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To celebrate the Halloween season and following the success of What Stalks the Night? at Croxteth Hall last year, this October www.ullaloom.co.uk">Ullaloom presents another frightful show taking place in the hall's old dining room. Murder at The M...
Mersey theatre company Grin Productions is pleased to announce the launch of a new writing group, Writers (Un)Blocked. Held every two weeks, Writers (Un)Blocked is a local workshop that encourages, informs and supports writers in the field of play...
After more than a decade on the comedy circuit, gathering a loyal and ever increasing following along the way, Reginald D Hunter finally graced the famous Liverpool Philharmonic Hall stage last week with his show, ???Sometimes Even The Devil Tells T...
MADEUP loves a bit of Empire campery to liven up a dreary afternoon, and today they once again delivered the goods, cheerfully announcing the pending arrival of international singing sensation Susan Boyle to the theatre. Quite like some kind of bi...
What if one mighty rocket could contain all the glamour, glory and disgrace of the Academy Awards, Olympic figure skating, Club Med and Scientology? That, for an as-yet-unknown reason is the question posed by It's Uniformation Day, fresh from the ...
Liverpool has been chosen as the only British city outside London to feature in the European-wide Exchange Radical Moments live art festival, taking place on November 11 -- 11.11.11 -- across the continent. And the city's contribution will be like...
As the artists working from Metal at Edge Hill train station have been archiving things they uncover about the place, they came upon letters and other information relating to the Edge Hill Brass Band, the station???s own musical group who were super...
Ricky Gervais may have shed the pounds, whitened his teeth and shamelessly conquered LA, but his co-writer Stephen Merchant???s Hello Ladies tour ??? the tour that he jokes will take him up and down the country in search of a wife ??? simply couldn???t ge...
The latest in-house production in the Playhouse???s busy season is a theatre studies staple with original twists galore. Liverpool playwright Stephen Sharkey has taken Bertolt Brecht???s allegorical and darkly comic tale of Hitler???s rise to power and ...
Ordinarily the beginning of October would be a perfectly acceptable time for the Empire to start decking the halls, wheeling out Aled 'Walking in the Air' Jones and getting excited about the launch of its Christmas show, but nobody was really expe...
As part of its 100th birthday celebrations, the Liverpool Playhouse will re-launch the Studio with the world premi??re of a new play from Lizzie Nunnery, The Swallowing Dark, in a co-production with London???s Theatre503. Directed by Theatre503???s co-...
Liverpool physical theatre duo Tmesis have been up to all sorts. They're premiering a new work in progress this week, coming straight after a trip to Africa, which sounds rather exciting. The company, comprising performers Elinor Randal and Yorgos...
Members of Happystorm Theatre Company thought they were in for the long arm of the law this week after realising they'd parked a van full of violent-looking props in the middle of the Labour Party Conference site. Joint artistic director Matthew G...
This year???s Liverpool Irish Festival is shaping up with a programme of music, film, drama, heritage, literature and lectures. Highlights include a weekend of free activities down on the Albert Dock, the second Irish Sea Sessions at the Philharmoni...
As the Playhouse's Tartuffe enjoyed an enthusiastic revival and began a tour last week, so this week sees Laurence Wilson's 2009 work Blackberry Trout Face do the same. Commissioned by community theatre company 20 Stories High in association with ...
The final names have been added to the cast of You???ll Never Walk Alone ??? The Legend Of Liverpool FC, a new play coming to the Royal Court next month. The show, which aims to tell the entire 120 year history of the club in 90 minutes, is writte...
The Last Eden is a new play by a new theatre company ??? and it sets its heights high. It tells the story of a futuristic world, where in the desperation of a scorched earth the haves and have nots are at deadly extremes. Our protagonist is Lala (Ni...
They might not play a brass instrument between them. They might not be able to get over the day their musical career was thwarted. But something about the tradition of British brass bands has inspired them??? Look at us Now is an intriguing new perf...
Last week Unity Theatre hosted a number of new works that had been supported by their Making Art scheme, in which they provide a small bursary and technical back up to new talent. I caught a couple, although with a minimal amount of information ab...
Tartuffe is another one of those Playhouse successes that has been reviewed to death most everywhere. But as the revived run finishes in Liverpool this weekend before heading out on a national tour, it certainly warrants a quick honorary mention h...
