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Queertet is the first theatre offering as part of the programme of Liverpool Pride, a great idea that highlights some real grass-roots talent to boot. But despite the Nautical but Nice theme of this year???s festival, it wasn???t all plain sailing for...
It???s an odd thing, but actually not unusual that on the hottest, most sweltering days you can wind up watching a show with wintery or Christmassy scenes, and The Last 5 Years has a few of those. In this case, in a venue so tiny you can see every b...
Life In Theatre Productions ??? the company set up earlier this year by city actors Stephen Fletcher and Andrew Schofield ??? will be staging its second show next week. This time, the company is turning its hand to musical theatre with Jason Rober...
A new piece of musical theatre exploring the romantic ideals of love in the modern era premieres at the Lantern Theatre tomorrow (Wednesday July 11). The curiously titled Love and Fish Fillet is a one woman show performed by Meike Holzmann (of Liv...
Liverpool Pride launched in style last night with a booze cruise across the Mersey ??? a rather snazzy first for the annual LGBT event. And here???s another -- Queertet 2012, four short, original LGBT themed plays by local writers produced especia...
They kissed a gull and they liked it! They really really really wanna give a big ARRR! Yes, of all the musical pirate comedy acts out there, Jollyboat has to be our very favourite. And they???re back, back, back with a run of Liverpool shows next ...
Bash: Latter Day Plays is a trilogy of one act pieces by Neil LaBute, in which seemingly nice, virtuous people admit to some very dark deeds indeed. This production is the work of new company said&done, a mix of professionals and recent graduates ...
I Guess I Wish is a new musical written by Yale student Jeremy Lloyd, that had never before been performed in the UK ahead of its premiere this week courtesy of new production company Lights Up Entertainment. Clocking in at just over 50 minutes, i...
This week saw the final episode of The Tragical Past and Mysterious Present of Sodem Hall, this year???s soap opera from Impropriety. Knowing full well what our local impro chums are like having put a few shifts in as an audience member of their 33-...
A UK premiere staged by students from LIPA and funded by a successful crowd-funding campaign takes place at the Unity Theatre next week. A group of eight young directors from all over Europe will present the UK premiere of I Guess I Wish next Wedn...
Fresh from their 33-and-a-half hour non-stop Improvathon earlier in the month, our chums at Impropriety are about to throw themselves into another of their unique annual events ??? a six part, weekly soap opera. The Tragical Past and Mysterious Pr...
Andrew Schofield and Stephen Fletcher have played everything on the Liverpool stage from father and son-in-law to Lennon and McCartney, and recently took that working relationship one step further by going out on their own to direct and stage thei...
If you really really must read another site about arts and culture in this city, let me direct you over to Seven Streets, where I've had a couple of things published recently that are worth a mention here. First of all, it turned out 800 words on ...
The former comedy partner of Austin Powers star Mike Myers will be among the special guests taking to the stage this weekend as part of the 2012 Improvathon. Founded by Impropriety, it is the 3rd annual event of its kind in the city, an entirely i...
Kick Theatre presents a new production of Timberlake Wertenbaker's Our Country???s Good next month. Directed by Donna Lesley Price, the classic piece is set in Australia in 1789. A young lieutenant is directing rehearsals of the first play ever to b...
Producing a decent adaptation of a great tale of gothic decadence on a shoestring budget is a big task, but Script in Hand went about it with gusto. Their version of The Picture of Dorian Gray was an enjoyable telling of the classic story of a man...
The final production of the year from city centre theatre group Grin Productions has just enjoyed two successful nights at the Lantern Theatre. The group exists to encourage new writers, performers and directors, so it was good to go along and cat...
Playwright Lizzie Nunnery rounds off another busy year as her latest touring production makes it to her home town. The Man with the Luggage, an adaptation of Eugene Ionesco's absurdist classic, comes to Hope University???s Capstone Theatre next week...
Back in September, The Kazimier, better known as a venue in its own right, took things off site for a remarkable addition to the AND Festival programme. Atalonia, billed as a tour of a world below the earth's crust, was set up in a disused space a...
The Lantern Theatre will be whisking us off to warmer climes and more innocent times this weekend, as it presents the touring production of Sunny Rhyl by Dividers Productions. A new play by Paul Kelly and directed by Steve Davies, Sunny Rhyl is se...
