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Rock 'N' Dole is Sam Avery's second hour-long show, and it was nice to see him make the most of the opportunity to tell a decent tale. He had a cracking subject matter, taking the audience back to his adolescence and his time in a fledgling metal ...
Andi Osho is great. A bold female presence on the stand up circuit and the panel show bear pit, the chance to see what she could do live was a real treat and, to use the old reviewers' cliche, she did not disappoint. (Note to self: Don't use that ...
Simon Munnary's show, Self Employed, is a revealing journey into the mind of one of British comedy's unsung talents. Personally, I hadn't seen Munnary live for donkeys' years, and don't really remember much enjoying his Alan Parker, Urban Warrior ...
Tim Fitzhigham is probably chuffed to find himself regularly described as a great British eccentric. Well, someone's going to get round to calling you that if you insist on rowing across the Channel in a bath, which is precisely what the comedian ...
Musical Comedy Award winners Jollyboat have had an exciting few months, and although they've been performing on bills all over the place, tonight's gig was the biggest headliner in Liverpool for some time as it was a taster of the show they plan t...
It's the first night of the Liverpool Comedy Festival! So to kick things off, Made Up headed over to the Unity to catch up with veteran performer Arthur Smith for a night of... well, comedy was just one part of his amiable, silly, but thoroughly e...
Taking away the pumpkins, carriages, fairy godmothers and all that is sweet and lovely about Cinderella as we know it, choreographer and director Matthew Bourne throws the well-known fairytale into the harsh reality of the Blitz. There???s not a tut...
Shuffling along the Albert Dock to the arena with my old friend Dan, surrounded by a sea of excited little boys in colourful masks and their generally disinterested parents, I wondered why on earth it was I was still doing this. For fun. Not even ...
Reading the set up of Living With Macbeth was immediately reminiscent of the ending of the film Withnail & I. Decribed as a ???psychological story about reminiscence and past glories, about actors, what they do???.and what they should not do???, and esp...
Things were getting a bit heavy round here; unfunny comedians, legendary comedians suffering the hecklers from hell and vowing never to come back to Liverpool; it was all getting a bit depressing on the live front. So, I moseyed along to the Empir...
Acts performing in the concert room of St George???s Hall are practically contractually obliged to be impressed with the surroundings. They always mention it. With that in mind, even hearing this gig had been announced was enough for a double take. ...
Andrew Lawrence's acerbic writing and impishly flowery delivery ultimately couldn't save tonight's show from descending into a ramshackle evening of floundering stand up. When Lawrence is good, he is very good. His writing is tight and he plays on...
The much-anticipated Arrested Development movie will be made this year and he ???apparently??? has a part; his alter-ego Brian Butterfield is lining up his own chatshow. An audience of Peter Serafinowicz geeks ??? chic geeks, natch ??? got plenty of goss ...
Anybody with fond memories of Ghost Stories, last year's Playhouse co-production that turned into a global success story (it just opened in Toronto, having taken over the West End), will have been waiting for Roald Dahl???s Twisted Tales with some e...
Sometimes, something can come along that is so absurdly niche that you could think it was written just for you. What this reviewer considers the strengths of The Summer House mightn't particularly have the masses flocking, that can???t really be den...
Just before arriving at the Unity to see last night???s show, I???d been sat in the Baltic Fleet discussing, among other things, the fabled Bold Street ???timeslip???, the urban legend that people have actually experienced unwitting time travel in that pa...
The story of little orphan Annie is a popular one, and this production has been doing the rounds for years. Starting to show? Maybe. A good-hearted show that didn???t quite hit the heights it looked like it could be capable of on a good night, a noi...
Footloose the film was, like others of its generation, a big load of schmaltzy, silly American nonsense, in this case centred around a teenage boy called Ren who moves from fancy Chicago to a small town where they have banned dancing. Therein lies...
Tell Tale Theatre, for it is they, first properly came to my attention at the CUC???s Threshold Festival last month. Making the way up to the performance floor to catch a sneaky peak of Hamlet, myself and other visitors milling around could notice a...
The Greek tragedy of Oedipus is as well-known and as high concept as they come: Man marries mother and kills father. This is a new production written and directed by Steven Berkoff. It is nearly two hours long with no interval. All the action take...
