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  October 11, 2017 / 0 Comments

  Liverpool Irish Festival play explores arranged marriage in Ireland 

  A new play exploring the “unheard-of” subject of arranged marriages in Ireland is performing as part of the Liverpool Irish Festival. Body & Blood by Lorraine Mullaney is on at The Capstone Theatre for two nights only on Monday and Tuesday October 23 and 24. An open Q&A with the writer and cast will follow […]

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  September 25, 2017 / 0 Comments

  Football and dance combine in acclaimed performance coming to Liverpool

  Five professional dancers will perform with five football players and even a referee, in an intriguing new piece of dance theatre coming to Liverpool for one performance only. The Match, by Barcelona-based international company Vero Cendoya Dance, will come to Toxteth’s FireFit hub pitch next month. 

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  September 8, 2017 / 0 Comments

  Liverpool’s improvised soap is back, back, BACK!

  It’s been a few years, but Impropriety have announced the return of their improvised soap opera concept this month, with a Swinging Sixties theme.  Their unscripted, ongoing story, The Happening, will run every Monday for six weeks, from September 18 until October 23. 81 Renshaw is the venue hosting this year’s show. They say: “Come […]

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  August 28, 2017 / 3 Comments

  Why Liverpool needs MDI

  A few months ago when Arts Council England announced their funding allocation for the next four years, one of the shocks that came out of it was the dropping of Liverpool’s MDI as a National Portfolio Organisation (NPO). Headlines around that time always focus on the positive, the theatres and companies that successfully secure another […]

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  August 6, 2017 / 0 Comments

  Comic Edy Hurst creates theme park in new show

  Manchester-based comedian Edy Hurst comes to Liverpool this week with a free preview of his Edinburgh show, Theme Show. Promising “lo-fi props with spectacularly daft surprises”, his debut hour long show sees him “plundering against forces far beyond his reach” (in his own words) to create the world’s greatest theme park. That’s right. With years […]

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  July 25, 2017 / 0 Comments

  Off the Ground’s Around the World in 80 Days

  Off the Ground Theatre starts its annual summer tour of open air performances this week, with its latest production Around the World in 80 Days. Adapted from the original Jules Verne novel by Off the Ground’s own Jim Foggin, who previously adapted Alice in Wonderland and Witches Abroad and who wrote A Legend of King […]

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  July 11, 2017 / 0 Comments

  Liverpool Arts Society to host immersive 1920s event 

  A free and “completely immersive” 1920s themed event takes place in the city this week, courtesy of Liverpool Arts Society and their latest happening, Prohibit.  For one night only, they’ll be taking audiences to 1920s New York and stepping into a living, breathing speakeasy called ‘Jimmy’s Place’. The entry will be through EBGBs on Seel […]

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  June 29, 2017 / 0 Comments

  New play Declaration looks at mental health in the modern age

  Declaration is a new touring play that examines the faces we wear to fit in – and what happens when we are forced to declare our differences.  It comes to the Black-E in Liverpool this weekend for its final performance on Saturday (July 1). Developed in consultation with medical professionals and mental health support groups, […]

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  June 27, 2017 / 0 Comments

  Magical musical Pippin comes to the Unity

  Liverpool theatre company What We Did Next will be performing the award-winning musical Pippin, from tomorrow (Wednesday, June 28) until Saturday (July 1) at the newly reopened Unity theatre. With music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz (Godspell, Wicked), the musical tells the story of the titular Pippin, heir to Charlemagne’s throne, who is searching for […]

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  June 25, 2017 / 1 Comment

  Alice show comes to Hope Street for Fringe

  The debut show from Manchester company Carnival of Eternal Light comes to Frederik’s Bar on Hope Street this week, as part of the Liverpool Fringe Festival. They describe themselves as a “multi-arts production company creating vibrant productions using theatre, circus and dance.” Their show The Looking Glass is a family-friendly, interactive, “quirky retelling” of the […]

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  June 18, 2017 / 0 Comments

  Liverpool Fringe Festival gets underway

  As the glorious, large-scale Sgt Pepper at 50 arts festival comes to a close, another new fest for Liverpool begins – much smaller in stature, to be sure, but equally as intriguing. Liverpool Fringe Festival is bringing together independent theatre, comedy and music at venues in and around the Hope Street area from now until […]

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  June 10, 2017 / 0 Comments

  Hidden Mother returns to Liverpool

  Marking the centenary of the Russian Revolution, award-winning The Off-Off-Off-Broadway Company bring their political comedy-drama Hidden Mother to back to Liverpool next week, having debuted in the city at the Shiny New Festival last year. In her mind Diana is a glamorous singer-raconteuse in Petrograd, and Leon her accompanist. In reality, the pair are patients […]

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  June 4, 2017 / 0 Comments

  Edge Hill Uni hosts Festival of Ideas 

  Edge Hill University’s second annual Festival of Ideas returns this month, exploring a theme of ‘Identity and Belonging’ through its programme of debates, talks, films, exhibitions, round-tables and performances. Highlights include a poetry evening with Roger McGough soundtracked live by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra’s Ensemble 10/10,   The Festival of Ideas draws on academic […]

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  May 29, 2017 / 1 Comment

  Pepperland and Sgt Pepper at 50

  Once there was a way… that a city would celebrate its most famous sons by way of a day of indoctrinated cheap mop top wig-wearing, or a street festival so drunken and rowdy it eventually had to be banned. And as the Mathew St Festival went on to become LIMF, so Sgt Pepper at 50, […]

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  May 24, 2017 / 0 Comments

  Physical Fest 2017 to begin

  This year’s Physical Fest starts this week, with a last-minute move to two new venues.  The reopening of festival partner the Unity Theatre – where the majority of fest performances usually take place – has been set back while its refurb continues, so Physical Fest 2017 will move to City of Liverpool College – The […]

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  May 11, 2017 / 1 Comment

  Physical Fest dance theatre show at IWF

  “A glittering tale of love, failure and illusion” is heading to the Invisible Wind Factory as part of Physical Fest. The Band is a new production by Levantes Dance Theatre, a tragi-comic story of faded pop duo Sandy and Bruno – a couple united by desperate ambition and blind affection.  Artistic director Eleni Edipidi collaborates […]

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  May 8, 2017 / 0 Comments

  Liverpool schoolboy to be Empire’s Billy Elliot

  Billy Elliot the Musical opens at the Liverpool Empire this week – with a local lad in the starring role.  Fourteen-year-old Adam Abbou is one of four boys playing Billy on the show’s national tour.  Adam trains at Dance Dynamix in Old Swan.  He has competed in various regional and national dance championships, and is […]

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  May 6, 2017 / 0 Comments

  New Lizzie Nunnery play opens at the Everyman 

  New writing is in the spotlight with the Everyman Company’s penultimate production of the season, which opens tonight (Saturday May 6).  Liverpool playwright Lizzie Nunnery’s latest work The Sum reflects the aspirations and concerns of families in the city. Described as “a powerful play with songs”, the company says the piece is about “finding the […]

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  May 1, 2017 / 0 Comments

  “Vivian Stanshall was a genius. People need to understand that.”

  The stage adaptation of Sir Henry at Rawlinson End, a spoken word performance with live music bringing the work of Vivian Stanshall – the late Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band member and all-round English eccentric – to life, will play its last show this week, with a farewell gig at Runcorn’s Brindley Theatre. The show was […]

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  April 18, 2017 / 0 Comments

  Shakespeare first for Epstein

  Next week sees the Epstein Theatre stage its first Shakespeare production, an “immersive” version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Actor and director Danny Taylor (pictured above) has worked prolifically across the city in the last couple of years, taking the titular leads in popular touring productions The Tommy Cooper Show and Lennon Through a Glass […]

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