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Manchester-based choreographer Darren Pritchard is bringing his unique work 1, a piece in which he dances one song for one audience member at a time, to Liverpool this autumn as part of the Homotopia festival line up. The founder of dance company ...
The Lantern Theatre is to turn its hand to comedy with a night of stand up next month. On Sunday, October 7, our pal Silky will be returning to Liverpool to headline A Rush of Laughter. Joined by Scott Bennett, whose accolades include being named ...
Last night was the final performance of The Yarn, a show that first took to the Unity stage in 2011, before heading to this year's Edinburgh fringe. MATE Drama Workshop, a community group based in Halewood, decided to say goodbye to their intricat...
Some very nice news today, in that MADEUP has been commended as one of the best arts and culture blogs IN THE WHOLE OF THE NORTH. Huzzah! While it hasn't made the shortlist for the Blog North Awards so won't actually win anything, the judging pane...
Kicking off the Playhouse's autumn season -- and frankly we've been a bit lost without the place -- is this new production of Ben Jonson's The Alchemist. Written in 1610, the play is as timeless in its message as it lends itself to personalisation...
As the last post illustrated, on-the-spot action shots aren't really the forte of this blog. However! That didn't stop me accidentally wandering right onto the set of the new Jack Ryan film last night for a nose. Water Street, Castle Street and th...
A film crew was out and about in and around Falkner Square last night, hence why all of the streetlights around the park were out for a few hours after dark. Here's some pics of what was going on -- you can just about see from my woeful photograph...
???Only the dreamers, who dream while awake, call back the shadows of the past and braid from unspun threads, unspun nets.??? ??? Isaac Bashevis Singer The world premi??re tour of A Day of Pleasure, a new play adapted by The Useful Donkey Theatre Company...
So our own Andrew Lancel has been announced as the man who will play Epstein, and it certainly has the potential to be an exceptionally good piece of casting. Of course! Look at that logo. The resemblance is there for all to see. Lancel, who most ...
Some of our friends at Impropriety have been stealthily making their way over to the wilds of The Wall, I mean Canada, to take part in a fantastical challenge. Whether MADEUP is telling you about this to share the good news or for the flimsy excus...
Royal Court Liverpool has announced it is welcoming back Birkenhead Operatic Society Trust with their brand new production of The Full Monty in May next year -- but first they have to find it's stars. Feel like baring all? Based on the smash hit 1...
It's not every day you go to the movies and you get a Vogue-off thrown in, but so it was at FACT last night, where before the showing of cult dance film Leave it on the Floor we were treated to a little show by House of Suarez, there to promote th...
Everything from comedy to contemporary classical music, to, erm, Sonia is to be found on the stage of the brand new Epstein Theatre in the near future, as the new venue has unveiled the line-up for its first official season of shows. Renamed after...
Here's news of another Liverpool homecoming after success at the Edinburgh Fringe. MATE Drama Workshop's The Yarn comes back to the Unity from the festival for two celebratory performances on September 18 and 19. And if it sounds a little familiar...
"Liverpool comics never die", is the tagline from Edinburgh Festival hit show Jigsy. Enter Les Dennis, stage right... Jigsy, written by Tony Staveacre and directed by Hannah Chissick,is a one-man show inspired by Scouse comic Jackie Hamilton. It's...
This autumn Liverpool Comedy Festival is finally back, it being some 15 months or so since the last event. And organisers are saying it has the biggest ever line up to boot. Some 95 shows will take place across seven days between September 27 and ...
Inspired is Liverpool comic Laurence Clark???s second homecoming show of the year. Playing to a packed out Unity theatre last night, he presented his latest show Inspired, funded by London 2012. This didn???t affect the show???s content, in which Clark,...
After the success of their first ever production The Picture of Dorian Gray earlier in the year, new theatre company Script in Hand Productions are bringing their latest show Alice to the Epstein Theatre on Saturday (September 1) as part of the ve...
Wandering out of the Bluecoat into the rain, I wasn???t sure if I had enjoyed The Ugly Spirit. I certainly wasn???t sure if I???d understood it. I???d been left not quite sure of anything. Just about the one thing I did know was I had come away from one o...
Liverpool actress Pauline Daniels returns to the Playhouse for the next world premiere at in the Studio this November. She will be appearing with Alan Stocks and Ged McKenna in Held, the debut play by Joe Ward Munrow. Daniels, who will play the mo...
