Yesterday saw the launch of the second Write Now festival, a showcase of new one-act plays taking place between April 15 ??? 23 at the Actors??? Studio on Seel Street. Eight works have been chosen to be performed as part of the event, and were plugged...
Neil Haigh is one of the writers and performers of The Summer House, a new comedy coming to the Unity next week. Produced by London's Fuel Theatre, it is the story of three men on a lads' holiday in the Scandinavian wilds. Among other work, Neil i...
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...
???I???ve never been to Liverpool, either to perform or play and I???m in a ridiculous, massive venue that there???s no way on earth I???ll fill considering my profile,??? says Dan Clark. He???s matter-of-fact about this. There???s no self-depreciating, fishing f...
Today saw actor David Morrissey in town, alongside Jemma Redgrave, to start up the publicity machine for Macbeth, that will be the final production to be staged at the Everyman before its closure. It seemed a bit of a hectic schedule for all invol...
Congratulations to lovely Liverpool-based duo Jollyboat, who have won the 2011 Musical Comedy Award. Described on their Twitter page as ???brothers, comedians, and most of all, pirates???, they have been performing under the Jollyboat name for a year ...
It's been an exciting week, with so much going on, why, it just couldn't all be contained on this site. I'll have to direct you elsewhere. I had the pleasure of a quick chat with comedy god Peter Serafinowicz a few days ago, to talk about him comi...
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...
From the international corporate malevolence of Disney to something a tad more grass roots now. Next weekend sees the nationwide protest of Theatre Uncut, an evening of performances of new short plays that the writers have given the nod to be used...
What a day it's been. Here's a picture of Mickey Mouse to cheer us all up. Alongside Disney colleagues old and new, he's heading to town for Disney Live! Mickey???s Music Festival, that comes to the BT Convention Centre Liverpool from April 22 - 25....
Alan Stocks is one of the most well-known actors currently working on the Liverpool stage. Raised in Norris Green, he studied at RADA before forging a successful theatre and television career. Since moving back to his home city with his wife and t...
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...
A well known rabbit attempts to stop an alien blowing up the earth; in a Berlin caf??, a professor pleads with her student not to commit an atrocious act; and in an infamous London department store, the weirdest ever episode of Are You Being Served...
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...
More great comedy news for the city today as the Empire announced that Stephen Merchant is about to embark on his first ever stand-up comedy tour which will come to Liverpool Empire this autumn. The Emmy, BAFTA and Golden Globe award winning co-cr...
"A view into the dark and seedy world of 19th century Paris" is promised with a new production at the Unity this month - Memoirs of a Hermaphrodite, described as ???a passionate mix of Orlando, Chatterton and Hedder Gabbler???, is a poignant story of ...
News of two very exciting comedy happenings came our way this week that both sound like events that will really be miss-at-your-own-peril sort of nights. And as it happens, they're on at the same venue in the space of a week - the concert room at ...
???HELLO IS THAT VANESSA?!??? the familiar croaky voice yells as soon as she picks up the phone. Well, she got the first letter right. And, in many years of doing interviews like these, it can???t be said one single other actor or celebrity has ever sho...
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...
Musical "rock goddess" and star of Wicked on Broadway and the West End Kerry Ellis is coming to Liverpool with a very special pal - Queen guitarist Brian May. Tickets went on sale this week for their unique show Anthems: The Tour, a new live touri...
