Category Archives: Previews

Craig Revel Horwood To Direct And Choreograph All New Production Of Sister Act in 2016.

Jamie Wilson is delighted to announce a national tour of an all new production of the hit musical comedy Sister Act, directed and choreographed by Craig Revel Horwood with musical supervision and arrangements by Tony award-winning Sarah Travis. Sister Act will play the Liverpool Empire Theatre from 10th to 15th October 2016.

Director and Choreographer Craig Revel Horwood said, “I am truly thrilled to be directing and choreographing this all new production of Sister Act, a show I fell in love with when I saw it a few years ago. I am currently putting together a dream creative team and can’t wait to get started next year on this hilarious and wonderful show”.

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Charlie Landsborough Returns To The Liverpool Philharmonic Hall This November.

Charlie Landsborough takes to the road again this autumn on a series of major U.K. dates. Accompanied by his own four piece strong band. It will be the first chance to see him on home turf this year and the last night of the tour promises to be a tour de force as he comes to the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall on November 8th.

Audiences might be forgiven for thinking they know what Charlie Landsborough is all about. Hugely popular in Ireland, purveyor of fine songs and the odd winsome C&W ballad…but there’s more, much more.

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Lizzie Nunnery Returns To The Playhouse Studio With Narvik This September.

Following the critically-acclaimed national tour of Plastic Figurines this spring, North West theatre company Box of Tricks returns to Liverpool Playhouse Studio with their co-production of a bold new play with songs, Narvik, by award-winning playwright Lizzie Nunnery from the 8th to the 19th September. Inspired by tales from naval veterans, and stories of her grandfather’s time in the Navy, Nunnery’s latest play brings to life a powerful story of love, guilt, heroism and betrayal.

“If I was to throw myself beneath that tide… If I was to let the water take me, ’til the cold felt like heat, like love…”

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Now You Know Theatre Company Bring Ole’ Blue Eyes To The Lantern Theatre.

Now You Know Theatre Company Presents One for My Baby at the Lantern Theatre on the 30th July before heading to Edinburgh for this year’s Fringe from the 10th – 29th August (excluding Sundays.)

One for My Baby is an exciting original play, backed by live jazz music, telling of the passionately wild marriage of Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner.

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Nina Conti, Jeremy Hardy And John Challis Amongst The Highlights Of This Year’s Liverpool Comedy Festival.

The annual Liverpool Comedy Festival returns for a 14th consecutive year from Friday 18th September to Sunday 4th October, taking over Britain’s funniest city with events at venues across the city region, and organisers The Comedy Trust can now reveal the full confirmed line-up.

This year’s festival will see some of the biggest names on the comedy circuit, including Chatty Man himself Alan Carr. He performs his brand new show Yap Yap at Liverpool Philharmonic and has now added an extra date due to overwhelming demand, plus also at The Phil is the star of Phoenix Nights and That Peter Kay Thing Dave Spikey with his latest tour Punchlines.

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Mick Cooper’s Stuff To Come To The Lantern Theatre This August.

MBH Theatre are proud to present the multi-award winning STUFF BY Mick Cooper at Liverpool’s Lantern Theatre on the 14th August.

A story of life, death, family, friendship and all the stuff in-between.

Toby and Jess are unable to conceive children. Or rather, Toby is unable to. One night, their charismatic friend – Xav – makes the unique suggestion that they use his frozen ‘stuff’ instead and become parents. Do they take him up on the offer?

The winner of the “Audience Favourite Play” Award at the 24:7 Theatre Festival sees original cast members Eve Burley and Karl Greenwood return to the play.

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Off The Ground Theatre Bring The Musketeers To Life This July And August.

Off the Ground Theatre are busy sharpening their rapiers, practising lunges and flirting outrageously in preparation for this summer’s touring production of The Musketeers. There will be overwhelming amounts of swash and buckle as the, now slightly older, heroes with a little help from Athos’ son and D’Artagnan’s daughter, charm women (and some men), quaff wine and fight off Spanish and Dutch spies- all in the name of France.

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A Stellar Line-Up Confirmed For The Festival Day Of The Liverpool Loves Extravaganza.

Organisers of Liverpool Loves are delighted to announce further music acts, which will form part of Festival Day on Saturday 8th August at the iconic location of Pier Head Liverpool on the city’s waterfront.

Following the ‘Liverpool Loves New Music’ daytime programme; the ‘Liverpool Loves Allstars’ programme, being delivered in association with charity Teenage Cancer Trust, will bring the festival to an incredible finale on the Saturday evening between 8:45pm – 10:30pm with a raft of Liverpool big-hitters.

The confirmed line-up includes Beryl Marsden, Tommy Scott, Ian McNabb, Connie Lush, James Walsh, Digsy and The Sums, The La’s Cami, Western Promise and other special guests to be announced.

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YEP Return To The Outside Arena To Present Modern Twist On Robin Hood.

Following the successes of The Wind in the Willows and Alice in Wonderland, Young Everyman Playhouse (YEP) take their annual outdoor performance to Princes Park. The play will take advantage of the park’s natural features to present a fun, modern twist on Robin Hood from Friday 24th to Sunday 26th July.

The annual park show has become a mainstay in the YEP programme since it was formed in 2012 and is renowned for its inventive take on classic children’s books. This year’s eagerly awaited summer show will see Robin Hood and his band of Merry Men swashbuckle their way through Princes Park in a high energy, comedic tale of the age-old battle of rich versus poor.

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Greta Scacchi Leads Cast Of The Glass Menagerie At The Liverpool Playhouse This Autumn.

Greta Scacchi and Tom Mothersdale will be joined by Erin Doherty and Eric Kofi Abrafa in Ellen McDougall’s production of Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie, a co-production between Headlong, Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse and West Yorkshire Playhouse. The play is at the Williamson Square venue from Wednesday 7th to Saturday 31st October.

A frustrated mother, a daughter lost in her imagination, and a son intent on rebellion.

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