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MADEUP is pleased to hear that Tell Tale Theatre Company is returning with a new production next month. Users is inspired by the characters and events of Irvine Welsh???s Trainspotting. Described as ???an ensemble piece with a mixture of devised and s...
Paperwork, which has a final performance tomorrow at the Unity (Saturday May 5), is "a dark comedy inspired by the bureaucratic systems of life and the act of waiting". Theatre company Caustic Widows invites you to delve into the darker side of hu...
A UK premiere staged by students from LIPA and funded by a successful crowd-funding campaign takes place at the Unity Theatre next week. A group of eight young directors from all over Europe will present the UK premiere of I Guess I Wish next Wedn...
Celebrated playwright Frank McGuinness???s new play The Match Box will have its world premi??re in Liverpool this June. Award-winning actor and director Lia Williams will direct Leanne Best in the role of Sal at the Playhouse Studio from June 14 to J...
Liverpool Central Station closed this week for a six month refurb, a move that has left commuters mighty peeved indeed. Inconvenienced? Why not dance those blues away! In the great traditions of Michael Jackson's Bad video and, erm, Starlight Expr...
Interesting news from the Royal Court, which has announced two new shows in conjunction with Lodestar Theatre Company and The Liverpool Shakespeare Festival. This Autumn, the bard will be back at the venue for the first time in 15 years, with prod...
Here's an absolutely stunning set of production pictures from Henry V, currently running at the Playhouse theatre. The show, a collaboration with Shakespeare's Globe and directed by its artistic director Dominic Dromgoole, is an authentic and visu...
The Martini Lounge Burlesque and Variety Show brings its Spring Fling showcase to the new Epstein Theatre later this month. On Saturday April 28, the newly revamped venue will boast a number of debutantes, starting with an act regarded as ???burle...
Comedian Laurence Clark promises ???a personal, frighteningly relevant, one-man mission and hilarious journey??? -- with his latest show, Health Hazard, coming to the Unity Theatre on May 2. Clark, from West Derby, is a comedian, presenter, writer and...
UNFORTUNATELY, THIS PERFORMANCE HAS HAD TO BE POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE DUE TO ILLNESS. Harpist and playwright Rebecca Joy Sharp will be presenting a unique and original new work to accompany Liverpool's marking of the Titanic centenary and t...
Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse marked the opening night of Henry V tonight, directed by Shakespeare???s Globe Artistic Director Dominic Dromgoole and with History Boys star Jamie Parker in the titular role. Henry V is now on at the Playhouse until...
Liverpool actor David Yip's critically acclaimed Gold Mountain returns to the Unity Theatre this week. First staged in 2010, it tells the tale of David Yee, trying to piece together the broken jigsaw of his father???s life ??? exploring his ramblings ...
The next work from the writers of Grin Productions will be 3 Women, a series of monologues by three up-and-coming new playwrights. The Game is the debut play by writer Craig Arnold, directed by Ben Hallworth and starring Donna Lesley-Price (Kick T...
Liverpool annual late-night arts and culture festival LightNight returns on May 18. LightNighters can expect special underground tours, a mass sing-along, candle-lit labyrinth, fascinating exhibitions and open studios, Chinese arts showcase, archi...
The bi-annual TiLT Dance Platform returns for its first showcase of 2012 this week. On Wednesday and Thursday (April 4 and 5), the Kazimier will play host to two exciting evenings of dance performance from the best up-and-coming dance companies fr...
The Suitcase Ensemble is hosting some creative workshops dedicated to the local legend of Spring-Heeled Jack, described as "a proper Victorian Bogeyman (....or was he?) last spotted clinging to St. Francis Xavier's church in Everton". The collecti...
A beautiful new play exploring the remarkable life of one of literature???s greatest writers, Mary Shelley, opens at the Liverpool Playhouse from May 9 to 12. Written by award-winning playwright Helen Edmundson, Mary Shelley is a bold exploration of...
Fresh from their 33-and-a-half hour non-stop Improvathon earlier in the month, our chums at Impropriety are about to throw themselves into another of their unique annual events ??? a six part, weekly soap opera. The Tragical Past and Mysterious Pr...
As Young Everyman and Playhouse go from strength to strength at the minute, there is a chance to see what they've been doing behind the scenes next week. The theatres' Young Technicians are getting ready to showcase a larger than life piece of pub...
It could be coincidental timing for a new piece of writing set against the backdrop of a Merseyside derby, as one might be due by the time this premiere comes round. The Match is an original play forming part of the Write Now one act festival, whi...
