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New play 12, an adaptation of the Reginald Rose classic 12 Angry Men, premieres at the Lantern Theatre this week. Walton-based playwright Shaun Fagan, who also stars as the foreman of the jury in 12, is a member of YEP, the Everyman and Playhouse ...
Some of the best known faces on the Liverpool stage have announced they are teaming up for a brand new Christmas show this year. Stephen Fletcher, Andrew Schofield, Eithne Brown, Alan Stocks, Helen Carter, Rachel Rae, Keddy Sutton and Paul Duckwor...
This motley crew pictured above, as you might guess, are bringing a bit of Gilbert and Sullivan fun to the masses this month with another great British tradition of jovality and hope: Outdoor summer theatre. Picnics and plastic ponchos at the read...
The Ugly Spirit, a macabre slice of theatre that delves deep into the minds of troubled conjoined twins, will be performed at the Bluecoat as part of DaDaFest next week (August 21 & 22). A new piece by Liverpool-based Fittings Multimedia Arts, The...
Toxteth-based community theatre group 20 Stories High has been nominated for the chance to win ?5000 to expand their programme, and need public votes to be in with a chance. Lloyds Banking Group Community Fund provides funding to organisations wor...
Annie is this year???s production from the Liverpool Empire Stage Experience, which you can catch this week. More than 100 local young performers will be involved in the project, which gives them just two weeks to rehearse and put on a full scale mu...
It isn???t every day a theatre company promises an experience that will leave audience members unsure whether to laugh, cry or be sick, but that is the intent of Municipal Theatre London, which is previewing a new work in Liverpool next week before ...
As the Playhouse's recent production of Alan Aykbourn's Norman Conquest showed, the theatre knows good things happen in threes. And so, following the huge successes of Tartuffe and The Hypochondriac, the venue will complete a trilogy of Roger McGo...
You might remember Come On Girls!, the live chat show/ comedy evening from some of the talented ladies of Impropriety. It ran for a few 'episodes' this time last year at Studio Liverpool, featuring musical guests, interviews, fun, games and genera...
As Combo in This Is England, he put in one of the most truly terrifying turns in modern British cinema, and went on to rub shoulders with the cream of Hollywood in several Martin Scorsese projects. Fortunately, Stephen Graham doesn???t appear to b...
Is Hairspray the new Chicago? After a spectacular run at the Empire in 2012, the show returns to Liverpool next year, with tickets going on sale tomorrow (Monday, July 30). Stage and screen star Mark Benton will lead the company of the award-winni...
It's genuinely exciting to hear that Liverpool's own Tmesis Theatre have announced what will be not only their first one woman show but also their most innovative collaborative work to date - the dark and twisted Wolf Red. Wolf Red premieres at th...
The only UK performances of Willy Russell???s Shirley Valentine this year will be taking place in September at St Helens Theatre Royal. Reprising her role is one of the all-time great Shirleys is Liverpool comedian Pauline Daniels, in her 21st anniv...
Life In Theatre Productions ??? the company set up earlier this year by city actors Stephen Fletcher and Andrew Schofield ??? will be staging its second show next week. This time, the company is turning its hand to musical theatre with Jason Rober...
After a trip to the planetarium, the universe starts to wobble for a group of young people in Liverpool. Ruby and her gang start to experiment with teleportation??? Jason is feeling so small that he???s starting to become invisible???and Abdul has...
More than 1,200 dancers will fill up Liverpool ONE this weekend, as one of the highlights of a dance event inspired by London 2012. A show-stopping season of dance comes to a head next month when the Big Dance North West Link Up hits Liverpool ONE...
Today couldn't go by without mention of Royal Court Liverpool and their announcement that David Gest will be appearing in the entire nine week run of their Christmas show. What a curveball! Gest has been living in Liverpool for the last couple of ...
A new piece of musical theatre exploring the romantic ideals of love in the modern era premieres at the Lantern Theatre tomorrow (Wednesday July 11). The curiously titled Love and Fish Fillet is a one woman show performed by Meike Holzmann (of Liv...
It???s the final countdown for community theatre group Altru, whose members will be performing at none other than the home of the Royal Shakespeare Company this week. The group, comprising of young people from Knowsley, will be taking their producti...
Liverpool Pride launched in style last night with a booze cruise across the Mersey ??? a rather snazzy first for the annual LGBT event. And here???s another -- Queertet 2012, four short, original LGBT themed plays by local writers produced especia...
