Here's a gallery of pretty atmospheric looking pictures from The Swallowing Dark, the new production from playwright Lizzie Nunnery. It's the first show on the stage of the newly reopened Studio space at the Playhouse,and so, like Anchorman Ron Bu...
It???s fun to see so many productions putting together trailers for their shows, so Trailer Park is going to be a new space on MADEUP.LV that will showcase collections of new theatrical promos. Kicking things off are The Suitcase Ensemble, who have ...
The Everyman may be coming down brick by brick but its spirit lives on, as its new writing festival Everyword goes ahead this year at sister theatre the Playhouse. For anyone aspiring to be a writer, wanting to see a new play in development or wan...
The Lantern Theatre will be whisking us off to warmer climes and more innocent times this weekend, as it presents the touring production of Sunny Rhyl by Dividers Productions. A new play by Paul Kelly and directed by Steve Davies, Sunny Rhyl is se...
Hold onto your bonnets, LipService are celebrating 21 years of sublime silliness with their cult Bronte spoof Withering Looks. When Maggie Fox and Sue Ryding realised that 2006 was also the 150th anniversary of the death of Charlotte Bronte, they ...
To celebrate the Halloween season and following the success of What Stalks the Night? at Croxteth Hall last year, this October www.ullaloom.co.uk">Ullaloom presents another frightful show taking place in the hall's old dining room. Murder at The M...
Mersey theatre company Grin Productions is pleased to announce the launch of a new writing group, Writers (Un)Blocked. Held every two weeks, Writers (Un)Blocked is a local workshop that encourages, informs and supports writers in the field of play...
After more than a decade on the comedy circuit, gathering a loyal and ever increasing following along the way, Reginald D Hunter finally graced the famous Liverpool Philharmonic Hall stage last week with his show, ???Sometimes Even The Devil Tells T...
MADEUP loves a bit of Empire campery to liven up a dreary afternoon, and today they once again delivered the goods, cheerfully announcing the pending arrival of international singing sensation Susan Boyle to the theatre. Quite like some kind of bi...
What if one mighty rocket could contain all the glamour, glory and disgrace of the Academy Awards, Olympic figure skating, Club Med and Scientology? That, for an as-yet-unknown reason is the question posed by It's Uniformation Day, fresh from the ...
Liverpool has been chosen as the only British city outside London to feature in the European-wide Exchange Radical Moments live art festival, taking place on November 11 -- 11.11.11 -- across the continent. And the city's contribution will be like...
As the artists working from Metal at Edge Hill train station have been archiving things they uncover about the place, they came upon letters and other information relating to the Edge Hill Brass Band, the station???s own musical group who were super...
Ricky Gervais may have shed the pounds, whitened his teeth and shamelessly conquered LA, but his co-writer Stephen Merchant???s Hello Ladies tour ??? the tour that he jokes will take him up and down the country in search of a wife ??? simply couldn???t ge...
The latest in-house production in the Playhouse???s busy season is a theatre studies staple with original twists galore. Liverpool playwright Stephen Sharkey has taken Bertolt Brecht???s allegorical and darkly comic tale of Hitler???s rise to power and ...
Ordinarily the beginning of October would be a perfectly acceptable time for the Empire to start decking the halls, wheeling out Aled 'Walking in the Air' Jones and getting excited about the launch of its Christmas show, but nobody was really expe...
As part of its 100th birthday celebrations, the Liverpool Playhouse will re-launch the Studio with the world premi??re of a new play from Lizzie Nunnery, The Swallowing Dark, in a co-production with London???s Theatre503. Directed by Theatre503???s co-...
Liverpool physical theatre duo Tmesis have been up to all sorts. They're premiering a new work in progress this week, coming straight after a trip to Africa, which sounds rather exciting. The company, comprising performers Elinor Randal and Yorgos...
Members of Happystorm Theatre Company thought they were in for the long arm of the law this week after realising they'd parked a van full of violent-looking props in the middle of the Labour Party Conference site. Joint artistic director Matthew G...
This year???s Liverpool Irish Festival is shaping up with a programme of music, film, drama, heritage, literature and lectures. Highlights include a weekend of free activities down on the Albert Dock, the second Irish Sea Sessions at the Philharmoni...
As the Playhouse's Tartuffe enjoyed an enthusiastic revival and began a tour last week, so this week sees Laurence Wilson's 2009 work Blackberry Trout Face do the same. Commissioned by community theatre company 20 Stories High in association with ...
