"Sister Act The Musical is set to take Liverpool by storm from Tuesday May 22, and to celebrate we have 20 nuns visiting the city..." the promotional email ran. Well, that'll do MADEUP! It turns out tomorrow (Saturday) is Liverpool's first -- pres...
I Guess I Wish is a new musical written by Yale student Jeremy Lloyd, that had never before been performed in the UK ahead of its premiere this week courtesy of new production company Lights Up Entertainment. Clocking in at just over 50 minutes, i...
The cast -- and puppets -- of hit musical Avenue Q dropped by the Empire this afternoon. The national tour is currently playing at the Lowry in Manchester, so puppeteers including Gabrielle Broomes (far right, with yellow Bad Idea Bear), who has p...
The cast of high speed musical Starlight Express will be putting on their skates and racing to Liverpool Empire Theatre this July as a part of an all new national tour. It???s fair enough to say Starlight is one of the most unique musical experien...
MADEUP is pleased to hear that Tell Tale Theatre Company is returning with a new production next month. Users is inspired by the characters and events of Irvine Welsh???s Trainspotting. Described as ???an ensemble piece with a mixture of devised and s...
Paperwork, which has a final performance tomorrow at the Unity (Saturday May 5), is "a dark comedy inspired by the bureaucratic systems of life and the act of waiting". Theatre company Caustic Widows invites you to delve into the darker side of hu...
This week saw the final episode of The Tragical Past and Mysterious Present of Sodem Hall, this year???s soap opera from Impropriety. Knowing full well what our local impro chums are like having put a few shifts in as an audience member of their 33-...
A UK premiere staged by students from LIPA and funded by a successful crowd-funding campaign takes place at the Unity Theatre next week. A group of eight young directors from all over Europe will present the UK premiere of I Guess I Wish next Wedn...
Celebrated playwright Frank McGuinness???s new play The Match Box will have its world premi??re in Liverpool this June. Award-winning actor and director Lia Williams will direct Leanne Best in the role of Sal at the Playhouse Studio from June 14 to J...
Liverpool Central Station closed this week for a six month refurb, a move that has left commuters mighty peeved indeed. Inconvenienced? Why not dance those blues away! In the great traditions of Michael Jackson's Bad video and, erm, Starlight Expr...
Interesting news from the Royal Court, which has announced two new shows in conjunction with Lodestar Theatre Company and The Liverpool Shakespeare Festival. This Autumn, the bard will be back at the venue for the first time in 15 years, with prod...
Illyria by Bryony Lavery marks the finale of an exciting season of work from Young Everyman & Playhouse. The story of a journalist in a war-torn country, this 70 minute one act play is the culmination of a wide variety of performances from YEP, an...
Here's an absolutely stunning set of production pictures from Henry V, currently running at the Playhouse theatre. The show, a collaboration with Shakespeare's Globe and directed by its artistic director Dominic Dromgoole, is an authentic and visu...
Initial signs had been positive for I Dreamed a Dream. It had been treated with caution but eventually taken seriously by national and regional press, and reviews from them had been good. With the best will in the world though, this show doesn't a...
The Martini Lounge Burlesque and Variety Show brings its Spring Fling showcase to the new Epstein Theatre later this month. On Saturday April 28, the newly revamped venue will boast a number of debutantes, starting with an act regarded as ???burle...
Comedian Laurence Clark promises ???a personal, frighteningly relevant, one-man mission and hilarious journey??? -- with his latest show, Health Hazard, coming to the Unity Theatre on May 2. Clark, from West Derby, is a comedian, presenter, writer and...
UNFORTUNATELY, THIS PERFORMANCE HAS HAD TO BE POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE DUE TO ILLNESS. Harpist and playwright Rebecca Joy Sharp will be presenting a unique and original new work to accompany Liverpool's marking of the Titanic centenary and t...
Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse marked the opening night of Henry V tonight, directed by Shakespeare???s Globe Artistic Director Dominic Dromgoole and with History Boys star Jamie Parker in the titular role. Henry V is now on at the Playhouse until...
Liverpool actor David Yip's critically acclaimed Gold Mountain returns to the Unity Theatre this week. First staged in 2010, it tells the tale of David Yee, trying to piece together the broken jigsaw of his father???s life ??? exploring his ramblings ...
The next work from the writers of Grin Productions will be 3 Women, a series of monologues by three up-and-coming new playwrights. The Game is the debut play by writer Craig Arnold, directed by Ben Hallworth and starring Donna Lesley-Price (Kick T...
