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...
David Morrissey's Macbeth was one of the theatre events of the year and the last production at the Everyman theatre before its closure (and how time flies -- there is now a hole in the street where the venue once stood). From today, a film of the ...
The Playhouse???s Gemma Bodinetz and A Streetcar Named Desire -- should have seen this one coming! The Tennessee Williams classic has been unveiled as one of the highlights of the theatre???s spring season with its artistic director at the helm, and c...
It???s only been a year since Calendar Girls took to the Empire stage, but last night???s full house showed the appetite for the production was certainly still there. The well-worn tale of the WI group who bare all for the annual charity calendar is f...
Merseyside Dance Initiative hosts a screening, talk and question and answer session with director Alex Ruben tomorrow (Monday, November 21). His film NEWSREEL 1 is described as " a poetic recording of social, cultural and political events from the...
Back in September, The Kazimier, better known as a venue in its own right, took things off site for a remarkable addition to the AND Festival programme. Atalonia, billed as a tour of a world below the earth's crust, was set up in a disused space a...
It just doesn't feel like November without DaDaFest. Over the years, its promise of original, thought-provoking art and performance as well as the regular-as-clockwork exposure of Mat Fraser???s bits, have become one of the highlights of Liverpool???s...
This is a really interesting idea -- community theatre company Grin Productions is furthering its dedication to new writing with its ambitious new plan to stage five brand new plays all written, rehearsed and performed within 24 hours. Playwrights...
Club Geek Chic, most excellently described as "the night out for Liverpool???s discerning socialites", returns this weekend after a break of nearly two years, with what organisers are calling a "1980s themed extravaganza!" Gemma Aldcroft and Karen...
Despite the best efforts of all involved, watching Grease on stage doesn???t really equate to a trip to the theatre as much as being forced to attend some kind of money-spinning Christmas party tribute night with all the people from work you can't s...
One of the West End???s biggest hits of recent years, Tony Award-winning musical comedy Avenue Q is coming to Liverpool after nearly five years of mischief, bad behaviour and political incorrectness in the West End. In collaboration with Cameron Mac...
Tomorrow night (Monday) sees a special screening of the film Backbeat, as part of the successful Clapperboard Presents??? fundraisers. After the film ??? the 1994 dramatisation of the life of ???fifth Beatle??? Stuart Sutcliffe ??? one of its star...
That Ray Quinn's a nice sort, so did his bit for the Empire this week, where he is currently performing, by helping to launch a new theatre membership scheme. Quinn, currently starring as Danny in Grease, unveiled the brand new ATG Theatre Card ??...
The long-awaited new production of Ealing comedy The Ladykillers is finally open for business, with a celebratory press night taking place last night that showed how the production had brought out the best in all involved. It's not as if the crew ...
In the immortal words of Rolf Harris, can you guess what it is yet? Eh? EH?! Presumably the juxtaposition of a clock and some oranges in the picture above will have made it clear enough that a new production of A Clockwork Orange is coming our way...
Choreographer Joseph Mercier always makes an impression when he shows up at Homotopia. Last year???s show, Giselle (or I???m Too Horny to be a Prince) saw the Canadian take to the Unity stage without a stitch on in a work described as "an intimate aut...
The Royal Court's Christmas shows. Made Up bleddy loves 'em. And this year, the venue has already announced an extension to its run. Good to hear it! The venue says it's "delighted" to announce a two week extension to Little Scouse On The Prairie ...
???Well, it???s very professional, isn???t it,??? an elderly male voice behind us said to his companion, in a loud, flat voice at a quiet moment. My sister and I suppressed more than a giggle. It was exactly the sort of thing our granddad would say if he'...
Mitch Benn is one of the UK???s foremost musical comedians. Liverpool born and bred, he returns to the city for a rare theatre show with his band The Distractions on November 15. ???Kind of a rock concert but funny??? is the simplest way for Benn to exp...
This winter Action Transport Theatre will present 12 Miles From Nowhere, a new play inspired by the lives, ideas, stories and dreams of people who live in rural communities across the North West. The production makes the rolling countryside the ba...
