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Semi-professional musical theatre company What We Did Next are getting better with each production. Megan Key finds their latest show as ambitious and moving as ever.... The Last 5 Years is a challenging production. Not due to any particular set o...
Tonight was the press launch of Farmaggedon, the Halloween spectacular featuring three houses of horror all hidden away on Formby farmland, where no-one can hear you scream. Had it all been real, I'd have been chainsawed to death by zombies on at ...
Loose Woman and Oxo Mum Lynda Bellingham paid a flying visit to Liverpool on Friday to launch the latest production of Calendar Girls. The show returns to the Empire in November with some of the familiar faces in the cast from its last outing a ju...
Musical drama The Last 5 Years is the latest offering from Liverpool theatre group What We Did Next, who will be staging the play at the Kazimier this week to launch their autumn season. Written by award winning composer Jason Robert Brown, the on...
Suspend your disbelief. Batman Live is like nothing you will have seen before. No show can be all things to all people, but this one has a pretty good go. All human life was to be found in the audience of Batman Live, from geeks and goths to toddl...
In his autobiography, the comedian Stewart Lee wrote the following: ???Why don???t people like Ben Elton? Admittedly, I was writing this material in the light of seeing Elton???s Queen musical We Will Rock You. I was obliged to see it professionally, as...
MADEUP is already stockpiling the tissues for this one. Multi award-winning Theatre Ad Infinitum, one of the massive success stories of this year's Edinburgh Fringe, invites you on a journey of life, death, and enduring love with their latest prod...
English National Ballet's Strictly Gershwin will be visiting the Liverpool Empire this autumn after an acclaimed run at London???s Royal Albert Hall. The show premiered in 2008 and continues a successful series of in-the-round ballet presentations. ...
Fuse: New Theatre for Young People are going on a bear hunt. The company will spend a day searching far and wide for a bear in the surroundings of Sefton Park Palm House. They promise lots of fun tip toe-ing through caves, squelching through mud a...
Following an acclaimed debut in 2009, Liverpool theatre company 20 Stories High will tour Laurence Wilson???s award-winning play Blackberry Trout Face to national venues, schools and communities throughout September and November. Directed by the com...
Firearms and Fingertips is a new play by writer James Shaw that has been performed over five nights at the Black-E. A show aimed at teenagers and described as "an anti gun crime theatre/mixed-media production" mightn't sound like the most alluring...
If You Didn???t Like That One... and I Am Somebody! are two new short plays by Grin Productions receiving their premiere this week during a free evening of performance at The Fly in the Loaf pub on Hardman Street. The show starts at 8pm on Thursday ...
As the main event of the Liverpool Shakespeare Festival, this new production of the Bard's ultimate romance could irk the purists, but packs a punch. A wrestle with the ridiculously overcomplicated and gimmicky programme was the first sign this Ro...
Making Art is the name of the Unity Theatre???s artist development programme, and it is kicking off their autumn season with not one but five new pieces that have been made possible by the scheme. It provides a ?100 loan as well as technical, mark...
Tell Tale Theatre have made it to the last 20 in Sky Arts' Starstruck competition. The city-based theatre group could win the chance to perform a play in the West End -- but they need your vote. The group put on an impressive production of Orwell'...
Liverpool audiences will be more accustomed to seeing Crosby actress Rachael Rae making them laugh rather than cry. With performances that have been a highlight of the Royal Court???s Christmas shows as well as appearances on BBC sitcoms, up to no...
The autumn season at the Playhouse is gearing up to begin with the return of one of Capital of Culture year???s smash-hit productions: Tartuffe. Originally commissioned and presented by the Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse in 2008 to huge critical a...
A hard-hitting, award-winning play about the horrors of modern day slavery is coming to the Unity. The subject is so pertinent, there will even be an academic conference running alongside the performances. Feelgood Theatre bring their production S...
Right folks, it's time to get things back on track. And who better to lead the way than the Caped Crusader himself? Just when we could all do with a superhero, Batman Live heads to the Echo Arena next month. There have already been good reports fr...
It's somewhat horribly ironic that the last story on MADEUP was about Liverpool Pride, because what has been happening in the days since then has been the complete and total opposite. Last Saturday afternoon was a welcoming, joyful and inspiration...
