Friday, February 28, 2020
Since penning hit play Beautiful Thing in the 1990s, Jonathan Harvey has combined theatre work with TV, writing some of Coronation Street’s
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A childhood trip to the North Wales holiday camp of Colomendy has been a rite of passage for generations of Liverpudlians. Its
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Charles Dickens’ perennially popular festive novella has been endlessly retold and reworked since it was published more than 175 years ago. In
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It has been a busy year for musical director George Francis, who turns 23 on the first preview of his new show,
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“I used to be Snow White,” Mae West famously wisecracked, “but then I drifted.” While Hayley Sheen’s Scouse Snow White may be
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Though Robert Louis Stevenson’s slight but thematically rich story of the unleashing of the dark soul has been dramatised in numerous different
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After almost a century, marks left by the Second World War can still be seen across UK theatre. But it wasn’t just
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In the week Liverpool prepares for its annual Pride festival, Masquerade is a reminder that LGBT+ culture hasn’t always been celebrated quite
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As Blackpool’s Grand Theatre marks its 125th birthday, Catherine Jones charts the history of this gem in Blackpool’s crown that has weathered
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Dave Kirby’s 2006 play Lost Soul was an unashamed celebration of the middle-aged. Over the course of a decade its Motown-loving 50-something
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Boisterous Theatre Company is the brainchild of writer Maurice Bessman and director Miriam Mussa. They felt that, despite improvements, creatives from ethnic
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Since it opened two years ago, Chester’s Storyhouse has forged a reputation as a local cultural hub. Its chief executive Andrew Bentley
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While the real world is in meltdown over Brexit, this revival of Scouse comedy Brick Up 2 is more concerned with the
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Three years ago, Theatre-Rites and 20 Stories High collaborated on the raw and refreshingly original Broke ‘N’ Beat Collective. Big Up! –
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Tip Top Productions’ Aladdin proves you don’t need a lavish budget or star names to stage a successful Christmas show. Promising “magic,
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There’s only one way to follow the greatest story ever told, and that’s with the world’s favourite fairytale. The Royal Court has
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After four decades at Blackpool Opera House, its technical manager tells Catherine Jones why working at the Winter Gardens is a family
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There was a time immortality was the preserve of the famous. The rest of us were memorialised in the minds of friends
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Four decades after John Godber’s Bouncers was first staged at the Fringe it remains one of the most popular and performed comedies
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In medieval times the Chester Mystery Plays were performed by the city’s various Guilds, from water drawers to wheelwrights and glaziers to
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It’s shaping up to be a sun-blessed season for travelling troupes bringing live theatre to the nation’s parks and gardens. Mate Productions
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Inspired by Monty Python and the Beatles, Liverpool-based Robert Farquhar pens off-the-wall, anarchic, funny plays, but always with a message. He tells
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He was an audience member in his student days, now he’s the man at the helm. Unity Theatre’s artistic director talks to
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Male Shakespearean roles taken by actresses are often described as ‘gender neutral’, but Golda Rosheuvel’s Othello at Liverpool’s Everyman is very much
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Back in the 70s, The Liver Birds was ground-breaking TV – a show where the lead characters were two young women who
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Dave Kirby took inspiration for Council Depot Blues from his time working as a young Liverpool ‘corpy’ house clearer in the 1980s.
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After two decades of planning and multiple redesigns, the building of Shakespeare North Playhouse is about to get underway. Key figures in
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In Dead and Breathing, playwright Chisa Hutchinson takes on a tricky but timely topic with the aid of an injection of deadly
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Reading Her Benny, Silas Hocking’s Dickensian tale of slum children fighting to better themselves in a cruel world, has been a rite
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The art deco venue has been awarded national portfolio organisation status and has recently completed a major restoration, just in time to
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From humble beginnings, Phillip Rowntree and David Hutchinson’s company is now a global enterprise, with hit shows in China, New York and
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