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The Royal Court's Christmas shows. Made Up bleddy loves 'em. And this year, the venue has already announced an extension to its run. Good to hear it! The venue says it's "delighted" to announce a two week extension to Little Scouse On The Prairie ...
This winter Action Transport Theatre will present 12 Miles From Nowhere, a new play inspired by the lives, ideas, stories and dreams of people who live in rural communities across the North West. The production makes the rolling countryside the ba...
As much as one can ever recommend something they've never seen, it hopefully won't be too far off the mark to say this really should be a good 'un. Dance company Earthfall returns to Homotopia this year with their award winning 2005 production of ...
All-male dance company The Featherstonehaughs invite you to come and celebrate with them as they take to the stage for the very last time with the acclaimed 2010 work Edits at CUC Liverpool on November . The Featherstonehaughs are one of the most ...
Here's a gallery of pretty atmospheric looking pictures from The Swallowing Dark, the new production from playwright Lizzie Nunnery. It's the first show on the stage of the newly reopened Studio space at the Playhouse,and so, like Anchorman Ron Bu...
It???s fun to see so many productions putting together trailers for their shows, so Trailer Park is going to be a new space on MADEUP.LV that will showcase collections of new theatrical promos. Kicking things off are The Suitcase Ensemble, who have ...
The Everyman may be coming down brick by brick but its spirit lives on, as its new writing festival Everyword goes ahead this year at sister theatre the Playhouse. For anyone aspiring to be a writer, wanting to see a new play in development or wan...
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...
Hold onto your bonnets, LipService are celebrating 21 years of sublime silliness with their cult Bronte spoof Withering Looks. When Maggie Fox and Sue Ryding realised that 2006 was also the 150th anniversary of the death of Charlotte Bronte, they ...
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...
Mersey theatre company Grin Productions is pleased to announce the launch of a new writing group, Writers (Un)Blocked. Held every two weeks, Writers (Un)Blocked is a local workshop that encourages, informs and supports writers in the field of play...
MADEUP loves a bit of Empire campery to liven up a dreary afternoon, and today they once again delivered the goods, cheerfully announcing the pending arrival of international singing sensation Susan Boyle to the theatre. Quite like some kind of bi...
What if one mighty rocket could contain all the glamour, glory and disgrace of the Academy Awards, Olympic figure skating, Club Med and Scientology? That, for an as-yet-unknown reason is the question posed by It's Uniformation Day, fresh from the ...
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...
Ordinarily the beginning of October would be a perfectly acceptable time for the Empire to start decking the halls, wheeling out Aled 'Walking in the Air' Jones and getting excited about the launch of its Christmas show, but nobody was really expe...
As part of its 100th birthday celebrations, the Liverpool Playhouse will re-launch the Studio with the world premi??re of a new play from Lizzie Nunnery, The Swallowing Dark, in a co-production with London???s Theatre503. Directed by Theatre503???s co-...
Liverpool physical theatre duo Tmesis have been up to all sorts. They're premiering a new work in progress this week, coming straight after a trip to Africa, which sounds rather exciting. The company, comprising performers Elinor Randal and Yorgos...
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...
This year???s Liverpool Irish Festival is shaping up with a programme of music, film, drama, heritage, literature and lectures. Highlights include a weekend of free activities down on the Albert Dock, the second Irish Sea Sessions at the Philharmoni...
The final names have been added to the cast of You???ll Never Walk Alone ??? The Legend Of Liverpool FC, a new play coming to the Royal Court next month. The show, which aims to tell the entire 120 year history of the club in 90 minutes, is writte...
