A Liverpool-based sketch group are preparing for their first headline show. Comedy performers the Legion of Doom have been a regular act on the alternative stand up scene and have developed their full-length play as a result of the characters and ...
Award winning Liverpool theatre company Spike will be holding a special one-off variety fundraiser at The Kazimier to raise what should be the last of the money needed to take their show The Games to the Edinburgh Festival this summer. Variety Pac...
There was never much doubt this production would see the Everyman out in style, and it soon became clear watching this Macbeth that it would be an across-the-board critical success that would barely need reviewing, yet here we are. I???ve read fair ...
Tim Minchin took his place at his grand piano, acknowledged the applause for a moment, then began to play and sing. ???Nothing kills comedy/ like an arena,??? he softly teased. We could all relax. He knew what he was up against, and was telling us he ...
Royal wedding, shmedding. Those merry pranksters Impropriety are going all out for their annual Improvathon this weekend, that will see them performing for 2011 minutes - that's more than 33 hours - non-stop. Dearly Beloved is their third undertak...
Endz is a new production from the Everyman and Playhouse that has been touring community spaces across the city, including the Liverpool Lighthouse in Anfield, where yesterday it had an afternoon and evening performance. A piece of verbatim theatr...
Come On Girls! is a brand new live entertainment concept hitting Liverpool this week, combining "the magic of television but with the intimacy and uniqueness of a night at the theatre". Inspired by a similar format that began in Canada, it is the ...
Guest writer Tom Croft enjoys Dylan Moran's charming, yet well-polished trawl through some familiar subjects of stand up, as part of the Liverpool Comedy Festival. The night of the royal wedding, slightly tipsy, I was lucky enough to catch Dylan M...
Straight up, what I know about performance art can fit on the back of a stamp. That Yoko Ono's nice. That's about it. Obviously, this mightn't produce the most enlightened review there ever was. Or, I could trust my judgement and say I'd just been...
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 ...
Steve Gribbin is nothing if not good value - the expat Liverpudlian musical comic regularly travels up from his London home to do the rounds and see the family, and makes plenty of opportunities for himself while he???s here. This weekend, as well a...
The Funny Women Awards makes its annual stop off in Liverpool tomorrow night, as one of its regional heats ahead of the final in September. As well as the evening event, it is hosting an afternoon 'women in comedy' debate. The event, held at the B...
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 ...
Smiles for Japan is a day-long fundraiser taking part at the CUC next weekend to raise money for the earthquake relief effort, and it sounds like it's going to be a great day for a fantastic cause. Taking place on Saturday (May 14) at the CUC, it ...
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 ...
It's not all comedy, comedy, comedy in this city at the moment, you know. Over at the Empire, there's ballet! On ice! The Imperial Ice Stars have just begun a Liverpool run as part of their two-year, 22-country world tour of Swan Lake (On Ice. Nat...
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...
