writers
Proving there is life after YEP, a group of graduates of the Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse Young Writers programme have teamed up to form a new collective, the Annexe Writers. They will present Remember, Remember, a night of six short plays thi...
REVIEW: Epstein, the Epstein Theatre
Drinking an Epstein real ale in the Epstein theatre waiting for curtain up on Epstein, the show, about Epstein, the Beatles manager, there was a sense the pudding might have been somewhat overegged. Arguably the production the new venue had been w...
REVIEW: Held, Liverpool Playhouse Studio
Held is a finely conceived, beautifully executed new play; a perfect example of the kind of work that audiences should be seeing at the top of the Playhouse, and a memorable piece of art in its own right. The first full length play by Joe Ward Mun...
REVIEW: Blackouts: Twilight of the Idols, Unity Theatre
It's been called 'the drag show at the end of the world', brought to life by a performer who refers himself as a 'drag fabulist'. If that doesn't sound like two of the most wonderfully evocative descriptions of anything, ever, then this won't be t...