Sunday, 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…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMThursday, August 3, 2017
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…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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,…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMWednesday, May 17, 2017
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…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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.
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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.
SOURCE: 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.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMSunday, January 22, 2017
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…
SOURCE: 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 …
SOURCE: 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,…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:30AMTuesday, November 8, 2016
At the End of Everything Else is the company’s second show, a follow on from its debut Something Very Far Away. It’s ‘carbon friendly’, which means most of the electricity required i…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:04PMThursday, November 3, 2016
“The play explores issues of identity and prejudice in the LGBT community – with outrageous drag queens, of course,” explains one of The Ruby Slippers' writers and stars, Emma Culshaw.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:45PMTuesday, November 1, 2016
Natalie Casey made her name on TV shows including teen soap Hollyoaks and sitcom Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps, but on stage is where you’re more likely to find her these d…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:30AMMonday, October 31, 2016
From rags to riches, from Liverpool to London, from Nabzys to Nandos… The Rise and Fall of The Hamburger Queen is a one-woman comedy show on at The Unity Theatre as part of Homotopia Festi…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:40AMSunday, October 23, 2016
Nina - A Story About Me and Nina Simone, running at Liverpool's Unity Theatre until 29 October 2016, is without doubt a tale that needs to be told and deserves to be heard. Performer Josette…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:22PMThursday, October 20, 2016
Happy Hour is the seventh show from Liverpool-based physical theatre company Tmesis, and continues in the vein of 2015’s That’s Amore – four performers on a wry, sideways rollercoaster…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:15AMWednesday, October 19, 2016
Liverpool theatre group What We Did Next return next week with the North West premiere of the off-Broadway musical Three Sides. Written by Grant Olding – the composer of smash hit One Man,…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:44AMTuesday, October 11, 2016
In an era of political disillusionment and generational divides, has politics forgotten the people it represents? And, what price do we put on knowledge?
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:20AMWednesday, October 5, 2016
Well then – clowning, bouffon and dark comedy are all in the mix in Cabaret From The Shadows, an intriguing new performance in the intriguing new performance space of the Invisible Wind Fa…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:20AM 
