It's always the best, when a show you didn't have any great expectation of knocks you into orbit. But The King & I is simply a stunner. This revival of the Rogers & Hammerstein classic was a joy from beginning to end. Combining elements of perform...
Liverpool annual late-night arts and culture festival LightNight returns on May 18. LightNighters can expect special underground tours, a mass sing-along, candle-lit labyrinth, fascinating exhibitions and open studios, Chinese arts showcase, archi...
The bi-annual TiLT Dance Platform returns for its first showcase of 2012 this week. On Wednesday and Thursday (April 4 and 5), the Kazimier will play host to two exciting evenings of dance performance from the best up-and-coming dance companies fr...
The Suitcase Ensemble is hosting some creative workshops dedicated to the local legend of Spring-Heeled Jack, described as "a proper Victorian Bogeyman (....or was he?) last spotted clinging to St. Francis Xavier's church in Everton". The collecti...
A beautiful new play exploring the remarkable life of one of literature???s greatest writers, Mary Shelley, opens at the Liverpool Playhouse from May 9 to 12. Written by award-winning playwright Helen Edmundson, Mary Shelley is a bold exploration of...
Fresh from their 33-and-a-half hour non-stop Improvathon earlier in the month, our chums at Impropriety are about to throw themselves into another of their unique annual events ??? a six part, weekly soap opera. The Tragical Past and Mysterious Pr...
The Games is a fantastic little show that has developed over the last couple of years from a one-off at the Unity to a success on the Edinburgh Fringe, and now a full on touring production. Hooray for Spike Theatre (for it is they), and their tena...
Bare is a forbidden teen romance with a twist. A pop opera set in an American Catholic boarding school, it tells the story of roommates Peter and Jason -- more than friends, his mother correctly guesses, although she can't bear to hear it. Bookish...
Andrew Schofield and Stephen Fletcher have played everything on the Liverpool stage from father and son-in-law to Lennon and McCartney, and recently took that working relationship one step further by going out on their own to direct and stage thei...
As Young Everyman and Playhouse go from strength to strength at the minute, there is a chance to see what they've been doing behind the scenes next week. The theatres' Young Technicians are getting ready to showcase a larger than life piece of pub...
It could be coincidental timing for a new piece of writing set against the backdrop of a Merseyside derby, as one might be due by the time this premiere comes round. The Match is an original play forming part of the Write Now one act festival, whi...
Possibly a suitable post to follow on from a Doug Stanhope review, Thirsty is a new, acclaimed touring show inspired by and based on our nation???s love affair with alcohol. Fusing live music, verbatim text and physical theatre, theatre company The ...
MADEUP made a rare trip north in the name of entertainment this week, to catch US comedian Doug Stanhope at Southport Theatre. This was a deliberate choice; Stanhope plays the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall next month, but after a disastrous gig in t...
MADEUP had headed to Oedipussy with high hopes. You've got to love a silly play on words; you've got to love a company that sees some kind of potential in mashing up a Greek tragedy with classic Bond. They must know what they're doing... don't the...
Two Liverpool theatres are offering chances for supporters of the venues get get involved immortalising themselves as part of their massive regeneration campaigns. The Royal Court Liverpool Trust has just launched its Adopt-a-Seat campaign, to ren...
It was fun to catch a performance of You Are Being Watched this afternoon, a new comedy performance from Young Everyman and Playhouse. The play began in the Static Gallery before taking the entire audience down to Liverpool One for a very public f...
If you really really must read another site about arts and culture in this city, let me direct you over to Seven Streets, where I've had a couple of things published recently that are worth a mention here. First of all, it turned out 800 words on ...
Fringe First winner Inua Ellams brings his latest play to the Unity tonight and tomorrow (Friday and Saturday) ahead of a run at the National Theatre. Black T-shirt Collection is a new story about two brothers building a global t-shirt brand. On t...
The team behind the Tales From Haunted Liverpool series return with a brand new show this Easter: Tales From Charles Dickens. Staged in a city claimed by Dickens himself as his favourite after London, and performed in a venue he described as the m...
The latest Young Everyman Playhouse season continues this weekend with a promenade comedy production based on Britain???s surveillance society called You Are Being Watched, to be performed at Static Gallery on Saturday and Sunday (March 10 and 11)...
