Emma Fielding will play the title role of Emma Bovary in The Massive Tragedy of Madame Bovary! this spring. The production which will open at the Everyman from 5th to 27th February will then play at co-producing partners Bristol Old Vic, Nuffield, Southampton and Royal & Derngate, Northampton. Joining Fielding will be John Nicholson and Javier Marzan of Peepolykus and Jonathan Holmes who have the unenviable challenge of playing all the remaining roles in Flaubert’s epic tale.
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The Epstein Theatre Welcomes Soul Goddess Ruby Turner This Spring.
Widely regarded as one of the greatest voices the U.K. has ever produced, Ruby Turner will be signed, sealed, delivered on Friday 15th April 2016 at the Epstein Theatre.
Fresh from her television appearance on B.B.C.’s Jools’ Annual Hootenanny on New Year’s Eve, Ruby will be heading to Liverpool to perform some of her greatest hits.
Audiences are in for a real treat as Ruby is widely regarded as one of the world’s greatest R&B and soul singers will bring the house down with her incredible voice and big personality.
Brutally Moving Edinburgh Hit, I Am Not Myself These Days, Coming To Liverpool.
At the 2015 Edinburgh Fringe the extraordinarily compelling tour-de-force performance of Tom Stuart, in his own adaptation of the best-selling memoir, became one of the talking points of the Festival. Audiences were visibly moved by the story of alcoholic drag queen Aqua desperately trying to make a relationship work with Jack, a high-class rent boy addicted to crack. As part of a U.K. tour the play is coming to Liverpool Playhouse from the 2nd-6th February.
The Classic Rock Show Returns In 2016 With More Of The Greatest Guitar Riffs Of All Time.
“The classic rock fan’s ultimate live juke box!”
Following the immense success of their sell-out 2015 U.K. tour and as a testimony to the worldwide popularity of classic rock music, The Classic Rock Show will be back in 2016 bigger, fresher, and even better to perform ‘Part 2’ of the greatest guitar riffs of all time!
From the extraordinary opening sounds of Led Zeppelin’s Whole Lotta Love to Queen’s powerhouse anthem I Want It All via AC/DC’s Highway To Hell and everything in between, this show will rock you to your core…Classic Rock doesn’t get any better than this!
LipService Move Over Moriarty This Coming January At The Unity Theatre.
The grand ladies of LipService have raided their Greatest Hits back catalogue to reprise Move Over Moriarty on Thursday 14th – Saturday 16th January at Unity Theatre.
When Death stalks the boards of the Strand Theatre, who better to call in to investigate than Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson …
The brilliant, violin-playing, French-knitting master sleuth, only hindered a little by his smaller sidekick, investigates the Garibaldi Biscuit Affair. In this murderous music hall melange, impenetrable as a London pea-souper, they come face to face with male impersonator Vesta Curry, Death-Defying Dan and his whelk-infested Tank of Terror, the Musical Motherless Twins and lots more alliteration – truly a three-pipe problem.
Icons Compliment Each Other As St George’s Hall Plays Host To The Grimethorpe Colliery Band This January.
Liverpool’s iconic St George’s hall invites audiences to join them to watch the real stars of the hit movie Brassed Off, the Grimethorpe Colliery Band when they play The Concert Room on Sunday 10th January.
Formed in 1917 from Grimethorpe in South Yorkshire, they have grown to become a British Institution. Throughout the years the band has racked up a huge selection of awards including 16 Brass in Concert championship titles, 11 times Yorkshire Regional Champions, two English National Championship victories, four times British Open Champions and four times National Champion Brass Band of Great Britain.
Raucous Comedy, The Ale House, Returns To The Stage In 2016.
Fresh from its recent regional success, raucous comedy The Ale House is back in the city where it was first brewed from Thursday, 25th February to Saturday, 19th March 2016. Tickets are on sale at 10am today.
Actors, Philip Olivier and Jake Abraham, who recently starred in a production of the show which went down a storm at St. Helens Theatre Royal, have decided a second round is in order.
They have joined forces to co-direct their own version of the hilariously rowdy show from Furlong and Power, the writers of Night Collar, which will be a special site-specific staging at The Dome in Grand Central on Liverpool’s Renshaw Street.
Edinburgh Fringe Festival Smash, Lennon: Through A Glass Onion, At The Epstein Theatre Next April.
A play about Beatles legend John Lennon which opened in Australia, has played Off Broadway New York, and wowed audience at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival is heading to Liverpool for two weeks in April 2016.
Lennon: Through A Glass Onion will open at The Epstein Theatre, Hanover Street, on Monday 18th April, running through to Friday 29th April. There will be 14 performances across the two weeks, including four matinees.
What We Did Next Return This Winter With I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change.
Liverpool theatre company What We Did Next return this winter with the witty musical I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change. The show, which celebrates the mating game in our modern world, is being presented in a radically different way from what audiences will have seen before.
Audience members will be welcomed into the venue which has been transformed into what director Andrew Abrahamson describes as a ‘relationship dynamics seminar’. The entire musical will be presented in this immersive tongue-in-cheek format where the ‘seminar participants’ will be encouraged to share (sanitised!) snippets of their own lives whilst they move through a number of rooms as the play unfolds.
International Singing Star, Jack Jones, Returns To The U.K. With The Songs Of Frank Sinatra.
Much loved international singing star, the one and only Jack Jones, is returning to the U.K.
Back for a short tour in February 2016, which starts on January 31st in Bury St. Edmonds and which comes to the New Brighton Floral Pavilion on Saturday 6th February, it’ll be Jack’s first visit to the U.K. since 2013 and it promises to be a rare treat. Complete with a big band he celebrates one of the greatest singers of all time – Frank Sinatra.