Category Archives: Previews

Edinburgh Fringe Bound Play With Myself To Preview At 81 Renshaw Street.

Before heading up to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August, Graduate of the University of Liverpool’s Liam Hale’s Play With Myself will be previewing in Liverpool on 11th July at 81 Renshaw Street.

Character comedy parodying the world of theatre. Featuring parental love, tragedy, bizarre gypsy curses, dead dogs and buzz-saws…

Drama practitioner Gregory Bike invites you to witness a stage adaptation of the most important part of his life. Tasked with putting on a play Gregory not only has to write, direct, and act in his masterpiece but must also find love, avoid seeing his son’s presumably awful performances and avoid an early death at the hands of fairground attractions.

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Off The Ground And Firwood Waterloo Rugby Club Presents Unique Performance Of Jason & The Argonauts.

This August, join Firwood Waterloo Rugby Club for Play Under the Posts as they present Off The Ground’s first public performance of Jason & the Argonauts on Friday 1st August at 6.30pm.

Embark on an epic adventure in this unique setting, with Jason and his band of heroic Argonauts.

See how Jason uses all his strength and wit to evade the beastly Minotaur, how he and his gang avoid certain doom from the women on the Isle of Lemnos, and how they evade the lure from the enchanting sounds of the Sirens…and ultimately win in the quest for the Golden Fleece.

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Liverpool Empire’s Stage Experience Showcases Cats This August.

Tickets for the Liverpool Empire’s Stage Experience project for 2014 are now on sale. Over 100 young people from the local area will work with a professional creative team to stage a production of the much-loved musical Cats.

Based on T.S Eliot’s Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats and award-winning music composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber, the show tells a story of fantasy, drama and romance set on the night of the Jellicle Ball.

Stage Experience is an annual two week summer school programme delivered by the Creative Learning department at the Liverpool Empire and during which, over 100 lucky young people will work alongside industry professionals to stage a full scale musical production in just two weeks.

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The Boomtown Rats To Perform at Liverpool’s 02 Academy This October.

After last year’s storming of the Isle of Wight Festival stage an exhilarated Bob Geldof said “It’s weird. I’d forgotten how powerful a band The Rats are!”

Others hadn’t.  What was only meant to be a brief “re-grouping” turned into a triumphant sell out U.K. tour, a block-booked 2014 Festival season and now the announcement of ‘Ratlife’ the second half of The Boomtown Rats’ second coming.  Taking in the towns missed out on their first jaunt and returning – literally by public demand – to the country’s major cities so thoroughly re-Ratted six months ago.  Beyond nostalgia both press and audience agreed that those many classic Ratsongs had indeed stood the test of time morphing from the radical, upstart transgressive rage of the mid-70’s into tunes for the ages with a tragic contemporary resonance.

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John Barrowman’s ‘You Raise Me Up’ Tour To Come To Liverpool In 2015

Britain’s best all-round entertainer John Barrowman is announcing a 16-date tour for 2015 in support of his new album, You Raise Me Up. This will be John’s first full U.K. tour in four years, and promises to be an entertainment experience not to be missed.

“I’m so excited to be touring again,” said John, “that I’m choreographing songs and arranging stories in my sleep.’

John’s fans funded the album through PledgeMusic’s Direct to Fan platform. It features new arrangements of many of John’s favourite songs, including Mandy, Bridge Over Troubled Water, A Thousand Years, and the title track, You Raise Me Up.

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Award-Winning Theatre Company, 20 Stories High, Bring Two New Shows To Liverpool.

Award-winning Theatre Company, 20 Stories High, is gearing up for a busy summer of performance and festivals with two brand new shows created and performed by the young people of Liverpool.

The local charity that works with and for teenagers and young adults, has been working with young people from excluded communities since 2008 and is growing from strength the strength sticking firmly to their belief that “Everybody’s got a story to tell, and their own way of telling it”.

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The Ghosts Of Kirkdale Come To The Unity Theatre This July.

The abandoned children of Victorian Liverpool are brought back to life in Lyn Wakefield’s The Ghosts of Kirkdale which comes to the Unity Theatre on Friday 11th and Saturday 12th July.

Set in a workhouse-style industrial school in 1880’s Liverpool, a group of forgotten children struggle to overcome the hardships and harsh regime of the sinister Mr Goodridge who believes the children are a result of ‘laziness, drunkeness and vice’ and are mere ‘paupers’ getting what they deserve in this poignant tale of friendship and new beginnings.

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Legendary Founding Member Of The Byrds, Roger McGuinn, To Perform In Liverpool.

Legendary former Byrds frontman and founding member, Roger McGuinn returns for a string of U.K. dates this September. The Bryds’ era defining songs like Eight Miles High, Mr Tambourine Man, Turn, Turn, Turn and All I Really Wanna Do became classics of the new folk rock sound.

McGuinn’s trademark Rickenbacker 12 string sound has influenced generations of musicians and this superb show will draw from his huge back catalogue, including his Grammy-nominated project, Treasures From The Folk Den, his critically acclaimed 4 C.D. Box Set, The Folk Den Project and 22 Timeless Tracks From The Folk Den
Project.

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The Legion Of Doom Aim High At This Year’s Edinburgh Festival.

After 2013’s ‘smashed’ hit show Sketchpocolyse Now, Liverpool’s longest serving alternative comedy collective return to the Edinburgh Fringe with brand new sketches devised to make you laugh or curl up in a ball and cry! Join them for children’s entertainer Neil Buchanan’s unnervingly frank assessment of Edvard Munch’s The Scream, Call of Duty’s arcade reenactment of the battle of the Somme and the consequences of the Virgin Mary being pro choice. Fun for all! (Over 18’s only.)

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Smash Hit Musical, Blood Brothers, Makes Its Way To St. Helens Theatre Royal.

Following sell out seasons in the United States, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and Japan, the international smash hit musical Blood Brothers continues to tour the U.K. and comes to St Helens Theatre Royal from Monday 17th November for one week only. Hailed as one of the best musicals of all time, Blood Brothers has triumphed across the globe. Scooping up no less than four awards for best musical in London and seven Tony Award nominations on Broadway, Blood Brothers is simply unmissable and unbeatable. This epic tale of Liverpool life ran in London’s West End for 24 years and has been touring the U.K. since 1995.

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