This cute little fella is the Gingerbread Man, and he's special because thanks to the Actors Studio's Turn Up the Heat campaign, he will be the star of the venue's first ever Christmas production. The tiny theatre's fundraising drive was a complet...
A new dramatisation of Thomas Hardy's novel A Pair of Blue Eyes is coming to the Lantern Theatre on Saturday, November 10. As the jpegs sent over were too small, I took the brave and entirely selfless editorial decision to illustrate this story wi...
The brilliant annual LGBT arts festival Homotopia launched last night, and one of the most intriguing works in its extensive programme is Council House Movie Star, described as "an immersive live arts installation exploring themes of ageing and th...
It's perfect for Les Dennis, and perfect for the Royal Court: Jigsy, the one-man play about a faded Liverpool comic. The show, penned by Tony Staveacre, is 'loosely' based on the Scouse stand up Jackie Hamilton, and comes to the city after a succe...
It???s been a year since the Lantern Theatre was taken over by new owners, and the tiny venue is now ready to realise some big plans. MADEUP talks to its artistic director. When one door closes another opens, and that was certainly the case last Oct...
For anyone aspiring to be a writer, wanting to see a new play in development or wanting to work with the UK???s leading practitioners, Everyword 2012 new writing festival, which starts today, is a week of new stories, inspiring workshops and creativ...
After the snazz, pomp and camp of all the theatre in town recently, it was quite nice to sit down, relax and enjoy a beautifully simple, classic play. No eye-popping merengues, dazzling crucifixes or gold lame to be seen, just English Touring Thea...
If Joan Rivers was Frankie Boyle, she'd never be out of the papers for scandal. If she was Jimmy Carr, she'd have the professionally outraged demanding her head on a spike every other week. Rivers in full flow on stage could actually be the most o...
"A darkly comic and deeply moving 20th century icon for the new millennium" is the description of a new play based on the scripts of Galton and Simpson???s Steptoe and Son, coming to the Playhouse from November 6 to 10. Last seen on the city stage w...
Theatre crosses paths with the Biennial again this weekend with Deadline, a city-wide live action game for teams of up to ten people. Devised by Hope Street Ltd, the day long, interactive game takes place across the centre of Liverpool. From 11am ...
Never, in my wildest dreams dear reader, did I ever imagine a picture of Chris Moyles would greet you on entrance to MADEUP.LV. Aside from the fact it was the only picture the right size for requirements, after a night at Jesus Christ Superstar, i...
What is the future for Liverpool's youth? How do you think we can fix things? An evening of performance, debate and activism featuring some of the city's most vital names in young people's theatre will be taking place at The Brink this Friday (Oct...
The Anfield Home Tour is a piece of theatre that takes place largely on a minibus, in an effort to get us city centre types out to the Biennial's ultimate hidden gem, the 2Up2Down/ Homebaked project in north Liverpool. Artist Jeanne van Heeswijk h...
L1. Gregg???s. TJ Hughes. The Cavern. Sausage rolls. Binbags. Welcome to the world of Caz and Britney, your heroines and guides to Liverpool in new show Scottie Road: the Musical. Keddy Sutton and Gillian Hardie are the pair behind scally double act...
ThickSkin theatre comes to the Unity later this month with new play The Static. The show, which impressed the critics during its world premiere run at the 2012 Edinburgh Fringe, is described as "a kinetic coming-of age story about desire, guilt an...
Talk about guilty pleasure. Dirty Dancing has been a long time coming to the Liverpool Empire, and it turns out that it provides an audience experience quite unlike anything there before. It is a ridiculous premise; it's not been turned into a mus...
The Liverpool Comedy Festival finally returned after a long absence of 18 months, and offered an impressive range of gigs, from the bread and butter of the circuit to John Bishop's arena run. MADEUP didn't get to see as much of proceedings as usua...
Some of the most interesting and innovative dance work being created by northern artists will be showcased at the Unity Theatre this week Northern Dances, presented by Merseyside Dance Initiative on Thursday (October 11) brings together talented c...
Everybody has things they want to do by the time they???re 30, and actor Stephen Fletcher hasn???t been doing things by halves. It has been a busy year so far and shows no sign of slowing down as he prepares his biggest project to date -- brand ne...
The Vogue Ball returns to Liverpool this weekend, and from the buzz it already sounds as if the event -- the fourth of its kind in the city -- will be the biggest and best yet. Here, in no discernable order, are ten good reasons to get your ass do...
