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Mischief Theatre Return To Chester’s Storyhouse With Peter Pan Goes Wrong This January.

Third visit for award-winning stage company.

Multi award-winning theatre company Mischief Theatre is returning to Storyhouse in Chester this January with its new show, Peter Pan Goes Wrong.

Mischief Theatre have already wowed Storyhouse audiences twice before with smash hit shows, The Play That Goes Wrong and The Comedy About A Bank Robbery. And now the team are delighted play the Chester venue for a third time with yet another top show.

Peter Pan Goes Wrong comes to Storyhouse from Tuesday 21st January to Sunday 26th January 2020 for eight performances, including three matinees. Tickets are now on sale.

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Billy Ocean Celebrates His 70th Birthday With His First Original Studio Album In Over Ten Years Plus Announcement Of A Night Of Music At The Liverpool Philharmonic Hall.

As Billy Ocean celebrates his 70th birthday this month, it has been announced that he will release his first album of new material in 10 years, One World. The album will be released on 17th April 2020 with the title single, also called One World available from today, following its premiere on B.B.C. Radio 2. Later this year Billy will head out on The One World tour in the autumn, this will include a night at the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall on the 21st September. This follows the recent news that he has been appointed to MBE for his services to music at this year’s New Year’s Honours.

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Banish The January Blues As Nicky Allt Returns To The Royal Court With Lost In Colomendy.

Nicky Allt is back at the Royal Court with a brand-new comedy about everybody’s favourite school trip venue!

Lost In Colomendy follows four middle aged chancers who have been sent on a team-building course that will make or break them. There will be plenty of laughs as the four of them find themselves up a mountain without a paddle.

The cast has been confirmed and is full of familiar faces. Royal Court regulars Paul Duckworth (Scouse Cinderella, Brick Up 2), Alan Stocks (Mam I’m Ere, Father O’Flaherty Saves Our Souls), Jane Hogarth (Funny Money) and Liam Tobin (The Menlove Avenue Murder Mystery) are joined by Court debutant John Evans who has just finished a run in Peter Pan over at The Empire.

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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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