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Performance & Film / 07 Jul 2013

Feature: 7 Theatres Heading Outdoors This Summer

Tis the season when theatres traditionally go ‘dark’ - but Liverpool’s theatre groups are heading outside this Summer. Vicky Anderson picks seven highlights.

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Performance & Film / 05 May 2013 / 1 comment

Feature: 7 Comedians To See At Four Candles

Weekly ‘no stags; no hens; comedy night Four Candles has a welath of chucklesome riches coming over the Summer. Here are just seven highlights.

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Performance & Film / 03 Mar 2013 / 3 comments

Feature: Wave Goodbye to The Kronos, at Kazimier

New Year’s Eve is a special time in Wolstenholme Square. And we’re not talking about Tiësto flying in for a two hour set. Oh no. We’re talking about the continuing adventures of folk who live….

Performance & Film / 03 Mar 2013 / 1 comment

Feature: 7 Plays In March You Might Not Know About

From the Bluecoat to the Capstone; Camp & Furnace to the Royal Court; Liverpool has homegrown delights to suit every taste this month.

Performance & Film / 01 Jan 2013

Feature: 7 Comedy Shows In Liverpool This Winter

It’s freezing outside and while we can’t warm you up we’ve found seven Liverpool comedy shows that should cheer you up…

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Performance & Film / 01 Jan 2013

Feature: 7 Plays To See This Winter

Sod the Winter austerity - here are seven plays in Liverpool to warm your cockles.

Performance & Film / 11 Nov 2012 / 2 comments

Feature: If Walls Could Talk: 100 Seel Street

We’ve talked before about the city’s ghostly army of empty spaces. And of how we need, as a collective, to rethink our way towards reanimating them. So, imagine our surprise when, a week after our….

Performance & Film / 10 Oct 2012

Feature: Seven Streets Surgery: How to be a Mindreader

It’s comforting to know that the great LIPA doesn’t just churn out math rockers and theatre techs. Oh no, Macca’s Alma Mater is your regular end of the pier variety show, helping ensure Piers Morgan….

Performance & Film / 07 Jul 2012

Feature: A Midsummer Dream: Liverpool actors head to RSC

Altru Drama’s Kate Gorst tells us why a group of teenagers from Knowsley are heading to the RSC this weekend to perform A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Performance & Film / 07 Jul 2012 / 1 comment

Feature: 30 years of Brookie

With a Brookside 30th anniversary DVD on the way, we ask film and TV academic Noel Brown to assess the cultural impact of the Close, Bing Crosby and Jimmy Corkhill

Performance & Film / 07 Jul 2012

Feature: Arab Summer: Liverpool Arabic Arts Festival

Can art shine a lens on the turbulent events of the Arabic world? This year’s Liverpool Arabic Arts Festival offers a response as rich and diverse as the region’s cultures, and offers a fresh perspective.

Performance & Film / 07 Jul 2012 / 7 comments

Feature: Whale Song: A Love Story

A strange cargo washes up on our shores this Friday - as Whale Song arrives with stories and songs about the deep oceans, unrequited love and, erm, Central Library…

Performance & Film / 07 Jul 2012 / 6 comments

Feature: Baptism of Fire: Leanne Best Interview

The world premiere at the Playhouse Studio is the hottest thing in the city right now - and its star is set to shine very brightly. David Lloyd talks to The Match Box’s Leanne Best.