This autumn Liverpool Comedy Festival is finally back, it being some 15 months or so since the last event. And organisers are saying it has the biggest ever line up to boot. Some 95 shows will take place across seven days between September 27 and ...
Inspired is Liverpool comic Laurence Clark???s second homecoming show of the year. Playing to a packed out Unity theatre last night, he presented his latest show Inspired, funded by London 2012. This didn???t affect the show???s content, in which Clark,...
After the success of their first ever production The Picture of Dorian Gray earlier in the year, new theatre company Script in Hand Productions are bringing their latest show Alice to the Epstein Theatre on Saturday (September 1) as part of the ve...
Wandering out of the Bluecoat into the rain, I wasn???t sure if I had enjoyed The Ugly Spirit. I certainly wasn???t sure if I???d understood it. I???d been left not quite sure of anything. Just about the one thing I did know was I had come away from one o...
Liverpool actress Pauline Daniels returns to the Playhouse for the next world premiere at in the Studio this November. She will be appearing with Alan Stocks and Ged McKenna in Held, the debut play by Joe Ward Munrow. Daniels, who will play the mo...
More details have been revealed of plans for this year''s Liverpool Shakespeare Festival, which takes place at the newly refurbished Royal Court between September 21 and October 14. Taking centre-stage this year are two brand new productions perfo...
"People ask me if being disfigured has had a big effect on my sex life, and the answer is yes, but not nearly as much as being raised Catholic,??? chuckles David Roche. It???s the tagline to his new one-man show, and he knows it???s a doozy. ???I call mys...
New play 12, an adaptation of the Reginald Rose classic 12 Angry Men, premieres at the Lantern Theatre this week. Walton-based playwright Shaun Fagan, who also stars as the foreman of the jury in 12, is a member of YEP, the Everyman and Playhouse ...
Some of the best known faces on the Liverpool stage have announced they are teaming up for a brand new Christmas show this year. Stephen Fletcher, Andrew Schofield, Eithne Brown, Alan Stocks, Helen Carter, Rachel Rae, Keddy Sutton and Paul Duckwor...
This motley crew pictured above, as you might guess, are bringing a bit of Gilbert and Sullivan fun to the masses this month with another great British tradition of jovality and hope: Outdoor summer theatre. Picnics and plastic ponchos at the read...
The Ugly Spirit, a macabre slice of theatre that delves deep into the minds of troubled conjoined twins, will be performed at the Bluecoat as part of DaDaFest next week (August 21 & 22). A new piece by Liverpool-based Fittings Multimedia Arts, The...
A few weeks ago I wrote about Knowsley-based group Altru drama, and how they had been picked as one of the community theatre companies to perform on the outdoor stage of the Royal Shakespeare Company as part of the World Shakespeare Festival. To c...
Toxteth-based community theatre group 20 Stories High has been nominated for the chance to win ?5000 to expand their programme, and need public votes to be in with a chance. Lloyds Banking Group Community Fund provides funding to organisations wor...
Annie is this year???s production from the Liverpool Empire Stage Experience, which you can catch this week. More than 100 local young performers will be involved in the project, which gives them just two weeks to rehearse and put on a full scale mu...
It isn???t every day a theatre company promises an experience that will leave audience members unsure whether to laugh, cry or be sick, but that is the intent of Municipal Theatre London, which is previewing a new work in Liverpool next week before ...
As the Playhouse's recent production of Alan Aykbourn's Norman Conquest showed, the theatre knows good things happen in threes. And so, following the huge successes of Tartuffe and The Hypochondriac, the venue will complete a trilogy of Roger McGo...
You might remember Come On Girls!, the live chat show/ comedy evening from some of the talented ladies of Impropriety. It ran for a few 'episodes' this time last year at Studio Liverpool, featuring musical guests, interviews, fun, games and genera...
As Combo in This Is England, he put in one of the most truly terrifying turns in modern British cinema, and went on to rub shoulders with the cream of Hollywood in several Martin Scorsese projects. Fortunately, Stephen Graham doesn???t appear to b...
The Ripple Effect was commissioned by the ATG Foundation ??? the charitable arm of the Ambassador Group, which runs the Empire, as part of the London 2012 Festival, to celebrate the Olympic Games. Sounds good, right? Where fellow Merseysider Frank C...
Is Hairspray the new Chicago? After a spectacular run at the Empire in 2012, the show returns to Liverpool next year, with tickets going on sale tomorrow (Monday, July 30). Stage and screen star Mark Benton will lead the company of the award-winni...
