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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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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 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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April 10, 2018 / 0 Comments
Hamlet takes Off the Ground in new adaptation
“FROM metaphors to mobile phones, from cowardice to cameras, from Swedish House Mafia to Shakespeare, this is an in-your-face production of a true classic that you won’t want to miss” – so say Off the Ground youth theatre of their new adaptation of Hamlet, being staged in Liverpool this week. The company, best known for […]
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November 23, 2017 / 0 Comments
Beauty & the Beast the Black-E
Panto season is nearly upon us, and for something a little different this year, Beauty & the Beast will be the debut production from new theatre company Drops of Light CIC, who are busy transforming the city centre’s Black-E in to an enchanted castle for the venue’s first ever pantomime. They say audiences can expect […]
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September 7, 2017 / 0 Comments
Blame it on Bianca del Rio
The RuPaul’s Drag Race winner charmed Liverpool with her first city appearance An extra earner on a night off from the larger Comedy Queens tour, Bianca del Rio stopped by Liverpool gay bar Heaven last night for a quick club appearance courtesy of the first promoters to finally start bringing Drag Race contestants to the […]
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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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July 4, 2017 / 0 Comments
REVIEW: Pippin, Unity Theatre
Whether the company knows it or not, What We Did Next has a bit of a feel for being ahead of the curve. Their latest production Pippin is also being revived later this summer at the so-hot-right-now Hope Mill Theatre in Manchester – but obviously, WWDN got there first. They’ve also brought shows like Rent […]
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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 22, 2017 / 0 Comments
REVIEW: Cartoonopolis, Liverpool Unity Theatre
Cartoonopolis was first performed in the Playhouse Studio a couple of years ago, where it came into existence thanks to actor Lewis Bray’s involvement with YEP [Young Everyman and Playhouse]. Along with Matt Rutter and Chris Tomlinson, that company’s artistic director and associate director respectively, Bray’s fledgling idea – to do a play about his […]
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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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February 19, 2017 / 0 Comments
25 years of Liverpool dance festival LEAP
LEAP – Liverpool’s only annual festival of contemporary dance – shines a light on the city’s ‘invisible art form’ as part of its 25th anniversary celebrations this year. The festival, run by Hope Street-based dance organisation MDI (Merseyside Dance Initiative), begins a programme it describes as its “most bold and ambitious to date” from March […]
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January 30, 2017 / 0 Comments
Unity Theatre now officially ‘Out of Space’!
Times are changing at the Unity, which has closed its doors to the public while undergoing a radical overhaul. But the show, as they say, goes on, and the theatre will be taking its spring programme to venues around Merseyside for what they are calling their ‘Out of Space’ season. After an initial setback – […]
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October 3, 2016 / 0 Comments
The Secret Life of Mia
The Secret Life of Mia is a promenade performance aiming to its audience on an intimate journey into the secret world of women starving for beauty. Created by Liverpool-based performer Amandine Vincent, The Secret Life of Mia will be performed in Liverpool city centre and St Helens throughout October, with audiences of no more than […]
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August 26, 2016 / 0 Comments
Great Expectations at St George’s Hall
A new version of the Dickens classic Great Expectations is taking place in the grand surrounds of St George’s Hall this bank holiday weekend. The show is the brainchild of city playwright Ian Carroll, who says: “I wanted to do another period piece and I found a copy of Great Expectations in my wife’s bookcase. […]
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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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June 18, 2016 / 0 Comments
REVIEW: Improvathon 2016 – When in Rome
It was all change for the Improvathon this year – a new venue, a new time of year. This meant that many things had been caught off-kilter, and this was interesting as an audience member and critic, as a reminder that it’s not always about us, and that’s not always a bad thing. The Improvathon, […]
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June 14, 2016 / 0 Comments
Tenor Stefan Pop heading to Liverpool
Celebrated Romanian tenor Stefan Pop will sing in his first ever Liverpool concert next week. Pop, winner of many high-profile singing competitions including the Seoul International Music Competition and Plácido Domingo’s Operalia for young up-and-coming artists, will perform a recital in the Concert Room at St George’s Hall on June 25 as part of The […]
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June 10, 2016 / 0 Comments
Ten reasons to see the Improvathon (2016 style)
It’s Improvathon weekend! Yes, yes, yes, we’re talking 33 hour and 36 minutes (2016 minutes in all, geddit) of all the super-duper made up theatrical goodness you might ever need – in a brand new home and with a cast of…. well, we don’t know yet. We’ll have to see. But here’s ten reasons (mainly […]
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May 28, 2016 / 0 Comments
Review: You Kissed Me, Physical Fest
A special site-specific performance as part of Physical Fest (which has seemingly enjoyed something of a bumper, and very diverse, year of programming in 2016), You Kissed Me was a challenging, beautiful one-woman show that may have only played to a handful of people over several performances, yet will undoubtedly have provided an experience not […]
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