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There's another Light Night coming up, the after-hours culture event with exciting and unusual happenings for all the family across the city. More than 50 special events will be taking place across Liverpool's museums and art spaces into the night...
Phoenix Dance Theatre returns to the Liverpool Playhouse next week with Reflected, a programme of four contrasting and musically diverse dance works. The company has a strong reputation for presenting engaging, moving and entertaining mixed progra...
Everybody's been talking about the results of a recent poll among comedians that put Liverpool down as the toughest place to gig. Some 18% of the professionals questioned by Dave TV said this city was the hardest to get a laugh in. In all honesty,...
After a run of sell out performances last year, the Unity Theatre is welcoming back local theatre company CJ Productions with Red Skies from May 11 - 14. Almost 4000 people on Merseyside lost their lives in the air attacks of Hitler???s blitzkrieg, ...
Made Up is just about sobering up from last week's launch of Mo*Nique's, a new burlesque/ cabaret venue in the city centre. There was candy floss, drag queens in cages and lots of chablis at the event, which showcased the venue as a promising pros...
It's full steam ahead (groan) for our friends at Spike Theatre, with two new projects on the go that sound fantastic. The company lost out on its Arts Council funding in the recent cuts, but it hasn't stopped them throwing themselves into business...
A company that has performed everywhere from wine bars to secure hospitals will present the first ever theatrical production to be hosted by Studio 2 Parr Street this weekend. Written and performed by Paul Braithwaite and Kevin Brannagan, Living w...
Well, we knew it had to happen, and now it is official - the Everyman as we know and love it will officially close on Saturday, July 2. So much big news - where to start? The final production, Macbeth with David Morrissey and Jemma Redgrave, has b...
Today???s arts cuts - ?100m - would barely cover the cost of two Apache helicopters, if the lamentations of the liberal Twitterati are more than Chinese whispers. We???ve been spending that kind of money bombing Libya every night, apparently, if t...
The hunt is on for more new writing as a city theatre company has launched a search for submissions for its 2012 season. Drawlight Productions - who debuted with Liverpool's Theatre Uncut contribution last weekend - has put out the call for new pl...
Yesterday saw the launch of the second Write Now festival, a showcase of new one-act plays taking place between April 15 ??? 23 at the Actors??? Studio on Seel Street. Eight works have been chosen to be performed as part of the event, and were plugged...
Today saw actor David Morrissey in town, alongside Jemma Redgrave, to start up the publicity machine for Macbeth, that will be the final production to be staged at the Everyman before its closure. It seemed a bit of a hectic schedule for all invol...
Congratulations to lovely Liverpool-based duo Jollyboat, who have won the 2011 Musical Comedy Award. Described on their Twitter page as ???brothers, comedians, and most of all, pirates???, they have been performing under the Jollyboat name for a year ...
It's been an exciting week, with so much going on, why, it just couldn't all be contained on this site. I'll have to direct you elsewhere. I had the pleasure of a quick chat with comedy god Peter Serafinowicz a few days ago, to talk about him comi...
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...
What a day it's been. Here's a picture of Mickey Mouse to cheer us all up. Alongside Disney colleagues old and new, he's heading to town for Disney Live! Mickey???s Music Festival, that comes to the BT Convention Centre Liverpool from April 22 - 25....
A well known rabbit attempts to stop an alien blowing up the earth; in a Berlin caf??, a professor pleads with her student not to commit an atrocious act; and in an infamous London department store, the weirdest ever episode of Are You Being Served...
More great comedy news for the city today as the Empire announced that Stephen Merchant is about to embark on his first ever stand-up comedy tour which will come to Liverpool Empire this autumn. The Emmy, BAFTA and Golden Globe award winning co-cr...
"A view into the dark and seedy world of 19th century Paris" is promised with a new production at the Unity this month - Memoirs of a Hermaphrodite, described as ???a passionate mix of Orlando, Chatterton and Hedder Gabbler???, is a poignant story of ...
News of two very exciting comedy happenings came our way this week that both sound like events that will really be miss-at-your-own-peril sort of nights. And as it happens, they're on at the same venue in the space of a week - the concert room at ...
