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  July 25, 2012 / 2 Comments

  REVIEW: The Last 5 Years, Liverpool Actors’ Studio

  It???s an odd thing, but actually not unusual that on the hottest, most sweltering days you can wind up watching a show with wintery or Christmassy scenes, and The Last 5 Years has a few of those. In this case, in a venue so tiny you can see every b…

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  May 10, 2012 / 0 Comments

  Avenue Q puppets stop by the Liverpool Empire

  The cast — and puppets — of hit musical Avenue Q dropped by the Empire this afternoon. The national tour is currently playing at the Lowry in Manchester, so puppeteers including Gabrielle Broomes (far right, with yellow Bad Idea Bear), who has p…

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  May 7, 2012 / 0 Comments

  Skates on for Starlight Express

  The cast of high speed musical Starlight Express will be putting on their skates and racing to Liverpool Empire Theatre this July as a part of an all new national tour. It???s fair enough to say Starlight is one of the most unique musical experien…

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  January 19, 2012 / 0 Comments

  WKLOS goes from Handel to Hammerstein

  West Kirby Light Operatic Society will present their Liverpool concert debut in March, with what they rather charmingly call “a sparkling cocktail of musical favourites” titled From Handel to Hammerstein. The chorus say they are set to woo audienc…

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  October 11, 2011 / 0 Comments

  Susan Boyle musical to star Susan Boyle

  MADEUP loves a bit of Empire campery to liven up a dreary afternoon, and today they once again delivered the goods, cheerfully announcing the pending arrival of international singing sensation Susan Boyle to the theatre. Quite like some kind of bi…

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  September 15, 2011 / 0 Comments

  Review: The Last 5 Years, The Kazimier

  Semi-professional musical theatre company What We Did Next are getting better with each production. Megan Key finds their latest show as ambitious and moving as ever…. The Last 5 Years is a challenging production. Not due to any particular set o…

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  September 11, 2011 / 0 Comments

  The Last 5 Years: new production from What We Did Next

  Musical drama The Last 5 Years is the latest offering from Liverpool theatre group What We Did Next, who will be staging the play at the Kazimier this week to launch their autumn season. Written by award winning composer Jason Robert Brown, the on…

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  May 17, 2011 / 0 Comments

  Review: Jekyll & Hyde, Empire

  Henry Jekyll is the compassionate doctor who thinks he???s discovered the formula to eradicate evil from humankind; Edward Hyde the monster he becomes. This latest Kenwright production of the classic Robert Louis Stevenson tale is high on melodrama …

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  February 3, 2011 / 0 Comments

  Review: Spring Awakening, Unity Theatre

  Spring Awakening is the show best known for its Broadway success, its West End failure, and for springboarding the international career of the girl better known as Rachel-off-of-Glee. An amateur production on Liverpool???s smallest established stage…

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