Making a living as a Rat Pack tribute act - emulating some of the most iconic figures in entertainment history - has to take cojones. And when you pull it off, replicating that classic Vegas swing style, it must feel a million dollars. Off days, n...
Musical comedy brothers Jollyboat (above, in Cheerios bath) are celebrating the launch of their new YouTube channel with a promise to upload a new song every week. Tommy and Ed Croft, best known for their pirate-themed pop parodies, set up the Jol...
Next! is a one-man dark comedy on its second outing. Devised by actor Graham Hicks and director Chris Tomlinson, it first came to the Unity last year as part of its Making Art programme. Its recent two night run to rapturous audiences showed it ha...
They promised a rollercoaster of emotions with their latest show, and it still remains the best catch-all description of What We Did Next???s sensational production of Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens. Written by Bill Russell in 1989, it ...
Proving there is life after YEP, a group of graduates of the Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse Young Writers programme have teamed up to form a new collective, the Annexe Writers. They will present Remember, Remember, a night of six short plays thi...
What's James Franco got to do with anything? Is she doing that thing again where she sticks up a photo of a tenuously linked A-list star to a thing that actually has nothing to do with them, just to use a pretty picture? Not this time, dear reader...
We love a Playhouse season launch, and this week saw the theatre announce three exciting new in-house productions for next year as well as the return of a few familiar faces. They had previously spilled the beans about Roger McGough???s new adaptati...
It???s been a hectic few months for Liverpool actor Graham Hicks, about to culminate with a reprisal of his role in one-man show Next! this weekend. Devised by Hicks and Chris Tomlinson as part of the Unity???s Making Art Plus scheme, the play is desc...
Drinking an Epstein real ale in the Epstein theatre waiting for curtain up on Epstein, the show, about Epstein, the Beatles manager, there was a sense the pudding might have been somewhat overegged. Arguably the production the new venue had been w...
Our friends at Spike Theatre will be giving their trademark puppetry and dark fairy tale stylings the festive treatment this year with a production of Dickens's A Christmas Carol, talking place at the Lantern Theatre from December 1 to 10. The wor...
If you???re watching a What We Did Next production and a call goes out for a doctor in the house, you should be fine. Arguably the most exciting exciting non-professional theatre company working in the city at the moment, WWDN is largely comprised...
It may not have the high profile or the budget of some of the shows that have been wowing the Empire crowds recently, but the current tour of 42nd Street really holds its own to charm and inspire in equal measure. Packed with Broadway classics and...
Held is a finely conceived, beautifully executed new play; a perfect example of the kind of work that audiences should be seeing at the top of the Playhouse, and a memorable piece of art in its own right. The first full length play by Joe Ward Mun...
He???s the biggest-selling solo artist in classical music and beloved around the world, so being able to see him on your doorstep ??? on a night where the traffic is stopped so they can film Fast and Furious 6 in the tunnels, no less ??? feels like quit...
Liverpool Arabic Arts Festival???s Funny Arabs brings New York based Arab comedienne Maysoon Zayid to Liverpool for the first time this month. She'll be playing the Epstein Theatre on November 25. Funny Arabs is billed as "a laugh about living in th...
It's been called 'the drag show at the end of the world', brought to life by a performer who refers himself as a 'drag fabulist'. If that doesn't sound like two of the most wonderfully evocative descriptions of anything, ever, then this won't be t...
Tomorrow night (Thursday, November 6) sees the first public performance of a play designed to show young people the stark reality of becoming involved with gangs and guns. Terriers was commissioned by Merseyside Police in 2008. Written by local pl...
Lights Up Entertainment will be holding open auditions for their Valentine???s Day production of I Love You Because, a musical set in modern day New York City inspired by Jane Austen???s classic novel Pride and Prejudice. The story centers around a yo...
A celebrated piece of physical theatre comes to the Unity this month in tribute to one of its most inspiring collaborators, the late Nigel Charnock. Based on Shakespeare???s sonnets, L.O.V.E. is regarded as one of Volcano physical theatre company's ...
The night before Halloween is known as Mischief Night, which could have made it the best possible time for Scottie Road - the Musical to be unleashed on the public. A sordid tale of the dire consequences of assualting Primark staff with their own ...
