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Liverpool Royal Court
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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 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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March 5, 2018 / 0 Comments
Royal Court launches Liverpool theatre company for BAME talent
Exciting news for the diversity of Liverpool’s theatre scene here – a brand new theatre company dedicated to producing, developing and nurturing existing and new talent from Liverpool’s BAME (black, Asian and minority ethnic) communities is launching next month. Boisterous will be run by Miriam Mussa and writer Maurice Bessman under the umbrella of Liverpool’s […]
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August 31, 2017 / 0 Comments
REVIEW: The Royal, Liverpool Royal Court
There are lots of very good things about The Royal, which has been a huge word-of-mouth success for the Royal Court. Returning to the theatre after its premiere run last year, the madcap Scouse play tells the story of a bunch of misfits trapped in the Royal Liverpool Hospital as the old building – a […]
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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 22, 2016 / 0 Comments
Mod Musical is dream come true for LIPA producer
Up-and-coming theatre producer Max Emmerson has come a long way since graduating from LIPA last year – and his biggest show to date has just opened at Liverpool Royal Court. His revival of Shout! The Mod Musical began life as part of his degree course, and was so successful it had two stints at the […]
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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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April 5, 2016 / 0 Comments
REVIEW: Down the Dock Road, Liverpool Royal Court
Down the Dock Road is a revival of an early Alan Bleasdale, dusted out of the vaults to mark its 40th anniversary. Where does the time go? Premiered in the Playhouse Studio back in the day, Bleasdale of course went on to be one of Liverpool’s – and the UK’s – leading dramatists, famous for […]
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February 23, 2016 / 0 Comments
Top comedy playwriting competition returns
Aspiring and established playwrights can now enter their comedy scripts for the second Liverpool Hope Playwriting Prize. One comedy writer could walk away with £10,000 and the opportunity to have their play considered for production by Liverpool’s Royal Court theatre, while up to two Highly Commended awards of £1,500 are also on offer. Writers have […]
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October 10, 2014 / 0 Comments
REVIEW: Liverpool Comedy Festival, downstairs at the Royal Court
C’est ce n’est pas un review, or something. Not this bit, anyway. Here’s the thing: I go to see Robin Ince pretty much whenever he’s in town, a couple of times a year, maybe. So he’s seldom reviewed here unless there’s some kind of USP. He appeared in Liverpool again last week, as part of […]
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April 13, 2014 / 0 Comments
REVIEW: Special Measures, Liverpool Royal Court
Mark Davies Markham is the writer behind the Everyman’s 2008 theatrical tribute to Eric’s and the 80s musical Taboo. His new play Special Measures is bang up to date – even Maria Miller gets to be the butt of a joke – but those early influences could be said to loom, from the Teardrop Explodes […]
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January 16, 2013 / 0 Comments
Hope springs for the Royal Court: Samantha Womack to star
The big news of the day has been the announcement former EastEnder Samantha Womack will be coming to the Royal Court stage in March, in the title role of Scot Williams’s new play Hope. Writer and star Williams had been teasing his Twitter followers in the run up to the big reveal, which unites the […]
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