Category Archives: Previews

Burjesta Theatre Bring Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet On The Western Front To The Casa.

Europe 1914. The outbreak of hostilities begins World War I. Paul Baumer and his school mates enlist in the German army and soon find themselves alongside millions of others fighting on the Western Front. None could have imagined the horrors they are to experience…

And none of them will return home quite the same…

All Quiet on the Western Front is Erich Maria Remarque’s classic anti-war novel which is now bought being bought to the stage by Burjesta Theatre at The Casa on Hope Street between the 14th and the 22nd November. All Quiet on the Western Front, set in the trenches and on the Home Front during World War I, with the war being seen from the perspective of ordinary German soldiers and their mothers, wives, teachers and others

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Anything Goes At The Empire Theatre As Cole Porter’s Classic Musical Comes To Liverpool.

Stage Entertainment, in association with Sheffield Theatres, are delighted to announce the U.K. and Ireland tour of Cole Porter’s classic musical comedy, Anything Goes. Following its run at the Crucible theatre in Sheffield (28th November 2014 – 17th January 2015), the tour will see Anything Goes comes to the Liverpool Empire Theatre between the 16th and 21st March.

Directed by Daniel Evans and choreographed by Alistair David, this brand new production of Cole Porter’s classic, multi-award winning musical comedy, Anything Goes transports you to the magical age of tap dancing and high society.

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Told By An Idiot’s My Perfect Mind Set To Return To The Unity Theatre.

The centrepiece of the Unity Theatre’s autumn programme is the welcome return of Told By An Idiot with the acclaimed play, My Perfect Mind. This dark comedy features Olivier award-winning actor Edward Petherbridge, one of the U.K.’s most distinguished stage actors who performed in Laurence Olivier’s National Theatre Company and played Guildenstern in the world premiere of Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. Undoubtedly an unmissable show!

Brimming with Told by an Idiot’s inventive style, My Perfect Mind is a moving and comic exploration of the resilience of the human spirit. Performed by Edward Petherbridge and Paul Hunter in a production directed by Kathryn Hunter, the show blurs events from a life-changing chapter in Edward’s life and moments from King Lear.

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The Sensational Riverdance Celebrates 20 Years With Several Performances At The Empire Theatre.

Live Nation is proud to announce that the Riverdance 20th Anniversary Tour will visit 16 venues across the U.K. including a visit to the Liverpool Empire Theatre between Tuesday 28th and Sunday 2nd November. With an incredible two decades of global success since the show first burst into the public’s heart at the Eurovision Song Contest in Dublin in 1994, this is an unmissable chance for U.K. audiences to reconnect with what the Irish Times rightly described as “The Original…The Best”. The Washington Post exclaimed, “Its continued popularity proves that it was, and remains, a phenomenon of historic proportions!”

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China Crisis To Perform At The Prestigious Floral Pavilion This November.

Since forming in Kirkby in 1979, China Crisis have become one of the most enduring and much loved groups to have come out of the Liverpool area. As part of the autumn season at the Floral Pavilion in New Brighton, the band will be performing on November 14th in what promises to be a magical night of music.

Coming out the city that was bulging with new wave acts that included Echo and the Bunnymen, The Teardrop Explodes and Frankie Goes to Hollywood, both Gary Daly and Eddie Lunden have wowed their live audiences with sets that have been gracious and entertaining and fans have taken.

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Richard Herring Returns To The Epstein Theatre With Brand New Show.

On Saturday 1st November legendary comedian Richard Herring brings his hilarious new show Lord of the Dance Settee to The Epstein Theatre as part of his new U.K tour.

Lord of the Dance Settee is his eleventh stand-up show in eleven years. Having sorted out everything from politics, religion, love, death and spam-javelins in his previous shows, the funny-man is now in a frivolous mood with a show about daftness, being uncool and bouncing joyously on a sofa.

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Pilkington Musical Theatre Company Present The Addams Family – The Musical At St. Helens Theatre Royal.

The Addams Family remains one of the finest television exports to have found its way across the Atlantic to British television viewer’s hearts. For those of a certain age and those that have come across it thanks to video, D.V.D. and repeats on the small screen, the love story between Gomez and Morticia is as romantic as it is funny, the family is as cooky as they are creepy and anything goes in their lives as long as the family plays and works together.

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Billy Cowan’s Still Ill To Be Performed At The Lantern Theatre As Part Of Homotopia Festival.

A tragic love story between ‘the jumped up pantry boy’ and the ‘boy with the thorn in his side’ comes to Liverpool’s Lantern Theatre on 21ST and 22nd November, as part of Homotopia Festival.

Still Ill is an award-winning new play that explores the legacy of the peace process in Northern Ireland and the music of The Smiths. It is a blistering drama that involves gay paramilitaries and gives an honest assessment of Ulster ten years after the signing of the Good Friday Agreement.

Written by award-winning playwright Billy Cowan (who teaches Creative Writing at Edge Hill University in Ormskirk) and directed by Kenneth Branagh’s younger sister Joyce.

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Brit Floyd Announce Night At The Liverpool Echo Arena As Part of 2014 Tour.

Having performed to over one million fans around the world since its first show in Liverpool, England in January 2011, Brit Floyd – The World’s Greatest Pink Floyd Show, returns to the U.K. from November 2014 to perform DISCOVERY, a stunning new three hour chronological musical journey spanning the entire recording career of Pink Floyd from 1967 – 1994.

The tour, which starts on November 19th in Norwich and will visit venues in towns and cities such as Brighton on the 22nd November, Birmingham’s Symphony Hall on Monday 1st December and Gateshead on 5th December before coming to Liverpool’s Echo Arena on Saturday 13th December.

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Bryan Ferry To Return To Liverpool’s Philharmonic Hall in 2015.

After an impressive set of performances around the world throughout 2014 including the lauded Glastonbury and Coachella debuts, British musical icon Bryan Ferry has announced a 20 date U.K. tour in May and June 2015.

The newly announced dates will feature an incredible set list of both Roxy Music and solo hits, and include songs from Ferry’s forthcoming new album Avonmore (released Nov 17th). The tour, which starts on Friday 8th May at the Cambridge Corn Exchange and will take in venues such as the New Theatre in Oxford on May 9th, Newcastle City Hall on Sunday 17th May, Birmingham Symphony Hall on May 20th and Poole Lighthouse on Sunday 7th June, will be coming to the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall on Tuesday 26th May.

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