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After a trip to the planetarium, the universe starts to wobble for a group of young people in Liverpool. Ruby and her gang start to experiment with teleportation??? Jason is feeling so small that he???s starting to become invisible???and Abdul has...
More than 1,200 dancers will fill up Liverpool ONE this weekend, as one of the highlights of a dance event inspired by London 2012. A show-stopping season of dance comes to a head next month when the Big Dance North West Link Up hits Liverpool ONE...
Today couldn't go by without mention of Royal Court Liverpool and their announcement that David Gest will be appearing in the entire nine week run of their Christmas show. What a curveball! Gest has been living in Liverpool for the last couple of ...
A new piece of musical theatre exploring the romantic ideals of love in the modern era premieres at the Lantern Theatre tomorrow (Wednesday July 11). The curiously titled Love and Fish Fillet is a one woman show performed by Meike Holzmann (of Liv...
It???s the final countdown for community theatre group Altru, whose members will be performing at none other than the home of the Royal Shakespeare Company this week. The group, comprising of young people from Knowsley, will be taking their producti...
Liverpool Pride launched in style last night with a booze cruise across the Mersey ??? a rather snazzy first for the annual LGBT event. And here???s another -- Queertet 2012, four short, original LGBT themed plays by local writers produced especia...
Be prepared to revisit the history of Liverpool, as a brand new theatrical experience is taking to the streets of our city this summer ??? the A Tale of Two Cities tour. Lovehistory is in the business of transporting Liverpool???s diverse, radical and...
Can you believe it? It's a year to the day since the Everyman Finale marked the end of one era and the start of a new journey for the Hope Stree theatre. So today, all those who love it are being encouraged to get involved with the Everyone for th...
God???s Official is the very embodiment of a comedy caper. With many of the hallmarks of its writer Robert Farquhar???s style, it is a fast-paced romp that appears ludicrous on the surface, but has something darker lurking underneath. In a moment of m...
The Match Box has received extremely positive reviews across the board, and that is with good reason ??? if you like theatre, and you like storytelling, its power is exemplary. A new work by Irish playwright Frank McGuinness, it is currently premier...
They kissed a gull and they liked it! They really really really wanna give a big ARRR! Yes, of all the musical pirate comedy acts out there, Jollyboat has to be our very favourite. And they???re back, back, back with a run of Liverpool shows next ...
How do they do it? One wrong step, and you???ve broken an ankle falling off one of those slinky heels, or sliced off your dance partner???s knackers. It???s the tango, that mind-bogglingly precise form of leg-swishing, lady-flingin??? moves that, done rig...
For the actors behind this week???s upcoming production of God???s Official, it was never a question of if it was going to happen, but when. The show, which can be seen at the Unity Theatre this week, is a revival of an early work by Liverpool playwri...
And so, Liverpool conquered Norman. The Alan Aykbourn trilogy that has consumed the Playhouse for the last month gave its final performance last night, with Table Manners. Not just the end of quite an epic run of comedy but the end of the season t...
Bash: Latter Day Plays is a trilogy of one act pieces by Neil LaBute, in which seemingly nice, virtuous people admit to some very dark deeds indeed. This production is the work of new company said&done, a mix of professionals and recent graduates ...
Every year, round about now, places want to start flogging their panto tickets. It???s something MADEUP always tries to ignore until it all becomes too much (can't we have summer first?) but this week a genuinely intriguing announcement was made. Wh...
Great to see that this event has been rescheduled -- harpist and playwright Rebecca Joy Sharp will be presenting a unique and original new work that was originally devised to accompany Liverpool's marking of the Titanic centenary and the huge Sea ...
Theatre company said&done presents its debut production this week, of Bash: Latter Day Plays, by American playwright Neil LaBute. Greek myths meet contemporary American sensibility in Labute???s trilogy of one-act plays, exploring the extremes to wh...
The run of The Norman Conquests continues apace at the Playhouse, where one of Alan Aykbourn???s series is played out each day, and where all three can be seen back-to-back on ???trilogy days???. Set over a weekend of an impromptu family reunion after o...
This firey lady is samba dancer Simone Reeve, who led the charge of a fashion show with a difference last night at the launch of the Brazilica festival at Alma de Cuba. An array of fabulous costumes that will be seen as part of the nighttime festi...
