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20 Stories High Young Actors have been on a mission to find out the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth??? about each other. And you can see the results for yourself in Tales From The MP3, a new work being performed at the Bluecoat unti...
It's been a busy year for Liverpool based PurpleCoat Productions, following on from their collaboration with the Royal Shakespeare Company at the CUC last year. Their production of Titus Andronicus prompted none other than Stephen Fry to donate to...
Musical comedy brothers Jollyboat (above, in Cheerios bath) are celebrating the launch of their new YouTube channel with a promise to upload a new song every week. Tommy and Ed Croft, best known for their pirate-themed pop parodies, set up the Jol...
Proving there is life after YEP, a group of graduates of the Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse Young Writers programme have teamed up to form a new collective, the Annexe Writers. They will present Remember, Remember, a night of six short plays thi...
What's James Franco got to do with anything? Is she doing that thing again where she sticks up a photo of a tenuously linked A-list star to a thing that actually has nothing to do with them, just to use a pretty picture? Not this time, dear reader...
We love a Playhouse season launch, and this week saw the theatre announce three exciting new in-house productions for next year as well as the return of a few familiar faces. They had previously spilled the beans about Roger McGough???s new adaptati...
Our friends at Spike Theatre will be giving their trademark puppetry and dark fairy tale stylings the festive treatment this year with a production of Dickens's A Christmas Carol, talking place at the Lantern Theatre from December 1 to 10. The wor...
If you???re watching a What We Did Next production and a call goes out for a doctor in the house, you should be fine. Arguably the most exciting exciting non-professional theatre company working in the city at the moment, WWDN is largely comprised...
Liverpool Arabic Arts Festival???s Funny Arabs brings New York based Arab comedienne Maysoon Zayid to Liverpool for the first time this month. She'll be playing the Epstein Theatre on November 25. Funny Arabs is billed as "a laugh about living in th...
Tomorrow night (Thursday, November 6) sees the first public performance of a play designed to show young people the stark reality of becoming involved with gangs and guns. Terriers was commissioned by Merseyside Police in 2008. Written by local pl...
Lights Up Entertainment will be holding open auditions for their Valentine???s Day production of I Love You Because, a musical set in modern day New York City inspired by Jane Austen???s classic novel Pride and Prejudice. The story centers around a yo...
A celebrated piece of physical theatre comes to the Unity this month in tribute to one of its most inspiring collaborators, the late Nigel Charnock. Based on Shakespeare???s sonnets, L.O.V.E. is regarded as one of Volcano physical theatre company's ...
This cute little fella is the Gingerbread Man, and he's special because thanks to the Actors Studio's Turn Up the Heat campaign, he will be the star of the venue's first ever Christmas production. The tiny theatre's fundraising drive was a complet...
A new dramatisation of Thomas Hardy's novel A Pair of Blue Eyes is coming to the Lantern Theatre on Saturday, November 10. As the jpegs sent over were too small, I took the brave and entirely selfless editorial decision to illustrate this story wi...
The brilliant annual LGBT arts festival Homotopia launched last night, and one of the most intriguing works in its extensive programme is Council House Movie Star, described as "an immersive live arts installation exploring themes of ageing and th...
For anyone aspiring to be a writer, wanting to see a new play in development or wanting to work with the UK???s leading practitioners, Everyword 2012 new writing festival, which starts today, is a week of new stories, inspiring workshops and creativ...
"A darkly comic and deeply moving 20th century icon for the new millennium" is the description of a new play based on the scripts of Galton and Simpson???s Steptoe and Son, coming to the Playhouse from November 6 to 10. Last seen on the city stage w...
Theatre crosses paths with the Biennial again this weekend with Deadline, a city-wide live action game for teams of up to ten people. Devised by Hope Street Ltd, the day long, interactive game takes place across the centre of Liverpool. From 11am ...
What is the future for Liverpool's youth? How do you think we can fix things? An evening of performance, debate and activism featuring some of the city's most vital names in young people's theatre will be taking place at The Brink this Friday (Oct...
ThickSkin theatre comes to the Unity later this month with new play The Static. The show, which impressed the critics during its world premiere run at the 2012 Edinburgh Fringe, is described as "a kinetic coming-of age story about desire, guilt an...
