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Club Geek Chic, most excellently described as "the night out for Liverpool???s discerning socialites", returns this weekend after a break of nearly two years, with what organisers are calling a "1980s themed extravaganza!" Gemma Aldcroft and Karen...
Despite the best efforts of all involved, watching Grease on stage doesn???t really equate to a trip to the theatre as much as being forced to attend some kind of money-spinning Christmas party tribute night with all the people from work you can't s...
One of the West End???s biggest hits of recent years, Tony Award-winning musical comedy Avenue Q is coming to Liverpool after nearly five years of mischief, bad behaviour and political incorrectness in the West End. In collaboration with Cameron Mac...
Tomorrow night (Monday) sees a special screening of the film Backbeat, as part of the successful Clapperboard Presents??? fundraisers. After the film ??? the 1994 dramatisation of the life of ???fifth Beatle??? Stuart Sutcliffe ??? one of its star...
That Ray Quinn's a nice sort, so did his bit for the Empire this week, where he is currently performing, by helping to launch a new theatre membership scheme. Quinn, currently starring as Danny in Grease, unveiled the brand new ATG Theatre Card ??...
The long-awaited new production of Ealing comedy The Ladykillers is finally open for business, with a celebratory press night taking place last night that showed how the production had brought out the best in all involved. It's not as if the crew ...
In the immortal words of Rolf Harris, can you guess what it is yet? Eh? EH?! Presumably the juxtaposition of a clock and some oranges in the picture above will have made it clear enough that a new production of A Clockwork Orange is coming our way...
Choreographer Joseph Mercier always makes an impression when he shows up at Homotopia. Last year???s show, Giselle (or I???m Too Horny to be a Prince) saw the Canadian take to the Unity stage without a stitch on in a work described as "an intimate aut...
The Royal Court's Christmas shows. Made Up bleddy loves 'em. And this year, the venue has already announced an extension to its run. Good to hear it! The venue says it's "delighted" to announce a two week extension to Little Scouse On The Prairie ...
???Well, it???s very professional, isn???t it,??? an elderly male voice behind us said to his companion, in a loud, flat voice at a quiet moment. My sister and I suppressed more than a giggle. It was exactly the sort of thing our granddad would say if he'...
Mitch Benn is one of the UK???s foremost musical comedians. Liverpool born and bred, he returns to the city for a rare theatre show with his band The Distractions on November 15. ???Kind of a rock concert but funny??? is the simplest way for Benn to exp...
This winter Action Transport Theatre will present 12 Miles From Nowhere, a new play inspired by the lives, ideas, stories and dreams of people who live in rural communities across the North West. The production makes the rolling countryside the ba...
As much as one can ever recommend something they've never seen, it hopefully won't be too far off the mark to say this really should be a good 'un. Dance company Earthfall returns to Homotopia this year with their award winning 2005 production of ...
The Playhouse Studio has held a huge place in the affections of those involved in the theatre for a very long time. It???s a place with a long history that has launched careers on and off stage; but for the past 15 years it has been closed to the pu...
All-male dance company The Featherstonehaughs invite you to come and celebrate with them as they take to the stage for the very last time with the acclaimed 2010 work Edits at CUC Liverpool on November . The Featherstonehaughs are one of the most ...
Here's a gallery of pretty atmospheric looking pictures from The Swallowing Dark, the new production from playwright Lizzie Nunnery. It's the first show on the stage of the newly reopened Studio space at the Playhouse,and so, like Anchorman Ron Bu...
It???s fun to see so many productions putting together trailers for their shows, so Trailer Park is going to be a new space on MADEUP.LV that will showcase collections of new theatrical promos. Kicking things off are The Suitcase Ensemble, who have ...
The Everyman may be coming down brick by brick but its spirit lives on, as its new writing festival Everyword goes ahead this year at sister theatre the Playhouse. For anyone aspiring to be a writer, wanting to see a new play in development or wan...
The Lantern Theatre will be whisking us off to warmer climes and more innocent times this weekend, as it presents the touring production of Sunny Rhyl by Dividers Productions. A new play by Paul Kelly and directed by Steve Davies, Sunny Rhyl is se...
Hold onto your bonnets, LipService are celebrating 21 years of sublime silliness with their cult Bronte spoof Withering Looks. When Maggie Fox and Sue Ryding realised that 2006 was also the 150th anniversary of the death of Charlotte Bronte, they ...
