All in FRINGE
To celebrate the Halloween season and following the success of What Stalks the Night? at Croxteth Hall last year, this October www.ullaloom.co.uk">Ullaloom presents another frightful show taking place in the hall's old dining room. Murder at The M...
Liverpool has been chosen as the only British city outside London to feature in the European-wide Exchange Radical Moments live art festival, taking place on November 11 -- 11.11.11 -- across the continent. And the city's contribution will be like...
As the artists working from Metal at Edge Hill train station have been archiving things they uncover about the place, they came upon letters and other information relating to the Edge Hill Brass Band, the station???s own musical group who were super...
Members of Happystorm Theatre Company thought they were in for the long arm of the law this week after realising they'd parked a van full of violent-looking props in the middle of the Labour Party Conference site. Joint artistic director Matthew G...
Last week Unity Theatre hosted a number of new works that had been supported by their Making Art scheme, in which they provide a small bursary and technical back up to new talent. I caught a couple, although with a minimal amount of information ab...
Following an acclaimed debut in 2009, Liverpool theatre company 20 Stories High will tour Laurence Wilson???s award-winning play Blackberry Trout Face to national venues, schools and communities throughout September and November. Directed by the com...
Making Art is the name of the Unity Theatre???s artist development programme, and it is kicking off their autumn season with not one but five new pieces that have been made possible by the scheme. It provides a ?100 loan as well as technical, mark...
I had the pleasure tonight of catching the revised and rejuvenated production of Spike Theatre's The Games before it heads up to the Edinburgh Festival. Could it be too much of a sweeping statement to say you'd be hard pressed to find a funnier th...
Liverpool-based community theatre group Grin Productions are returning to The Lantern Theatre this week with new play Mexico. Written by resident playwright Wes Williams and directed by John Maguire (Mrs Bojangles, Write Now Festival 2011), Mexico...
It's fun and games this week at Studio Liverpool, with an Edinburgh Festival comedy preview and the return of an old(ish) favourite. On Wednesday (July 27), comedy trio Making Faces will be trying out their new show Introspectacles. Dan Curtis, Li...
I went down to see the second Come On Girls! show last night at Studio Liverpool. A chat show spoof, the idea is simple and well-executed, and left my companions for the evening (who work in theatre), impressed by the possibilities of the format. ...
Dream On tells the story of wide-eyed Rochdale lad Paul (Bradley Cross), on holiday at a Welsh campsite with his overbearing mother when he meets wayward Londoner George (Joe Gosling). Mutually intrigued, the spark between them soon turns into som...
The Lantern Theatre is on the hunt for a new owner. The fringe venue was established on Blundell Street in the Baltic Triangle area in 2009, but now family and other business commitments mean current managers Liam and Clare Keating can no longer c...
You never quite know what you're going to get when you step inside Elevator Studios and take the lift up to the fifth floor, but time and again Studio Liverpool has proved it is well worth taking a chance. Last time its in-house theatre company Tr...
It???s been a good ???un this week, with the chance to see a few new things, as well as seeing old favourites in a different way. The Spike Theatre Variety Pack fundraiser was held at the Kazimier on Thursday night, to help them in their effort to sen...
After a successful run in 2009, the Unity theatre is welcoming back award-winning local company Boom Boom Baby Productions with their comedy production If The Shoe Fits!. With the tagline "sex, booze and Jimmy Choos!", the play - which been made i...
A Liverpool-based sketch group are preparing for their first headline show. Comedy performers the Legion of Doom have been a regular act on the alternative stand up scene and have developed their full-length play as a result of the characters and ...
Musical Comedy Award winners Jollyboat have had an exciting few months, and although they've been performing on bills all over the place, tonight's gig was the biggest headliner in Liverpool for some time as it was a taster of the show they plan t...
From the international corporate malevolence of Disney to something a tad more grass roots now. Next weekend sees the nationwide protest of Theatre Uncut, an evening of performances of new short plays that the writers have given the nod to be used...
It???s been one of those sneaky weeks, where on the surface it might not have looked like there was much to go out and see, but after a bit of investigation there was just loads to find going on. When I came home to Twitter just how much I???d enjoyed...
