Liverpool Theatre Festival attracted almost 3,000 live performance fans across nine days for its inaugural staging – with calls for it to become an annual event. St Luke’s Bombed Out Church in the heart of the city centre provided the perfect backdrop for the first festival, which featured 19 performances of ... Read More...
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Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse theatres have announced their Rock ‘n’ Roll Panto 'Robin Hood' is postponed until Christmas 2021, as the impact of COVID-19 means the theatres cannot present the popular show in an economically viable way. In a joint statement, Mark Da Vanzo and Gemma Bodinetz, chief executive and artistic ... Read More...
Liverpool theatre producer Bill Elms has created a nine-day outdoor live performance festival to support the city’s "devastated" theatre scene in the wake of the Coronavirus pandemic. Liverpool Theatre Festival will take place between Friday 11 September and Saturday 19 September 2020 and is being staged in association with the team ... Read More...
A talented young performer from Crosby is celebrating after being shortlisted for a prestigious acting prize. Amy Hoole, who is set to graduate from Liverpool Theatre School with a diploma in professional musical theatre this summer, has been named as a finalist for the Spotlight Prize 2020. Amy (21) is just one ... Read More...
Liverpool Theatre School is set to host its first-ever virtual open day for young performers who have their sights set on training for a professional career on the stage. The performing arts college, which specialises in musical theatre, acting and contemporary dance, is inviting potential students and their families to join ... Read More...
Liverpool Theatre School is on the lookout for the next generation of stars as talented young performers are being invited to audition for professional training in musical theatre, acting and contemporary dance. The centre of excellence, based at Liverpool Central Studios in the Baltic Triangle, is currently conducting online video auditions ... Read More...
This week, the stage production of Helen Forrester’s 'By The Waters Of Liverpool' was ground to a halt just three venues into a seventeen venue UK tour. This was due to the Prime Minister's statement on Monday, advising the public to avoid unnecessary social contact, including theatres. The show’s producers have announced ... Read More...
‘Our Lady of Blundellsands’ at the Everyman Meet the Domingo sisters – as the famous Eagles song puts it, prisoners of their own device – growing old gracefully together in a house that has moved no more with the times than it has with the Blundellsands tide. Garnet (Annette Badland) plays stoic ... Read More...
‘Animal Farm’ at the Everyman The original target of George Orwell's 1945 satirical novella – Stalin's Russia – may seem a world away from the UK in 2020. But given the post-truth, post-Brexit (sort of), post-Veganuary crossroads at which we find ourselves, 'Animal Farm' is proving a very timely choice for production ... Read More...
A major arts festival kicks-off in Liverpool this week which promises to take audiences on a "creative and expressive voyage of discovery". The Angel Field Festival, now in its second year, launches on Thursday (6 February) and features music, theatre, dance, film, visual art and storytelling. The festival is organised by Liverpool ... Read More...