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Possibly a suitable post to follow on from a Doug Stanhope review, Thirsty is a new, acclaimed touring show inspired by and based on our nation???s love affair with alcohol. Fusing live music, verbatim text and physical theatre, theatre company The ...
Two Liverpool theatres are offering chances for supporters of the venues get get involved immortalising themselves as part of their massive regeneration campaigns. The Royal Court Liverpool Trust has just launched its Adopt-a-Seat campaign, to ren...
If you really really must read another site about arts and culture in this city, let me direct you over to Seven Streets, where I've had a couple of things published recently that are worth a mention here. First of all, it turned out 800 words on ...
Fringe First winner Inua Ellams brings his latest play to the Unity tonight and tomorrow (Friday and Saturday) ahead of a run at the National Theatre. Black T-shirt Collection is a new story about two brothers building a global t-shirt brand. On t...
The team behind the Tales From Haunted Liverpool series return with a brand new show this Easter: Tales From Charles Dickens. Staged in a city claimed by Dickens himself as his favourite after London, and performed in a venue he described as the m...
The latest Young Everyman Playhouse season continues this weekend with a promenade comedy production based on Britain???s surveillance society called You Are Being Watched, to be performed at Static Gallery on Saturday and Sunday (March 10 and 11)...
The hottest theatre ticket in town this week isn???t anything to do with a Streetcar Named Desire or Rogers and Hammerstein, believe you me (or perhaps don???t). It???s more to do with a one man show from a bloke better known for talking to a sock on hi...
The former comedy partner of Austin Powers star Mike Myers will be among the special guests taking to the stage this weekend as part of the 2012 Improvathon. Founded by Impropriety, it is the 3rd annual event of its kind in the city, an entirely i...
Kick Theatre presents a new production of Timberlake Wertenbaker's Our Country???s Good next month. Directed by Donna Lesley Price, the classic piece is set in Australia in 1789. A young lieutenant is directing rehearsals of the first play ever to b...
MADEUP is hearing good things about the first production from Young Everyman Playhouse (YEP),that has launched a new series of events with a site-specific performance in the unusual surrounds of Camp and Furnace (the old A Foundation). YEP, the Ev...
This week sees the start of a special theatre festival at the Unity, which is collaborating with acclaimed producers Fuel for a season of what they call "immersive, experimental, innovative, exciting shows showcasing some of the best new work prod...
Alan Ayckbourn???s trilogy of comedies The Norman Conquests will open at the Liverpool Playhouse in May. Audiences can enjoy Table Manners, Living Together and Round and Round the Garden individually, although, and of course they'll say this; "the e...
For those checking out the final day of the Threshold Festival today (Sunday), there is a whole programme of acts on at the Lantern Theatre, headlined later this evening by comedy duo Undercover Blondde (pictured). The pair (double 'D', naturally)...
1 Beach Road is the new play from the award-winning RedCape Theatre, coming to the Unity on Tuesday, February 21 and described as a tale of ???friendship, coastal erosion, Alzheimers, synchronized swimming and trying to turn back the tide???. Draw...
A new adaptation of an Oscar Wilde classic by a brand new theatre company will take place at The Actors Studio later this month. Script in Hand productions will present The Picture of Dorian Gray at the Seel Street theatre on February 17 and 18. S...
The official groundbreaking at the new Everyman took place today, as the theatre launched its appeal for the final funds to complete the project. This means building work on the site is now underway. The building project -- due for completion in w...
Madcap comedy trio and friends of MADE UP the Legion of Doom are back, back, BACK next week, with a new spin on their regular Comedy Knights at Mello Mello. The boys -- Rob Bond, Oli Bond and Lee Hithersay -- started out performing sketches at the...
City choir Sense of Sound has announced the brand new Voices Festival, a three day celebration of a cappella singing, set to take place at Liverpool???s Bluecoat and Black-E arts centres in March. From hip hop to barbershop and contemporary jazz to ...
Hope In Boxes and A Light In Every Window are two poignant and intriguing new plays by award-winning writer Nicola Schofield, coming to The Lantern Theatre for one night only following their premiere at The Lowry. Hope In Boxes sees two grandchild...
Touring company Platform 4 brings its latest production of Macbeth to the Unity next week. Employing sparse staging whilst keeping the play intact, compelling, and fresh, the company creates a ???taut electric psychodrama??? that is brought alive by s...
