It???s been a fine year for city musical theatre group What We Did Next, and their ambitious production of Steven Sondheim???s Into the Woods appeared to be be their biggest challenge to date ??? but boy did they rise to it. The setting: The Black-E, a ...
Hooray! It's Trailer Park, the bit of the site where MADEUP showcases video clips and trailers of upcoming live shows. You'd better be feeling Christmassy. If not, get a load of this: We have a taster here today of Irving Berlin???s White Christmas,...
No sooner had Laughterhouse Comedy found a warm and cosy home at the CUC, than they have been forced to give it up ahead of the venue???s closure at the start of next year. But are they letting it get them down? Not a bit, and they???re busy planning ...
Those loveable theatrical lunatics Big Wow return for their regular January slot at the Unity with a brand new show to kick off 2012. The Art of Falling Apart is described as ???an all new show following a number of out-of-sorts people living out-of...
Aaaah, plus ca change, plus c'est meme chose. And tonight found me falling in love with the Everyman's -- sorry, the Playhouse's -- rock 'n' roll panto all over again. This perennial festive favourite has upped sticks to its sister theatre this ye...
Hold on to your lingo bingo hats. In a time of interesting announcements, here's this week's, as it has been announced the theatre formerly known as Neptune is to be taken over by music festival organisers Sound City. Take a drink for every mentio...
The summer riots are in the headlines again as people still try and piece together what happened across the country back in August. In the aftermath, I met Sarah Lovell, who heads the education and community outreach team at the Everyman & Playhou...
Scrooge has been quite a regular visitor to the Empire, although it???s been a while since it wasn???t knocked off Chrimbo scheduling by a large-scale celeb panto. Rocking up in November always seemed a bit early; so the timing this year was perfect. ...
See, this is why we hate young people. Ideas like this. The Empire theatre has announced its new 'Ticket for a Tenner' initiative, allowing Liverpool students to see a host of its top touring musicals, comedy and more for just ?10 a go (in case yo...
The final production of the year from city centre theatre group Grin Productions has just enjoyed two successful nights at the Lantern Theatre. The group exists to encourage new writers, performers and directors, so it was good to go along and cat...
Dame Judi Dench, Cherie Booth QC and Tesco boss Sir Terry Leahy have spoken of their delight upon hearing the Royal Court Liverpool Trust has been successful in raising the funds to begin their massive refurbishment scheme. Today (Friday, December...
This fantastic gallery of pictures comes from city theatre company What We Did Next, who will be recapturing the magic of fairy tales this Christmas with their production of Stephen Sondheim???s Into the Woods. The Tony award-winning musical inter...
Feeling generous? City-based dance organisation MDI will have just five days next week to raise ?2000 in donations from members of the public in the next round of The Big Give Christmas Challenge 2011. The donation challenge follows on from MDI???...
Christmas? Oh, go on then. Let's get things started. MADEUP hasn't accidentally wandered into Desperate Scousewives territory ??? pictured above are former X Factor finalists DivaFever, the headline act of brand new festive variety show Camp as Ch...
How time flies. Construction of the new Everyman on Hope Street will commence on Monday (November 28), with contractors Gilbert-Ash taking over the site from Sloyan Doyle, who have handled the deconstruction of the building since its summer closur...
Playwright Lizzie Nunnery rounds off another busy year as her latest touring production makes it to her home town. The Man with the Luggage, an adaptation of Eugene Ionesco's absurdist classic, comes to Hope University???s Capstone Theatre next week...
Our friends at the Phil have, as the Americans like to say, been doing the math. And they've deduced comedian Ken Dodd has spent 89 hours on their stage, cracking some 38,128 jokes at there over the years. Us journos can't resist a good stat, and ...
Grin Productions are heading back to the Lantern Theatre next week (Friday and Saturday December 2 & 3) for their final performances of the year. The first is the premiere of On the Edge, a surreal black comedy from local writer Sam Freeman, descr...
David Morrissey's Macbeth was one of the theatre events of the year and the last production at the Everyman theatre before its closure (and how time flies -- there is now a hole in the street where the venue once stood). From today, a film of the ...
The Playhouse???s Gemma Bodinetz and A Streetcar Named Desire -- should have seen this one coming! The Tennessee Williams classic has been unveiled as one of the highlights of the theatre???s spring season with its artistic director at the helm, and c...
