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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...
Take a look at this High Definition video of the whole of the second part of the Macula Spectacular this weekend. While the projection on the Liver Building showed a figurative history of the city, the projection that followed on the new Museum of...
If you haven't seen the Macula Spectacular at the Pier Head, then there's one more chance to catch it tonight, and it is a seriously unmissable event. There's been attempts at projected light shows off the city's buildings before that have never q...
Here's something a bit different. Later this month, the community arts space the Black-E will play host to a rare and important new production by the Liverpool-based company Opera Europe. Dardanus (Controlled) is a new version of a Jean-Philippe R...
And so, without further ado ??? for of that there has been plenty over the years ??? the long awaited Museum of Liverpool finally opened to the public today. Liver birds were on hand to meet, greet and gab with the crowd, Phil Redmond was mumbling a t...
Some amusing news to give us a little bit of cheer on this rainy Monday is that classical music star Rhydian Roberts is coming to Liverpool in the touring production of Grease this winter. Whoever wrote the press release amused themselves no end s...
The city's carnival season is well underway, and as part of Brouhaha???s 2011 programme, the Unity will be hosting showcase performance Diversity In Dance on Tuesday (July 19). This year acts include companies from The Netherlands, Norway and Spain ...
Today sees the start of Brazilica, the authentic Rio-style Brazilian samba carnival in Liverpool city centre promising to be "the most exciting, exotic and vibrant spectacle of 2011". MADEUP is assured the last few sequins and feathers are being s...
Naughty but nice burlesque night The Canary Cage has returned to its Baby Blue home and is celebrating in style. A mix of the gothic, variety and cheeky vintage style, it sounds like the evening, run by Kelly Coalmine, is something a bit different...
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...
Here are some beautiful pictures taken from the Everyman finale. How to describe it for those who couldn't be there? Hm. It all began with a brass band and a big yellow digger making their way up Hope Street towards the theatre in a New Orleans fu...
This afternoon the Everyman was open to the public for the final time. The backstage area was opened up to nose around, the lobby was being painted by a cartoonist, 'undertakers' were wandering the building, and in the auditorium, a simple but eff...
For those who fancy a bit of ruff this weekend (geddit!) there is still a chance to see a performance of the rather grand sounding period piece The Vindictive Duchess in Aigburth tonight (Saturday, July 2). Presented by the Candlelight Theatre Com...
Well, the day has finally come, and MADEUP will be reporting on the closure of the Everyman and the big finale over the course of the weekend. The theatre has been asking the public for their memories and it will be exciting and poignant to hear t...
The Liverpool Shakespeare Festival makes a welcome return to the city this summer. After a haitus in 2010 due to lack of funding, it sounds very much as if the event plans to make up for lost time. The fest, brainchild of Lodestar Theatre Company,...
City-based company Annulled Theatre debuts its comedy production Failure Teaches Success at the Unity from tomorrow (Tuesday, June 28) until Thursday. The play focuses on a group of struggling actors who have formed a theatre in education company ...
City-based MATE Drama Workshop bring their latest production The Yarn to the Unity tonight (June 23) until Saturday. Written by Rob Brannen, it tells the story of villagers of a rural northern community in the 1800s weaving together a patchwork of...
News today of the July 2 celebrations marking the Everyman's closure. Sounds like there won't be a dry eye on Hope Street as the theatre ends its last day with a finale courtesy of Slung Low, the brilliantly imaginative theatre company that took a...
This is a great idea and sounds like a lot of fun - Liverpool's first 'Photo Marathon' competition, that will have snappers running around town to capture the events of one day in the city. All enthusiastic photographers are invited to take part i...
The Playhouse has announced its autumn season, and with it, begun to reveal how it's going to get around the loss of sister theatre the Everyman following its closure next month. Yet the more things change, the more they stay the same - the Playho...
