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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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  May 8, 2016 / 0 Comments

  Everyman’s Everyword new writing festival returns this week

  Everyword, the Everyman’s festival of new plays and new theatre-making, stories, experiments and new ideas will spring to life this week – from Wednesday (May 11) to Saturday (May 14). With the theme of Stories from the City, it promises to “tell tales from the beating heart of the city to the gleaming horizon”. New […]

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  March 8, 2016 / 0 Comments

  Impropriety – winning awards and hosting first ever schools contest

  Congrats to the ladies of Impropriety – company manager Angie Waller and artistic director Rosie Wilkinson – who scooped the ‘best social enterprise’ trophy at last week’s Women in Business awards. Not only that, but this week they launch a brand new community improv event to showcase their winning ways. Very sadly, following on from […]

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  March 6, 2016 / 0 Comments

  ‘Pay what you want’ family show at the Unity

  Acclaimed theatre company The Wrong Crowd comes to Liverpool next week with Kite, a new family show for audiences of seven and older about grief, family and imagination. And instead of the usual tickets prices, all Liverpool performances will be ‘pay what you want’. Inspired by the world of indoor-kite flying and stories such as […]

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  January 24, 2016 / 0 Comments

  On blogging, theatre reviewing and motherhood

  It’s been interesting to follow writers over the last year debating how to continue enjoying a cultural life – nay, career – once you’ve had a baby. Lyn Gardner has been debating the issue in the Guardian just this week. With a tiny human in tow there’s obvious dilemmas for theatremakers and performers, but also […]

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  December 2, 2015 / 0 Comments

  Flamenco performance of classic Carmen

  It’s better known as an opera, but this weekend a Liverpool flamenco group will be using the medium of dance to tell the classic tale of Carmen. Andalus Company, is a collective of  dancers, singers and musicians and flamenco students. They say: “Alandalus Dance Company is a young group bringing Spanish traditional dance to the […]

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  November 25, 2015 / 0 Comments

  REVIEW: Panti Bliss, Epstein Theatre

  There’s a new woman in my life, and her name is Panti Bliss. Her latest show High Heels in Low Places is far from the veteran drag queen’s first, but proves an unforgettable introduction to her Liverpool audience; a city she had never appeared in before this weekend. Thank you, Homotopia. Panti – and/ or […]

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  March 2, 2014 / 0 Comments

  Everyman housewarming

  Today the new Everyman opened its doors to allow the public a look inside its new building for the first time. MADEUP joined the crowds for a tour, a few screams of joy, and a pint of Liverpool Organic Brewery’s Everyman’s Ale. Here’s some pics:

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  November 7, 2013 / 0 Comments

  Russell Brand’s third Liverpool date

  Russell Brand has been making headlines for quite some time, but this shit’s getting ridiculous: ‘Russell Brand: Mad, bad, and dangerous for democracy?’ Russell Brand tells Robert Webb ‘I’m not in favour of death camps’ ‘Russell shouldn’t give anymore handjobs in bathrooms because he’s got a new lady’ However, everyone from the Mail Online to […]

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  November 1, 2013 / 0 Comments

  Homotopia 10 top ten

  Homotopia launched and celebrated its 10th anniversary this week in a flurry of unicorns, glitter, beautiful people and Boy George. With another incredible programme about to begin, the fest welcomes back some old friends from near and far, as well as the usual raft of new commissions. The LGBT event crosses all media to take […]

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  October 11, 2013 / 1 Comment

  You’re just the same as everyone else, & us

  This week I was invited to catch a preview performance of new promenade piece You’re Just the Same as Everyone Else, & Us. A debut from all-female Liverpool-based theatre company Petrichor, the work took us around the city’s business district and to the Pier Head, with the aim of ‘showing the stories that have slipped […]

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  October 10, 2013 / 0 Comments

  Joan Rivers’s last ever last ever tour

  Or possibly not. We loves our Joanie, and frankly, she can keep coming back to Liverpool all she wants. But her new dates – penciled in for NEXT October (2014) – are billed as a ‘last chance to see’ for at least the third time in the city in recent years. You’ll find the grande […]

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  September 19, 2013 / 0 Comments

  (Russell) Brand new date

  Love him or hate him? The jury’s back in and Liverpool has gone for the former, as Russell Brand has announced a second date of his upcoming Messiah Complex world tour in the city.   It won’t follow on directly from his scheduled show on December 12, but will see him returning in the new […]

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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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  October 14, 2012 / 0 Comments

  The Static comes to the Unity

  ThickSkin theatre comes to the Unity later this month with new play The Static. The show, which impressed the critics during its world premiere run at the 2012 Edinburgh Fringe, is described as “a kinetic coming-of age story about desire, guilt an…

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  September 18, 2012 / 0 Comments

  Jack Ryan comes to Liverpool

  As the last post illustrated, on-the-spot action shots aren’t really the forte of this blog. However! That didn’t stop me accidentally wandering right onto the set of the new Jack Ryan film last night for a nose. Water Street, Castle Street and th…

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  September 1, 2012 / 0 Comments

  REVIEW: Laurence Clark, Unity Theatre Liverpool

  Inspired is Liverpool comic Laurence Clark???s second homecoming show of the year. Playing to a packed out Unity theatre last night, he presented his latest show Inspired, funded by London 2012. This didn???t affect the show???s content, in which Clark,…

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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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