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2020 Gets Underway In Earnest As The January Blues Are Banished At The Epstein Theatre.

Liverpool’s Epstein Theatre is seeing in the new year with an action-packed month of theatre entertainment, live music, tributes and classic comedy, including live acoustic music from Turin Brakes, a celebration of the musical talents of The Carpenters, The Eagles, Roy Orbison, Buddy Holly and Elvis and the return of Phoenix Nights‘ paranormal sensation Clinton Baptiste!

On Sunday 19th January, Tread Theatre presents their annual family pantomime Dick Whittington, written by former Hollyoaks actor Helen Noble and directed and choreographed by former West End Star, Graham Tudor.

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Critically Acclaimed Play, Riot Act, Comes To The Epstein Theatre As Part Of U.K. Tour.

Next month, Liverpool’s Epstein Theatre will be one of a number of venues to host the critically acclaimed play Riot Act. The play, which comes to the city on Wednesday 5th February, coincides with LGBTQ History Month and the anniversary of Stonewall.

The powerful verbatim theatre piece explores the history of the LGBTQ rights movement, and the 10-date tour coincides with LGBTQ History Month. The play, which follows a run at the Duchess Theatre in the West End, will also visit Harrogate, Bradford, Milford Haven, Cheltenham, London, Keswick, Newcastle, Doncaster and Bracknell.

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Deep Purple’s Don Airey And Thin Lizzy’s Brian Downey Come To The Manchester Academy 3 On Monday 3rd February.

Support on The Night Will Come From The Sensational Rebecca Downes.

Don Airey, current keyboard player with Deep Purple and Brian Downey, former drummer with Thin Lizzy are pleased to announce a February 2020 – U.K. tour, which includes a night at the Academy 3 in Manchester, with support from the fabulous Rebecca Downes.

In these days where everybody seems to want to show off at every given occasion, Don Airey is without a doubt “One of A Kind”.

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Josie Lawrence Completes Casting For The Everyman’s Our Lady Of Blundellsands.

The Everyman has announced full casting for the 2020 production of Jonathan Harvey’s hilariously twisted comic drama Our Lady of Blundellsands.

Actor Josie Lawrence completes casting as Sylvie in the production, which runs at the Liverpool theatre from 6th-28th March.

Known for her role as Manda Best in Eastenders, Josie was also the first female performer on improvisational comedy television series Whose Line is it Anyway?, on which she was a regular for almost a decade.  She received critical acclaim for her portrayal of Mother Courage, in the 2017 Southwark Playhouse production of Mother Courage and Her Children.

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Buzzcocks to Play At Manchester’s Gorilla On Sunday 15th December.

Pete Shelley and Howard Devoto formed Buzzcocks in Bolton in February 1976. The band, completed by the addition of Steve Diggle and John Maher, opened for the Sex Pistols in Manchester on July 20th,

A follow up to the now (in)famous Lesser Free Trade Hall gig which Devoto and Shelley had organised the month before.

Gigs in Manchester and London followed, and by the end of 1976, Buzzcocks became one of the first groups to form their own independent record label – New Hormones – on which they released the now-legendary and seminal Spiral Scratch E.P.

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Rock ‘N’ Roll Dreams Come True As Bat Out Of Hell-The Musical Comes To Liverpool In 2020.

The producers of the award-winning Bat Out Of Hell – The Musical, featuring Jim Steinman and Meatloaf’s greatest hits, are delighted to announce the musical will be returning to tour the U.K., following an Australian tour, with performances at the Liverpool Empire from 8th December 2020 – 2nd January 2021.

Bat Out Of Hell – The Musical wowed critics and public alike when it played limited seasons at Manchester Opera House, London Coliseum and London’s Dominion Theatre from 2017 – 2019. The musical also ran successfully in Canada, Germany and at New York’s City Centre last summer.

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Back By Popular Demand, The Legendary Four Tops And Temptations Come To Liverpool In 2020.

Motown legends The Four Tops and The Temptations are returning to the U.K. in November 2020 to perform some of their most popular and award-winning songs that continue to inspire musicians around the globe.

The Tamla Motown label broke down cultural and social barriers and The Four Tops and The Temptations were at the very forefront of that transformative period. Original members, Duke Fakir and Otis Williams, of the Four Tops and Temptations respectively, hold a special place in the hearts of British fans, and they are both delighted to be returning to the U.K. for the 2020 8-date concert tour in October and November, a tour which will see the legendary sound of both bands come back to Liverpool’s M & S Bank Arena on Monday 2nd November 2020.

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The Australian Pink Floyd Return To Liverpool As Part Of 2020 Tour.

The critically lauded The Australian Pink Floyd Show have announced a brand-new tour for 2020 featuring tracks from Pink Floyd’s classic albums. The tour will head to Liverpool’s Empire Theatre on Sunday 29th November 2020.

Selling 5 million tickets worldwide and described by The Times as “The Gold Standard“ and The Daily Mirror as “The Kings of the Genre“, The Australian Pink Floyd Show gave its first ever concert in Adelaide, Australia in 1988. Since then, they have performed in over 35 countries worldwide; played at David Gilmour’s 50th birthday celebration and were even joined on stage by Rick Wright. TAPFS is the leading and biggest show of its kind in the world.

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Simple Minds To Come To Liverpool in August 2020 As Part Of 40th Anniversary Tour.

Due to phenomenal demand Simple Minds have added five extra U.K. arena dates to their world tour in 2020 celebrating 40 iconic years. The tour will now include a night at Liverpool’s M & S Bank Arena on August 22nd. Tickets will go on sale from 10am on Friday 6th December and will be available from the Arena’s Box Office.

“Simple Minds are different now,” says Jim Kerr. “We’re not a stock rock band, but we haven’t changed our line-up to be cool. We’ve done it because it’s great to have so many amazing players on board. I’m grateful for the career we’ve had, but I’m mad enough to think we can still hit new levels. This is what we do, write, record and play live.”

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The Smash Hit Musical -The Book Of Mormon, Is Coming To Liverpool’s Empire Theatre In 2020.

The Book of Mormon, Broadway’s smash-hit musical written by Trey Parker, Matt Stone and Robert Lopez, is coming to the Liverpool Empire Theatre next year from Tuesday 14th July 2020.

Public booking  for the Tony, Olivier and Grammy award-winning show will open at 10am on Wednesday 20th November 2019 at www.thebookofmormonmusical.com and at the Liverpool Empire Theatre box office from 12pm.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone are the creators of the Emmy and Peabody award-winning television show, South Park, now in its twenty second season, and the feature films South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut and Team America: World Police.

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