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Royal wedding, shmedding. Those merry pranksters Impropriety are going all out for their annual Improvathon this weekend, that will see them performing for 2011 minutes - that's more than 33 hours - non-stop. Dearly Beloved is their third undertak...
Endz is a new production from the Everyman and Playhouse that has been touring community spaces across the city, including the Liverpool Lighthouse in Anfield, where yesterday it had an afternoon and evening performance. A piece of verbatim theatr...
Come On Girls! is a brand new live entertainment concept hitting Liverpool this week, combining "the magic of television but with the intimacy and uniqueness of a night at the theatre". Inspired by a similar format that began in Canada, it is the ...
Guest writer Tom Croft enjoys Dylan Moran's charming, yet well-polished trawl through some familiar subjects of stand up, as part of the Liverpool Comedy Festival. The night of the royal wedding, slightly tipsy, I was lucky enough to catch Dylan M...
Straight up, what I know about performance art can fit on the back of a stamp. That Yoko Ono's nice. That's about it. Obviously, this mightn't produce the most enlightened review there ever was. Or, I could trust my judgement and say I'd just been...
Rock 'N' Dole is Sam Avery's second hour-long show, and it was nice to see him make the most of the opportunity to tell a decent tale. He had a cracking subject matter, taking the audience back to his adolescence and his time in a fledgling metal ...
Steve Gribbin is nothing if not good value - the expat Liverpudlian musical comic regularly travels up from his London home to do the rounds and see the family, and makes plenty of opportunities for himself while he???s here. This weekend, as well a...
The Funny Women Awards makes its annual stop off in Liverpool tomorrow night, as one of its regional heats ahead of the final in September. As well as the evening event, it is hosting an afternoon 'women in comedy' debate. The event, held at the B...
Andi Osho is great. A bold female presence on the stand up circuit and the panel show bear pit, the chance to see what she could do live was a real treat and, to use the old reviewers' cliche, she did not disappoint. (Note to self: Don't use that ...
Simon Munnary's show, Self Employed, is a revealing journey into the mind of one of British comedy's unsung talents. Personally, I hadn't seen Munnary live for donkeys' years, and don't really remember much enjoying his Alan Parker, Urban Warrior ...
Smiles for Japan is a day-long fundraiser taking part at the CUC next weekend to raise money for the earthquake relief effort, and it sounds like it's going to be a great day for a fantastic cause. Taking place on Saturday (May 14) at the CUC, it ...
Tim Fitzhigham is probably chuffed to find himself regularly described as a great British eccentric. Well, someone's going to get round to calling you that if you insist on rowing across the Channel in a bath, which is precisely what the comedian ...
It's not all comedy, comedy, comedy in this city at the moment, you know. Over at the Empire, there's ballet! On ice! The Imperial Ice Stars have just begun a Liverpool run as part of their two-year, 22-country world tour of Swan Lake (On Ice. Nat...
Musical Comedy Award winners Jollyboat have had an exciting few months, and although they've been performing on bills all over the place, tonight's gig was the biggest headliner in Liverpool for some time as it was a taster of the show they plan t...
It's the first night of the Liverpool Comedy Festival! So to kick things off, Made Up headed over to the Unity to catch up with veteran performer Arthur Smith for a night of... well, comedy was just one part of his amiable, silly, but thoroughly e...
Taking away the pumpkins, carriages, fairy godmothers and all that is sweet and lovely about Cinderella as we know it, choreographer and director Matthew Bourne throws the well-known fairytale into the harsh reality of the Blitz. There???s not a tut...
There's another Light Night coming up, the after-hours culture event with exciting and unusual happenings for all the family across the city. More than 50 special events will be taking place across Liverpool's museums and art spaces into the night...
Phoenix Dance Theatre returns to the Liverpool Playhouse next week with Reflected, a programme of four contrasting and musically diverse dance works. The company has a strong reputation for presenting engaging, moving and entertaining mixed progra...
Everybody's been talking about the results of a recent poll among comedians that put Liverpool down as the toughest place to gig. Some 18% of the professionals questioned by Dave TV said this city was the hardest to get a laugh in. In all honesty,...
After a run of sell out performances last year, the Unity Theatre is welcoming back local theatre company CJ Productions with Red Skies from May 11 - 14. Almost 4000 people on Merseyside lost their lives in the air attacks of Hitler???s blitzkrieg, ...
