Following a season of work that has transferred to London and toured the UK, including The Misanthrope, A Day in The Death of Joe Egg and The Match Box, the Playhouse leads on world premières and creative collaboration this autumn. Melody Loses Her Mojo, a vibrant new work by Keith Saha produced in collaboration [...]
Up-and-coming city playwright Laura Kate-Barrow has seen her work feature across a number of new writing showcases recently, and this week premieres her first full-length play. Trolley-Shaped Bruise is on at the Unity Theatre tonight (May 21) and tomorrow. Taking place over the course of one night, the play is a glimpse into the lives [...]
Slung Low, the Leeds-based theatre company behind the Everyman’s 2010 Anthology performances and the theatre’s closing ceremony, returned to Liverpool last week as part of their nationwide search to uncover everything we know. You might have seen the Knowledge Emporium, an old fashioned sweet shop converted from a 60s’ caravan, plonked outside the Playhouse, where [...]
The Annexe Writers present their latest show Myths in the unusual venue of Maya, next to FACT, on May 28. Directed by Mark Till, Myths is the group’s fourth night of new theatre in the city, and they’re calling it their biggest and most ambitious yet. With plays by Laura Kate Barrow, Katharine Boon, David [...]
“Congratulations on ten years of gay lunacy!” – so yelped Pink Flamingos director John Waters in what could be the best ever variation on the usually deathly dull ‘I’m really looking forward to blah blah blah’ press release quote. Today, Homotopia made the large and rather exciting announcement that the Pope of Trash himself will [...]
In its 30th anniversary year, internationally renowned theatre company Complicite come to the Liverpool Playhouse to present Lionboy, their first show for young people and families. The show, inspired by Zizou Corder’s bestselling trilogy, will be at the Liverpool Playhouse from June 4 to 8. Lionboy tells the story of Charlie Ashanti, who is [...]