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Lantern Theatre Liverpool
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September 4, 2016 / 0 Comments
Lantern Theatre lives on with Unity season
The Lantern Theatre on Blundell Street closed its doors for the last time in July, but we knew it wasn’t the last we were going to see of them. Although a new premises has not yet been found for the much-loved fringe venue, they’re moving into their next phase in style, with a season of […]
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July 3, 2016 / 0 Comments
Lantern Theatre’s final Shiny New Festival
This month sees the fifth Shiny New Festival at the Lantern Theatre – and the last at the venue we know and love. It will be the theatre’s final in-house production at their Blundell Street home, and as such it will run for an extended length of ten days from July 15 to 24, due […]
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May 25, 2016 / 0 Comments
New play Bread and Circuses at the Lantern
Bread and Circuses, a new play by Merseyside writer Mari Lloyd, will premiere at The Lantern Theatre early next month, to coincide with the Queen’s official birthday. Set in 2012, it’s a play that looks behind the flag waving of public celebration to reveal “a world where there may be circuses, but the bread is definitely […]
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May 3, 2016 / 0 Comments
Liverpool theatre: All change
Ambitious plans are afoot at practically all of Liverpool’s traditional theatre-making spaces this year – and they could have quite an impact all round. A slew of recent announcements have revealed plans that will change the theatre landscape considerably; what a strange coincidence things all seem to be happening at the same time. The shocker, […]
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July 7, 2015 / 0 Comments
Boom Boom’s Brakin’ Pad
Local company Boom Boom Productions, whose previous works include If the Shoe Fits and Bon Voyage, are back with their latest comedy show. Brakin’ Pad comes to the Lantern next week, and is described as an evening of “fun and mayhem”. Written by local actress Donna Lesley Price and directed by Richie Grice, Boom […]
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June 29, 2015 / 0 Comments
Get ready for the fourth annual Shiny New Festival
Lantern Theatre Liverpool is playing host to its annual pre-Edinburgh theatre event Shiny New Festival for the fourth year this July – and is also teaming up with Manchester’s 24:7 new writing fest. From July 27 to August 2, audiences will be treated to three shows per night from some of the North West’s […]
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December 31, 2014 / 1 Comment
MADEUP’s best of 2014
It’s the last day of the year, so here it is: MADEUP’s best of 2014, a top ten of some of the most memorable, touching, fun and impressive shows that graced the stages of the city over the last twelve months. 10. Animal Farm (The Arts Club, October) Community theatre company Tell Tale once again […]
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October 17, 2014 / 0 Comments
Writers on the Brink: It’s Play Time…
Emerging playwrights collective Writers on the Brink will present a rehearsed reading of six short plays at the Lantern Theatre next week. It’s Play Time is a pick-and-mix of new drama, being given a script-in-hand performance by professional actors alongside up-and-coming acting talent. Six budding writers have been working with acclaimed screenwriter Julian Perkins […]
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September 15, 2014 / 0 Comments
REVIEW: Broken Biscuits, Lantern Theatre
Broken Biscuits is the story of two best friends and mothers whose inseparable sons went to war together; but only one returned. Get ready for an emotional ride, and one of the theatrical surprises of this year – this low-key dark horse is one of the finest new dramas I’ve seen in a long time. […]
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August 18, 2014 / 0 Comments
Dark youth drama at the Lantern
Young and Suicidal is a new drama from city writer James Shaw. The thought-provoking new production debuts at the Lantern Theatre from August 26 to 29. After finding his father hanged in the garage, Smith (Barry Mason) becomes infatuated with the idea of following his father’s footsteps and killing himself. Two years later he places an advert […]
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May 12, 2014 / 0 Comments
Last Train to Yuma
It’s a busy week for new plays in Liverpool, and another to add to the list is Last Train to Yuma, opening at the Lantern on Wednesday (May 14). The play tells the story of comedy duo Lemmon and McGarvey – as ten year olds, they won the biggest TV talent show of the day […]
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April 19, 2014 / 0 Comments
REVIEW: Because She Loved the Lion, Lantern Theatre
Protecting the ones that you love and realising they sometimes have to learn the hard way are two of the main themes running throughout Because She Loved the Lion, a new piece from Lady Parts theatre that has just premiered at the Lantern Theatre and will soon travel down to the Brighton Fringe. A concise […]
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March 26, 2014 / 0 Comments
Because She Loved the Lion
Lady Parts Theatre, the fantastically-named company created last year to showcase strong female roles, returns next month with a new drama from city writer Laura-Kate Barrow. Because She Loved the Lion is the story of a family in turmoil – they say: “The story of a mother, her daughter, her sister and a mouse consumed […]
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January 19, 2014 / 0 Comments
Skirmishes at the Lantern
The Lantern Theatre debuts its first ever in-house production this week. Skirmishes, by Liverpool writer Catherine Hayes, was first performed in 1981, and broadcast as part of the ITV Playhouse series on television the following year; Hayes went on to pen episodes of Brookside and Coronation Street. The Lantern has been run by mother and […]
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December 19, 2013 / 0 Comments
Family Christmas show Zagmuth
Liverpool Hope uni graduates Take a Hint Theatre Company are back at Lantern Liverpool this week with a new show they say guarantees festive fun for all ages. Zagmuth tells the tale of a young girl whose Christmas wishes come true when she finds magic in the most extraordinary of places. Inspired by the […]
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December 16, 2013 / 0 Comments
New Tommy Cooper show at the Lantern
This week sees the premiere of a brand new festive show about one of the UK’s comedy greats. The Tommy Cooper Christmas Special, by local playwright Ian Carroll, is on at the Lantern theatre from today (Monday) until Saturday, December 21, and stars Danny Taylor as Tommy, Sharon Byatt as Gwen Cooper, and Warwick Evans […]
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December 3, 2013 / 0 Comments
The Rise and Fall of the Hamburger Queen
Liverpool-born actress Ashleigh Owen returns to her home town this weekend with her intriguing one-woman show, The Rise and Fall of the Hamburger Queen (or, A Fat Girl’s History of Dance). Inspired by her own personal success as the current holder of the title of Hamburger Queen, the show takes on a “parody-come-autobiographic representation of […]
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November 13, 2013 / 0 Comments
In Doggerland
The acclaimed latest production from Box of Tricks theatre In Doggerland tells the funny and heartfelt story of four people struggling to move forward under the weight of past trauma. The play explores the themes of organ donation and transplantation, loss and grief, family and home, and what makes up the essence of an individual. […]
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September 11, 2013 / 0 Comments
Waiting for Godot at the Lantern
Samuel Beckett’s classic Waiting for Godot is 60 this year. The absurdist play, once voted the most significant of the 20th century, is being revived by a brand new theatre company at the Lantern on October 3 and 4. “The themes of Waiting for Godot are as relevant today as they were then, or perhaps […]
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August 26, 2013 / 0 Comments
Married in Black: Oral history project seeks tales
A new inner city history project is looking for Liverpool women to share their stories of mixed race relationships. Nwoko Theatre would like specifically like to speak to women who lived in Toxteth in the 1970s and 1980s for Married in Black, an oral history project charting the stories of local women. Using verbatim […]
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