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It's been a busy year for Liverpool based PurpleCoat Productions, following on from their collaboration with the Royal Shakespeare Company at the CUC last year. Their production of Titus Andronicus prompted none other than Stephen Fry to donate to...
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...
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...
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...
The Lantern Theatre is to turn its hand to comedy with a night of stand up next month. On Sunday, October 7, our pal Silky will be returning to Liverpool to headline A Rush of Laughter. Joined by Scott Bennett, whose accolades include being named ...
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 ...
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 ...
Queertet is the first theatre offering as part of the programme of Liverpool Pride, a great idea that highlights some real grass-roots talent to boot. But despite the Nautical but Nice theme of this year???s festival, it wasn???t all plain sailing for...
Liverpool Pride launched in style last night with a booze cruise across the Mersey ??? a rather snazzy first for the annual LGBT event. And here???s another -- Queertet 2012, four short, original LGBT themed plays by local writers produced especia...
They kissed a gull and they liked it! They really really really wanna give a big ARRR! Yes, of all the musical pirate comedy acts out there, Jollyboat has to be our very favourite. And they???re back, back, back with a run of Liverpool shows next ...
Kick Theatre presents a new production of Timberlake Wertenbaker's Our Country???s Good next month. Directed by Donna Lesley Price, the classic piece is set in Australia in 1789. A young lieutenant is directing rehearsals of the first play ever to b...
For those checking out the final day of the Threshold Festival today (Sunday), there is a whole programme of acts on at the Lantern Theatre, headlined later this evening by comedy duo Undercover Blondde (pictured). The pair (double 'D', naturally)...
Hope In Boxes and A Light In Every Window are two poignant and intriguing new plays by award-winning writer Nicola Schofield, coming to The Lantern Theatre for one night only following their premiere at The Lowry. Hope In Boxes sees two grandchild...
The final production of the year from city centre theatre group Grin Productions has just enjoyed two successful nights at the Lantern Theatre. The group exists to encourage new writers, performers and directors, so it was good to go along and cat...
Grin Productions are heading back to the Lantern Theatre next week (Friday and Saturday December 2 & 3) for their final performances of the year. The first is the premiere of On the Edge, a surreal black comedy from local writer Sam Freeman, descr...
The Lantern Theatre will be whisking us off to warmer climes and more innocent times this weekend, as it presents the touring production of Sunny Rhyl by Dividers Productions. A new play by Paul Kelly and directed by Steve Davies, Sunny Rhyl is se...
Members of Happystorm Theatre Company thought they were in for the long arm of the law this week after realising they'd parked a van full of violent-looking props in the middle of the Labour Party Conference site. Joint artistic director Matthew G...
Liverpool-based community theatre group Grin Productions are returning to The Lantern Theatre this week with new play Mexico. Written by resident playwright Wes Williams and directed by John Maguire (Mrs Bojangles, Write Now Festival 2011), Mexico...
Dream On tells the story of wide-eyed Rochdale lad Paul (Bradley Cross), on holiday at a Welsh campsite with his overbearing mother when he meets wayward Londoner George (Joe Gosling). Mutually intrigued, the spark between them soon turns into som...
The Lantern Theatre is on the hunt for a new owner. The fringe venue was established on Blundell Street in the Baltic Triangle area in 2009, but now family and other business commitments mean current managers Liam and Clare Keating can no longer c...
