Thursday, January 4, 2018
Here we are again at the end of another year; so without further ado, here’s a bit of a list – the best theatre and performance from Liverpool (and surrounds) of 2017.
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The Unity’s Christmas show occupies a much-needed niche by virtue of it offering an affordable family show that is a panto-free zone.
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMWednesday, November 8, 2017
Joanne Tremarco begins in the audience, asking questions and hearing people’s stories about near-death experience, or how they would like to die. Immediately, she has tapped into something.
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 02:00PMThursday, November 2, 2017
It’s nearly November, which means Homotopia is here – and for the first time, the LGBT+ arts festival is bringing a RuPaul’s Drag Race winner to Liverpool.
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMSaturday, October 7, 2017
“My new show is about living with my emotionally abusive grandfather and the therapy I underwent because of it,” says Sofie Hagen. “It’s still stand up – there are plenty of jokes …
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMFriday, October 6, 2017
The Tin Drum is an assault on the senses, a wild, unrelenting ride that jolts its audience out of any complacency and dazzles bright.
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMSaturday, September 23, 2017
If a creepy sense of deja vu has descended on you, dear reader, fear not; this is indeed the second review of this show, at this venue, on this site.
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMThursday, September 14, 2017
The Looking Glass is the new, interactive, family-friendly show by Manchester-based theatre company Carnival of Eternal Light, inspired by the well-known and well-loved works of Lewis Carrol…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 02:00PMSaturday, September 9, 2017
Season six winner Bianca can fill theatres all over the world with her one-woman shows, she made her own movie Hurricane Bianca, and famous fans include Graham Norton and the late Joan River…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMSunday, September 3, 2017
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 land…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMTuesday, August 29, 2017
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 Nation…
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Gypsy Queen achieves a lot in a single act. At the heart of this 70-minute boxing drama is an unexpectedly sweet gay love story, and a relationship shaped both by the macho world of sport an…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 02:00PMThursday, July 13, 2017
Naughty Corner Productions formed in Edge Hill University in 2013 and are taking not one, but three shows to the Edinburgh Fringe this summer – but not before a preview run at the Unity ne…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSunday, July 9, 2017
Jamie Wood’s latest work, I am a Tree, closed this year’s Physical Fest with a sold-out performance at the City of Liverpool College’s Arts Centre, where the festival was forced to rel…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMFriday, June 23, 2017
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 Playhous…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMFriday, May 19, 2017
Notably more settled into its new home of the Invisible Wind Factory than last year, the event is presented in two-hour long episodes and action is (kind of) recapped at the top of each one,…
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GP Margaret (Denise Kennedy) keeps her patients at arms’ length, not only simply to get through each day’s crippling workload, but also to avoid confronting her personal problems. Nichol…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMWednesday, April 26, 2017
As the Everyman’s company season continues, The Story Giant takes to the stage. An adaptation of a tale by Mersey Poet Brian Patten, it brings together a wealth of the theatre’s backstag…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMWednesday, March 15, 2017
Committed, Stephen Smith’s bleak tale of a fractured community in 90s Belfast was first performed as part of Liverpool Irish Festival a few years ago in 2014.
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMFriday, February 24, 2017
Tradition is indeed the main theme of this classic musical – not the usual fodder for this particular Liverpool stage, you will agree; the tale of Tevye, the turn-of the century Russian pe…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMTuesday, February 21, 2017
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.
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMSunday, February 12, 2017
It was another musical theatre coup at Edge Hill this week, as Preston-born West End star Julie Atherton took to the Arts Centre stage, for a fun and enjoyable one-night event.
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Karimloo, a Phantom and Les Mis heavyweight, happily shrugged off the ostentation of the musical theatre world to present his stripped-down take on the songs he loves, re-arranging them with…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMThursday, January 12, 2017
A lovely good news story for the start of the year comes from Liverpool actor Lewis Bray, who set up a modest crowdfunding campaign to raise the last bit of cash to take his one-man show on …
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMWednesday, January 4, 2017
Michael Wynne’s The Star is a celebratory theatrical knees-up, drawing on the old-style variety show format with a behind-the-scenes drama and broad social commentary that makes for a fun,…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMSaturday, December 31, 2016
Two fantastic things to happen this year included making it on to Radio 4’s Front Row programme to review the Everyman’s The Massive Tragedy of Madame Bovary! (which was so deliciously c…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMFriday, December 9, 2016
Liverpool-based young people’s theatre company 20 Stories High announced their first patron this week – the poet, author and theatre maker Lemn Sissay. The company say they have been tal…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 12:30PMMonday, December 5, 2016
Away from the glitz and the camp and the general hyperactivity of panto, the Unity offers an alternative, gentle style of festive storytelling that has really carved its own niche. In recent…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 10:30AMThursday, November 17, 2016
“The people of Liverpool, and the Liverpool People’s Party, invite the Prime Minister to mind his own business. Here in Liverpool, we’re nearer to space than we are to London. London i…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMTuesday, November 15, 2016
Ever wondered what really happens behind the sequins and smiles on TV dance spectaculars? Strictly Sickly, which comes to Liverpool's Capstone Theatre this week, brings to life the rumbas an…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMMonday, November 14, 2016
Owing as much to RuPaul’s Drag Race as it does to Coronation Street, The Ruby Slippers is a new show about love, identity and following your dreams, with a true northern warmth and a big g…
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