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November 28, 2018 / 0 Comments
Broken Biscuits returns to the Liverpool stage
TRISHA Duffy’s emotional drama Broken Biscuits has moved on since its 2014 debut, and can be seen in the Royal Court Studio this week.
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November 15, 2018 / 0 Comments
Succour Punch Theatre strip away stereotypes
A debut play from a new female-led Liverpool theatre company is promising to “command your senses and leave you on your knees begging for more“. Ooer…
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October 26, 2018 / 0 Comments
Liverpool Improvathon 2018: Where There’s a Will…
WHERE there’s a will, Liverpool’s Impropriety have always found a way – even if it takes them a day and a half…
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October 15, 2018 / 1 Comment
New musical Long Joan Silver sails into Hope Street
LONG Joan Silver is a new original comic musical opening in Liverpool this week. The first full theatre show from Liverpool Arts Society – a collective that up to now has been found hosting immersive events in clubs like EBGBs and the Jacaranda – is described as “Monty Python does pirates”, and is being performed […]
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September 18, 2018 / 0 Comments
SPOTLIGHT ON: Falling Doors Theatre
A FRINGE production of an American drama examining the dark side of virtual reality will be staged in Liverpool this month. The Nether, a sci-fi thriller from American playwright Jennifer Haley, is set in a dystopian future and imagines a virtual world where crimes including child abuse and murder are indulged. The play premiered in […]
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September 13, 2018 / 0 Comments
STOP!…The Play: Liverpool premiere
THE LIVERPOOL premiere of comedy farce STOP!… The Play opens at the Hope Street Theatre next week, with five performances from September 19 to 22. Peridot Productions’ madcap, theatrical romp, from playwright David Spicer, is directed by Michael Wolf (Brexitus, Posh) and Matthew Khan, and performed by a cast of LIPA students, graduates and professional […]
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August 22, 2018 / 0 Comments
Theatre group run in memory of founder member
A TEAM from city-based community theatre company What We Did Next will be taking on the Great North Run, in memory of one of their founding members who died this summer.
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August 7, 2018 / 0 Comments
New Austen adaptation heads to the Playhouse
THE Liverpool Playhouse will celebrate 200 years of the work of one of Britain’s greatest authors by hosting the first ever stage production of Jane Austen’s Persuasion this October.
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August 2, 2018 / 0 Comments
Off the Ground tours new adaptation of Sinbad
THERE’S still time to catch outdoor theatre specialists Off the Ground this summer, currently touring their own adaptation of Sinbad – “like you’ve never seen it before.” The production still has some performances in Wirral and Cheshire before heading over to Ireland later this month. Written by novelist and company graduate Connor Wray, who also […]
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July 22, 2018 / 0 Comments
Hope Street Limited bows out with ‘biggest and best’ final show
AFTER 30 years of providing training, guidance and support to emerging artists in Liverpool, Hope Street Limited‘s latest performance piece, Climate Change is Rubbish, is sadly also its last.
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July 11, 2018 / 0 Comments
LEAP returns with suffrage theme, marks 25 years of MDI
THE LEAP contemporary dance festival will return this November, organisers MDI have announced. The theme is suffrage, in a tribute to the suffragette movement marking 100 years since women were first given the right to vote. And in celebration of this, the festival will feature female protagonists in each of the dance performances, all of […]
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June 11, 2018 / 0 Comments
Raunchy comedy The Plumbing comes to Liverpool Fringe
THE Plumbing, a new production from Bespectacled Theatre opening at The Casa this week, is described as “a raunchy new comedy about sex and growing up”.
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June 1, 2018 / 0 Comments
King of the World trumps the Liverpool Fringe Fest
A DARK comedy examining life of the powerless under despotic regimes will premiere in Liverpool next week. King of the World is set in a land ruthlessly ruled over by a perma-tanned monarch with strange orange hair – although, “any similarity to any present day President is entirely coincidental, of course,” teases playwright Brian Coyle.
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May 31, 2018 / 0 Comments
Sondheim’s Assassins marks ten years of What We Did Next
COMMUNITY musical theatre group What We Did Next celebrates ten years of productions this year – and are bringing Stephen Sondheim’s dark, Tony award-winning Assassins to the Unity next week.
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May 27, 2018 / 0 Comments
Confessions of a Touring Nun brings cabaret to Hope Street
FOLLOWING last year’s debut Christmas production of Beauty and the Beast, Drops of Light CIC are back this June with a brand new show in Liverpool’s newest venue, The Hope Street Theatre. Confessions of a Touring Nun is the first in a series of cabarets from the company and sees creative director James Lacey return […]
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May 23, 2018 / 0 Comments
“It’s all about the chaos”: Family-friendly comedy in Liverpool
THE Royal Court has seen some sights on stage and off over the years, but nothing quite like the recent debut of the It’s a Scream comedy club for parents and babies. Family-friendly comedy is on the rise across the city – providing children of all ages with a tailor-made first taste of live entertainment, […]
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May 14, 2018 / 0 Comments
Billie Holiday ‘jazz fantasy’ comes to the Unity
Writer, director, performer, poet and jazz singer Cheryl Martin is bringing her Billie Holiday-inspired show Who Wants to Live Forever? to the Unity this month as part of a UK tour. The hour-long, one-woman show will come to Liverpool on May 24. Described as “a jazz fantasy about loss, love and hope, set among the […]
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May 9, 2018 / 0 Comments
New Tmesis show set for autumn premiere
LIVERPOOL-based physical theatre company Tmesis has announced it will premiere its latest production in the city this autumn. Beyond Belief will open at the Unity Theatre on September 28, continuing through to October 6. The performance piece examines what would happen if you could live forever – if you could bring your loved one back […]
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May 6, 2018 / 0 Comments
The Ruby Slippers returns!
LGBT comedy-drama The Ruby Slippers is coming back to Liverpool this summer, in another new space in the Royal Court. A studio space is opening up in the Roe Street venue, and the show stops by from July 24 to 28 as part of this year’s Liverpool Pride programme. Life is a drag at The […]
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April 19, 2018 / 0 Comments
Ahoy there MATE-ys: Prescot company off to Treasure Island
A “SPECTACULAR steampunk inspired re-imagining” of Robert Louis Stephenson’s pirate epic Treasure Island will be touring outdoor venues in the region this summer before an Edinburgh Fringe run – and the fun begins this weekend as the production debuts at the Unity Theatre. Directed and produced by Prescot-based MATE’s artistic director Gaynor La Rocca with […]
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