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They might not play a brass instrument between them. They might not be able to get over the day their musical career was thwarted. But something about the tradition of British brass bands has inspired them??? Look at us Now is an intriguing new perf...
Tonight was the press launch of Farmaggedon, the Halloween spectacular featuring three houses of horror all hidden away on Formby farmland, where no-one can hear you scream. Had it all been real, I'd have been chainsawed to death by zombies on at ...
Musical drama The Last 5 Years is the latest offering from Liverpool theatre group What We Did Next, who will be staging the play at the Kazimier this week to launch their autumn season. Written by award winning composer Jason Robert Brown, the on...
MADEUP is already stockpiling the tissues for this one. Multi award-winning Theatre Ad Infinitum, one of the massive success stories of this year's Edinburgh Fringe, invites you on a journey of life, death, and enduring love with their latest prod...
English National Ballet's Strictly Gershwin will be visiting the Liverpool Empire this autumn after an acclaimed run at London???s Royal Albert Hall. The show premiered in 2008 and continues a successful series of in-the-round ballet presentations. ...
Fuse: New Theatre for Young People are going on a bear hunt. The company will spend a day searching far and wide for a bear in the surroundings of Sefton Park Palm House. They promise lots of fun tip toe-ing through caves, squelching through mud a...
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...
If You Didn???t Like That One... and I Am Somebody! are two new short plays by Grin Productions receiving their premiere this week during a free evening of performance at The Fly in the Loaf pub on Hardman Street. The show starts at 8pm on Thursday ...
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...
Tell Tale Theatre have made it to the last 20 in Sky Arts' Starstruck competition. The city-based theatre group could win the chance to perform a play in the West End -- but they need your vote. The group put on an impressive production of Orwell'...
The autumn season at the Playhouse is gearing up to begin with the return of one of Capital of Culture year???s smash-hit productions: Tartuffe. Originally commissioned and presented by the Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse in 2008 to huge critical a...
A hard-hitting, award-winning play about the horrors of modern day slavery is coming to the Unity. The subject is so pertinent, there will even be an academic conference running alongside the performances. Feelgood Theatre bring their production S...
Right folks, it's time to get things back on track. And who better to lead the way than the Caped Crusader himself? Just when we could all do with a superhero, Batman Live heads to the Echo Arena next month. There have already been good reports fr...
It's somewhat horribly ironic that the last story on MADEUP was about Liverpool Pride, because what has been happening in the days since then has been the complete and total opposite. Last Saturday afternoon was a welcoming, joyful and inspiration...
This weekend saw the second annual Liverpool Pride, a great day with something for everybody. The march kick-starting the event was as poignant and celebratory as is was last year, and the waterfront proved to be a fantastic festival venue (althou...
The Playhouse begins a "significant" countdown today (August 3), that heralds 100 days until the historic Williamson Square venue???s centenary. In 1911 the Liverpool Repertory company was born before changing its name to the Liverpool Playhouse six...
Here are some pictures and video from The Day the Earth Tipped, a live piece of aerial theatre that took place in the grounds of Liverpool's Anglican cathedral last night. Performed by the city's own Wired aerial theatre, it was an ambitious and e...
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...
This might just be the most poignant moment of the whole Everyman closure thus far -- the theatre is to auction off its seats and interior pillars. From today (July 28) members of the public can bid to get their very own bit of the Everyman in a s...
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...
