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See, this is why we hate young people. Ideas like this. The Empire theatre has announced its new 'Ticket for a Tenner' initiative, allowing Liverpool students to see a host of its top touring musicals, comedy and more for just ?10 a go (in case yo...
Dame Judi Dench, Cherie Booth QC and Tesco boss Sir Terry Leahy have spoken of their delight upon hearing the Royal Court Liverpool Trust has been successful in raising the funds to begin their massive refurbishment scheme. Today (Friday, December...
This fantastic gallery of pictures comes from city theatre company What We Did Next, who will be recapturing the magic of fairy tales this Christmas with their production of Stephen Sondheim???s Into the Woods. The Tony award-winning musical inter...
Feeling generous? City-based dance organisation MDI will have just five days next week to raise ?2000 in donations from members of the public in the next round of The Big Give Christmas Challenge 2011. The donation challenge follows on from MDI???...
Christmas? Oh, go on then. Let's get things started. MADEUP hasn't accidentally wandered into Desperate Scousewives territory ??? pictured above are former X Factor finalists DivaFever, the headline act of brand new festive variety show Camp as Ch...
How time flies. Construction of the new Everyman on Hope Street will commence on Monday (November 28), with contractors Gilbert-Ash taking over the site from Sloyan Doyle, who have handled the deconstruction of the building since its summer closur...
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...
Our friends at the Phil have, as the Americans like to say, been doing the math. And they've deduced comedian Ken Dodd has spent 89 hours on their stage, cracking some 38,128 jokes at there over the years. Us journos can't resist a good stat, and ...
Grin Productions are heading back to the Lantern Theatre next week (Friday and Saturday December 2 & 3) for their final performances of the year. The first is the premiere of On the Edge, a surreal black comedy from local writer Sam Freeman, descr...
David Morrissey's Macbeth was one of the theatre events of the year and the last production at the Everyman theatre before its closure (and how time flies -- there is now a hole in the street where the venue once stood). From today, a film of the ...
The Playhouse???s Gemma Bodinetz and A Streetcar Named Desire -- should have seen this one coming! The Tennessee Williams classic has been unveiled as one of the highlights of the theatre???s spring season with its artistic director at the helm, and c...
Merseyside Dance Initiative hosts a screening, talk and question and answer session with director Alex Ruben tomorrow (Monday, November 21). His film NEWSREEL 1 is described as " a poetic recording of social, cultural and political events from the...
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...
It just doesn't feel like November without DaDaFest. Over the years, its promise of original, thought-provoking art and performance as well as the regular-as-clockwork exposure of Mat Fraser???s bits, have become one of the highlights of Liverpool???s...
This is a really interesting idea -- community theatre company Grin Productions is furthering its dedication to new writing with its ambitious new plan to stage five brand new plays all written, rehearsed and performed within 24 hours. Playwrights...
Club Geek Chic, most excellently described as "the night out for Liverpool???s discerning socialites", returns this weekend after a break of nearly two years, with what organisers are calling a "1980s themed extravaganza!" Gemma Aldcroft and Karen...
One of the West End???s biggest hits of recent years, Tony Award-winning musical comedy Avenue Q is coming to Liverpool after nearly five years of mischief, bad behaviour and political incorrectness in the West End. In collaboration with Cameron Mac...
Tomorrow night (Monday) sees a special screening of the film Backbeat, as part of the successful Clapperboard Presents??? fundraisers. After the film ??? the 1994 dramatisation of the life of ???fifth Beatle??? Stuart Sutcliffe ??? one of its star...
That Ray Quinn's a nice sort, so did his bit for the Empire this week, where he is currently performing, by helping to launch a new theatre membership scheme. Quinn, currently starring as Danny in Grease, unveiled the brand new ATG Theatre Card ??...
In the immortal words of Rolf Harris, can you guess what it is yet? Eh? EH?! Presumably the juxtaposition of a clock and some oranges in the picture above will have made it clear enough that a new production of A Clockwork Orange is coming our way...
