Theatre in Liverpool
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Theatre in Liverpool
imitating the dog’s Innovative Macbeth Puts Stunning Visuals And Immersive Storytelling Centre Stage
William Shakespeare’s tale of ambition and betrayal, featuring live video feeds, projection mapping and a dynamic soundscape, comes to the Liverpool Playhouse from Tuesday 25 to Saturday 29 April 2023, in a bold new retelling of Macbeth transports audiences to a dystopian future where power and desire collide in a struggle for survival. This pioneering production of Macbeth by imitating the dog follows their thought-provoking and boundary-pushing productions at the Playhouse, including Heart of Darkness, Night of the Living Dead – Remix and Dracula: The…
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Liverpool News
Hit Musical Hamilton Is Coming To Liverpool
The multi-award-winning, smash-hit musical Hamilton is coming to Liverpool in May 2025. Hamilton is a musical about the life of Alexander Hamilton, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. The show is written by Lin-Manuel Miranda and features a score that blends hip-hop, R&B, jazz, and Broadway. Hamilton has been a huge success since it premiered on Broadway in 2015. The show has won 11 Tony Awards, including Best Musical, and has been…
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Theatre in Liverpool
Liverpool Theatre Festival Returns For 2023
Organisers of Liverpool Theatre Festival have revealed plans for this year’s headline and fringe events – with the first six shows going on sale. The fourth annual Liverpool Theatre Festival is back with a new date – this year taking place in Summer 2023. While new works and fringe event Little LTF will go ahead in Autumn 2023. The changes will ensure there is no clash with the city’s Eurovision celebrations. Both events will once again take place at St…
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Theatre in Liverpool
Dr Adam Perchard’s Bathtime For Britain Is An Unmissable Piece of Theatre Coming To The Epstein Theatre In March
Wash away the last of the pandemic blues with a non-stop parade of big hits, belly laughs, and booming vocals from queer cabaret legend Dr Adam Perchard as the world premiere tour of their fabulous new show Dr Adam Perchard’s Bathtime For Britain heads to the Epstein Theatre in Liverpool on Thursday 16 March 2023. Cabaret icon Dr Adam Perchard lost all of their work almost overnight when the pandemic hit. Broken-hearted, they had to leave their wild, hedonistic…
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Theatre in Liverpool
Review: Two of Us At Royal Court Liverpool
The two of you pleased pleased us. It’s 60 years this month since the Beatles started laying down the songs that would launch them on the stratospheric life-long journey of fame and adulation. That first album, Please Please Me, hit number one in the UK three months later and stayed there for 30 weeks. Reviewed at the time as “surprisingly good and up to standard”, Please Please Me stands as an important moment in the band’s…
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Theatre in Liverpool
Don’t Miss ‘Two of Us’ At Liverpool’s Royal Court With The Music of John Lennon and Paul McCartney
Two of Us explores Lennon and McCartney’s partnership from their first meeting as teenagers at Woolton Village fete in 1957 to the break-up of the Beatles 13 years later. Mark Newnham and Tom Connor return to the Royal Court to reprise the roles of John Lennon and Paul McCartney which they first played a decade ago in Bob Eaton’s play-with-music, Lennon. This will be an unforgettable evening from the songbook of Lennon and McCartney in a stunning…
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Theatre in Liverpool
Spring Into 2023 At Liverpool’s Epstein Theatre
Liverpool’s Epstein Theatre is looking forward to a fantastic start to 2023 with the announcement of a busy programme of events for music, theatre and comedy lovers. Epstein Entertainments Ltd is celebrating its first anniversary running the grade II listed city venue by delivering an unmissable range of top-quality entertainment this spring. The season gets underway this Thursday, 26 January with a sold-out show New Purple Celebration: The Music of Prince, a musical extravaganza celebrating…
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Theatre in Liverpool
Future Stars Invited To Experience Life As A Student At Elite Liverpool Theatre School
Talented young performers across Merseyside are being offered the chance to experience a day in the life of a student at Liverpool Theatre School as the centre of excellence announces a series of taster days for those considering a professional career on the stage. Liverpool Theatre School, whose graduates can be seen in smash hit shows such as SIX, Frozen the Musical, Wicked and Blood Brothers, is inviting aspiring performers to enjoy a broad range…
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Theatre in Liverpool
Varna International Ballet And Orchestra Heading To Liverpool Empire Theatre This Month
Raymond Gubbay Limited will present Varna International Ballet and Orchestra visiting the UK for the very first time in their 75-year history with classical performances of THE NUTCRACKER, SWAN LAKE, and GISELLE. Varna Ballet will visit Liverpool Empire Theatre 23-25 January. Renowned for its award-winning soloists and magnificent corps de ballet, the company has been delighting audiences for decades at home in Bulgaria and abroad with its performances of the highest quality. Artistic Director…
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Theatre in Liverpool
One Week To Go Until Liverpool’s Epstein Theatre Will Transform Into The Masquerade Club
A powerful and poignant tale of love, loss, freedom, and friendship among Liverpool’s LGBT+ community opens at the city’s Epstein Theatre next week. The unique immersive show will see the Hanover Street venue transform into the famous Masquerade Club. The electrifying new and reimagined production of Masquerade, written by Laura Lees with additional material by Tom Lloyd and James Baker is set in Liverpool’s iconic gay club in the 1980s and features a heavenly disco soundtrack. The brand-new full-scale version of the play…
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Theatre in Liverpool
Liverpool Theatre School Presents Lord of the Flies With All-Female Cast
Talented students from Liverpool Theatre School are set to take over The Hope Street Theatre this week as an all female cast of Third Year students put on an incredible production of Lord of the Flies from 15-16 November. Based on the classic novel by William Golding, the play tells the story of a group of young boys who find themselves stranded on a desert island following a plane crash. As the boys fall…
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Theatre in Liverpool
Don’t Miss The Scouse Jack And The Beanstalk At The Royal Court This Festive Season
The Royal Court Christmas show is back, with The Scouse Jack And The Beanstalk! You want stupid jokes? They’ve got ’em. You want the best live music in town? They’ve got that too. Rude words, drinks at your table and great meals before the show? They’ve got it all covered! The Royal Court Christmas shows are not for kids so leave them at home and treat yourselves to a great night out! Jack’s mum is fuuumin’.…
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Liverpool News
Participants Wanted for Theatre In The Rough’s New Eco-Arts Project
Liverpool’s Theatre in the Rough has been awarded funding for GROUND – a new arts project exploring the issue of Climate Anxiety in young people. They are now seeking ten participants to create original work for a brand new film and publication. The climate’s in crisis, and that’s some heavy weather. GROUND asks how we can anchor ourselves when the scale of the problem seems overwhelming. To explore these feelings positively, Theatre in the Rough…
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Theatre in Liverpool
Review: The Scousetrap at Liverpool Royal Court Theatre
A show at the Royal Court Theatre rarely disappoints. In advance of taking your seat you know you are in for a belly full of laughs, mickey taking, wonderful scenery, bawdy language, over-acting and fourth wall breaking and you will exit into the night happier for the experience. The Royal Court’s latest production, The Scousetrap, is another loony Liverpool take on a classic, this time the world’s longest running play, The Mousetrap by the Queen…
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Theatre in Liverpool
The Scousetrap Comedy Coming To Liverpool’s Royal Court Theatre
Join the Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool for the Longest Running Scouse Murder Mystery, Thriller, Comedy, as The Scousetrap arrives from 23 September – 29 October. Liverpool, 1940. The Germans have turned their focus on the biggest port in the country and surely it is only a matter of time before their bombs land on the Royal Navy’s Command Centre. The only thing that has kept Liverpool safe until now is that Adolf Hitler used to…
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Theatre in Liverpool
Review: New Dawn Fades at the Epstein Theatre
Bringing musical legends a little Closer. It is 43 years since Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures was released and New Dawn Fades shows how the band came together in the wake of the DIY ethos of punk times following two Sex Pistols gigs in 1976. It captures the day-to-day grind of making it and becoming much more than their forerunners, and with no little humour and powerful character portrayal. So what could this play do differently to the…
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Theatre in Liverpool
Acclaimed Joy Division Stage Show Returns To Liverpool’s Epstein Theatre
A stage play documenting the story of 1970s band Joy Division is embarking on an Autumn tour to mark its 10th anniversary – and includes a return to Liverpool’s Epstein Theatre. New Dawn Fades: A Play About Joy Division And Manchester is the story of four ordinary lads who, inspired by the punk revolution of 1970s Manchester, came together to form one of the most influential bands of all time. New Dawn Fades: A Play…
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Theatre in Liverpool
Full Line-Up For Liverpool Theatre Festival 2022 Revealed
The third annual Liverpool Theatre Festival takes place between Wednesday 31 August and Sunday 11 September 2022, with shows daily performed outdoors within the walls of the historic St Luke’s Bombed Out Church in Liverpool city centre. The festival boasts its biggest programme yet featuring variety and cabaret, comedy, opera, drama, musicals, family shows, and drag acts. The three final additions to complete the programme are The Crown Duels – Gangs Of Hope; Stop The World, We’re Getting Off; and The Forgotten Forest. The full programme…
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Theatre in Liverpool
More Shows Added To Line-Up of Liverpool Theatre Festival
Liverpool Theatre Festival returns in five weeks for its third consecutive year – and it’s back boasting its biggest programme yet bursting with talent, exciting new shows, and plenty of music, glamour, and comedy. Organisers have announced the next round of shows, which showcases a strong variety and cabaret theme for the 2022 event. The announcement also coincides with the festival’s lead sponsor and partner confirmed. The line-up currently features 14 shows on sale, including…
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Things to do in Liverpool
A Lovely Poetry Festival Coming To The Everyman Theatre This Summer
This summer, A Lovely Word in association with Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse bring a brand new poetry festival to the city for everyone. A Lovely Poetry Festival features some of the UK’s top talent, from Liverpool and around the country. At the Everyman Theatre from 1 – 9 July, it will celebrate writing, different voices and showcase the wonderful creative community of Liverpool. Liverpool is a poetry city. A Lovely Poetry Festival celebrates this, uniting,…
