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What's James Franco got to do with anything? Is she doing that thing again where she sticks up a photo of a tenuously linked A-list star to a thing that actually has nothing to do with them, just to use a pretty picture? Not this time, dear reader...
We love a Playhouse season launch, and this week saw the theatre announce three exciting new in-house productions for next year as well as the return of a few familiar faces. They had previously spilled the beans about Roger McGough???s new adaptati...
It???s been a hectic few months for Liverpool actor Graham Hicks, about to culminate with a reprisal of his role in one-man show Next! this weekend. Devised by Hicks and Chris Tomlinson as part of the Unity???s Making Art Plus scheme, the play is desc...
Drinking an Epstein real ale in the Epstein theatre waiting for curtain up on Epstein, the show, about Epstein, the Beatles manager, there was a sense the pudding might have been somewhat overegged. Arguably the production the new venue had been w...
Our friends at Spike Theatre will be giving their trademark puppetry and dark fairy tale stylings the festive treatment this year with a production of Dickens's A Christmas Carol, talking place at the Lantern Theatre from December 1 to 10. The wor...
If you???re watching a What We Did Next production and a call goes out for a doctor in the house, you should be fine. Arguably the most exciting exciting non-professional theatre company working in the city at the moment, WWDN is largely comprised...
It may not have the high profile or the budget of some of the shows that have been wowing the Empire crowds recently, but the current tour of 42nd Street really holds its own to charm and inspire in equal measure. Packed with Broadway classics and...
Held is a finely conceived, beautifully executed new play; a perfect example of the kind of work that audiences should be seeing at the top of the Playhouse, and a memorable piece of art in its own right. The first full length play by Joe Ward Mun...
He???s the biggest-selling solo artist in classical music and beloved around the world, so being able to see him on your doorstep ??? on a night where the traffic is stopped so they can film Fast and Furious 6 in the tunnels, no less ??? feels like quit...
Liverpool Arabic Arts Festival???s Funny Arabs brings New York based Arab comedienne Maysoon Zayid to Liverpool for the first time this month. She'll be playing the Epstein Theatre on November 25. Funny Arabs is billed as "a laugh about living in th...
It's been called 'the drag show at the end of the world', brought to life by a performer who refers himself as a 'drag fabulist'. If that doesn't sound like two of the most wonderfully evocative descriptions of anything, ever, then this won't be t...
Tomorrow night (Thursday, November 6) sees the first public performance of a play designed to show young people the stark reality of becoming involved with gangs and guns. Terriers was commissioned by Merseyside Police in 2008. Written by local pl...
Lights Up Entertainment will be holding open auditions for their Valentine???s Day production of I Love You Because, a musical set in modern day New York City inspired by Jane Austen???s classic novel Pride and Prejudice. The story centers around a yo...
A celebrated piece of physical theatre comes to the Unity this month in tribute to one of its most inspiring collaborators, the late Nigel Charnock. Based on Shakespeare???s sonnets, L.O.V.E. is regarded as one of Volcano physical theatre company's ...
The night before Halloween is known as Mischief Night, which could have made it the best possible time for Scottie Road - the Musical to be unleashed on the public. A sordid tale of the dire consequences of assualting Primark staff with their own ...
This cute little fella is the Gingerbread Man, and he's special because thanks to the Actors Studio's Turn Up the Heat campaign, he will be the star of the venue's first ever Christmas production. The tiny theatre's fundraising drive was a complet...
A new dramatisation of Thomas Hardy's novel A Pair of Blue Eyes is coming to the Lantern Theatre on Saturday, November 10. As the jpegs sent over were too small, I took the brave and entirely selfless editorial decision to illustrate this story wi...
The brilliant annual LGBT arts festival Homotopia launched last night, and one of the most intriguing works in its extensive programme is Council House Movie Star, described as "an immersive live arts installation exploring themes of ageing and th...
It's perfect for Les Dennis, and perfect for the Royal Court: Jigsy, the one-man play about a faded Liverpool comic. The show, penned by Tony Staveacre, is 'loosely' based on the Scouse stand up Jackie Hamilton, and comes to the city after a succe...
It???s been a year since the Lantern Theatre was taken over by new owners, and the tiny venue is now ready to realise some big plans. MADEUP talks to its artistic director. When one door closes another opens, and that was certainly the case last Oct...
