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Who'd have thunk it? We'll be seeing a whole new side to clean-cut Welsh opera-lite star Rhydian Roberts as he pops up at the Empire early next year wearing naught but leopard print speedos and a smile. Here's the first pic of Rhydian, who came ru...
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...
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...
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...
A last-minute addition to the Liverpool Empire's winter line-up will see burlesque performer Immodesty Blaize bring "a feather and diamond encrusted spectacular live music theatrical show" to the venue on December 2. Inspired by the glamour of ico...
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...
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...
How do they do it? One wrong step, and you???ve broken an ankle falling off one of those slinky heels, or sliced off your dance partner???s knackers. It???s the tango, that mind-bogglingly precise form of leg-swishing, lady-flingin??? moves that, done rig...
If you look in the programme of Avenue Q you won???t find a list of song titles; and that could possibly be some of the fun. If you???ve made it to the interval following Everyone???s a Little Bit Racist, The Internet???s for Porn and a graphic puppet sex...
Interesting news from the Ambassador Theatre Group, which owns and runs the Liverpool Empire, as it has announced a new writing project. The Empire is home to many a touring show, including many produced by ATG, but certainly not known as a champi...
Here's an idea -- no real clue at the moment whether it's a good or bad one, mind -- Top of the Pops LIVE. A "nostalgic interactive jukebox" celebrating the greatest hits by the biggest stars in the world of pop from the 70s, 80s and 90s ??? from TR...
For a show that opened in the West End in 2009 and on Broadway just over a year ago, Sister Act has come a long way in a short time. Whoopi Goldberg mightn't have brilliant ideas about everything, but with this one, the lady was certainly on to a ...
Dancing in the Streets is a merry-go-round of a jukebox musical, no stranger to the Empire stage but quite fun all the same. The kind of show that you know will con you into a standing ovation by making you dance for the last fifteen minutes, but ...
"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...
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...
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...
It's always the best, when a show you didn't have any great expectation of knocks you into orbit. But The King & I is simply a stunner. This revival of the Rogers & Hammerstein classic was a joy from beginning to end. Combining elements of perform...
This is the much-lauded production transferred from the Barbican Theatre in London, with the star to prove it, ex-EastEnders baby kidnapper, Ronnie Mitchell herself, Samantha Womak. The Rogers and Hammerstein classic initially felt right at home o...
