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November 30, 2012 / 0 Comments
PurpleCoat’s Little Voice
It’s been a busy year for Liverpool based PurpleCoat Productions, following on from their collaboration with the Royal Shakespeare Company at the CUC last year. Their production of Titus Andronicus prompted none other than Stephen Fry to donate to…
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November 18, 2012 / 0 Comments
Spike Theatre’s Christmas Carol
Our friends at Spike Theatre will be giving their trademark puppetry and dark fairy tale stylings the festive treatment this year with a production of Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, talking place at the Lantern Theatre from December 1 to 10. The wor…
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October 28, 2012 / 2 Comments
Thomas Hardy’s A Pair of Blue Eyes
A new dramatisation of Thomas Hardy’s novel A Pair of Blue Eyes is coming to the Lantern Theatre on Saturday, November 10. As the jpegs sent over were too small, I took the brave and entirely selfless editorial decision to illustrate this story wi…
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October 23, 2012 / 0 Comments
One year of the new Lantern
It???s been a year since the Lantern Theatre was taken over by new owners, and the tiny venue is now ready to realise some big plans. MADEUP talks to its artistic director. When one door closes another opens, and that was certainly the case last Oct…
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September 21, 2012 / 0 Comments
Silky headlines new comedy night at the Lantern
The Lantern Theatre is to turn its hand to comedy with a night of stand up next month. On Sunday, October 7, our pal Silky will be returning to Liverpool to headline A Rush of Laughter. Joined by Scott Bennett, whose accolades include being named …
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August 21, 2012 / 0 Comments
New adaptation of stage and screen classic 12 Angry Men
New play 12, an adaptation of the Reginald Rose classic 12 Angry Men, premieres at the Lantern Theatre this week. Walton-based playwright Shaun Fagan, who also stars as the foreman of the jury in 12, is a member of YEP, the Everyman and Playhouse …
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August 10, 2012 / 0 Comments
Disturbing new play Happy previews at the Lantern
It isn???t every day a theatre company promises an experience that will leave audience members unsure whether to laugh, cry or be sick, but that is the intent of Municipal Theatre London, which is previewing a new work in Liverpool next week before …
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July 28, 2012 / 0 Comments
REVIEW: Queertet 2012, Lantern Theatre
Queertet is the first theatre offering as part of the programme of Liverpool Pride, a great idea that highlights some real grass-roots talent to boot. But despite the Nautical but Nice theme of this year???s festival, it wasn???t all plain sailing for…
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July 6, 2012 / 0 Comments
Queertet 2012 — theatre with Pride!
Liverpool Pride launched in style last night with a booze cruise across the Mersey ??? a rather snazzy first for the annual LGBT event. And here???s another — Queertet 2012, four short, original LGBT themed plays by local writers produced especia…
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June 27, 2012 / 0 Comments
Jollyboat album launch
They kissed a gull and they liked it! They really really really wanna give a big ARRR! Yes, of all the musical pirate comedy acts out there, Jollyboat has to be our very favourite. And they???re back, back, back with a run of Liverpool shows next …
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February 26, 2012 / 0 Comments
Our Country’s Good at the Lantern
Kick Theatre presents a new production of Timberlake Wertenbaker’s Our Country???s Good next month. Directed by Donna Lesley Price, the classic piece is set in Australia in 1789. A young lieutenant is directing rehearsals of the first play ever to b…
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February 12, 2012 / 0 Comments
Threshold Festival at the Lantern Theatre
For those checking out the final day of the Threshold Festival today (Sunday), there is a whole programme of acts on at the Lantern Theatre, headlined later this evening by comedy duo Undercover Blondde (pictured). The pair (double ‘D’, naturally)…
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January 27, 2012 / 0 Comments
Two new plays come to the Lantern
Hope In Boxes and A Light In Every Window are two poignant and intriguing new plays by award-winning writer Nicola Schofield, coming to The Lantern Theatre for one night only following their premiere at The Lowry. Hope In Boxes sees two grandchild…
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December 4, 2011 / 0 Comments
Review: Push/ On the Edge,Lantern Theatre
The final production of the year from city centre theatre group Grin Productions has just enjoyed two successful nights at the Lantern Theatre. The group exists to encourage new writers, performers and directors, so it was good to go along and cat…
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November 25, 2011 / 0 Comments
On the Edge and Push at the Lantern
Grin Productions are heading back to the Lantern Theatre next week (Friday and Saturday December 2 & 3) for their final performances of the year. The first is the premiere of On the Edge, a surreal black comedy from local writer Sam Freeman, descr…
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October 17, 2011 / 0 Comments
Take a trip to Sunny Rhyl
The Lantern Theatre will be whisking us off to warmer climes and more innocent times this weekend, as it presents the touring production of Sunny Rhyl by Dividers Productions. A new play by Paul Kelly and directed by Steve Davies, Sunny Rhyl is se…
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September 27, 2011 / 0 Comments
Close call for Happystorm Theatre
Members of Happystorm Theatre Company thought they were in for the long arm of the law this week after realising they’d parked a van full of violent-looking props in the middle of the Labour Party Conference site. Joint artistic director Matthew G…
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July 27, 2011 / 0 Comments
“Powerhouse drama” at the Lantern
Liverpool-based community theatre group Grin Productions are returning to The Lantern Theatre this week with new play Mexico. Written by resident playwright Wes Williams and directed by John Maguire (Mrs Bojangles, Write Now Festival 2011), Mexico…
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July 8, 2011 / 0 Comments
Review: Dream On, Lantern Theatre
Dream On tells the story of wide-eyed Rochdale lad Paul (Bradley Cross), on holiday at a Welsh campsite with his overbearing mother when he meets wayward Londoner George (Joe Gosling). Mutually intrigued, the spark between them soon turns into som…
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July 5, 2011 / 0 Comments
Theatre for sale
The Lantern Theatre is on the hunt for a new owner. The fringe venue was established on Blundell Street in the Baltic Triangle area in 2009, but now family and other business commitments mean current managers Liam and Clare Keating can no longer c…
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