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Children’s Classic The Cat In The Hat Visits The Playhouse For Five Nights Of Mayhem This February.

A production of Dr. Seuss’ The Cat in the Hat will open the 2019 season at the Playhouse from 12th-16th February to kick start a busy season of family shows this Spring.

Based on the much-loved book that has captivated generations of readers, The Cat in the Hat is filled with feline frivolity. With acrobatic accomplices Thing 1 and Thing 2, riotous rhymes, infectious humour and spectacular circus, this family production is set to delight young and old alike.

The production is brought to the Playhouse by Curve Leicester and Rose Theatre Kingston, whose productions of George’s Marvellous Medicine, The Twits and The Witches have visited Liverpool to great acclaim.

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Liverpool Nightlife Collective SisBis Announce Their Next Refugee Fundraiser At 24 Kitchen Street On 23rd February 2019.

Liverpool Nightlife collective, SisBis are delighted to welcome the all-star trio of DJs, Winds & Skins (Donna Leake, Debora Ipekel and Ece Duzgit) to 24 Kitchen Street on Saturday 23rd February 2019. They’ll be joined by SisBis resident Giovanna, with visuals by local illustrator, Helena Geilinger.

Winds & Skins are three London based DJs making an impact across global dancefloors. Donna Leake is curator at East London club and sushi house, Brilliant Corners, is an NTS regular and was recently nominated for Best Breakthrough DJ in DJ Mag’s best of British poll. Debora Ipekel hosts shows on Gilles Peterson’s Worldwide FM and works as a researcher for Boiler Room having helped organise the ground-breaking shows in Palestine last year. Ece Duzgit is an NTS regular and co owns record label Zel Zele with Debora Ipekel. They will play a three-way back to back extended show.

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Story Pocket Theatre Presents AniMalcolm At The Epstein Theatre.

Story Pocket Theatre are delighted to announce that AniMalcolm, based on the bestselling children’s book by David Baddiel, will play at The Epstein Theatre on Thursday 28th February and Friday 1st March as part of a major U.K. tour and following a smash-hit premiere at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2018.

Malcolm doesn’t like animals, which is a problem because his family are wild about them. In fact, their house is full of pets of all shapes and sizes. The only bright spot on the horizon is the Year Six school trip, until when he is on the bus, heading to a farm. But on a school trip like no other, Malcolm begins to understand animals more deeply than anyone.  Will he end up the same as before? Because sometimes the hardest thing to become is yourself.

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Luke Kempner To Leave Lasting Impression As He Comes To The Epstein Theatre This Autumn.

After a month long run at 2018’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival’s Pleasance Courtyard the hugely talented comedian and impressionist Luke Kempner has announced a U.K. tour for 2019 with his show House Of Faces. The show, directed by Ben Clark, kicks off on 26th September at Liverpool’s Epstein and culminates on 16th November at Maidenhead’s Norden Farm Centre for the Arts.

Luke Kempner said, “I’m incredibly excited to be doing my very first tour taking my many voices into the regions and meeting some lovely people!”

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Sound City Is In For A Spinn As The Liverpool Band Return Home As Part Of Spring Tour.

Back for 2019 with debut album in the works, SPINN are hitting the ground running with the announcement of their spring tour dates, including a night as part of this year’s Sound City and a date at the Liverpool Arts Club Theatre on 22nd February.

SPINN are a band at once able to give voice the frustrations of a generation while providing blissful escape into revelry.  This is the sound of young people who want to love, live and re-connect in a world of digital static, ill feeling, hard words and the murky stream of misinformation. Having clocked up millions of Spotify plays in 2018, the band capped off the year with their debut shows in Japan and a sell-out U.K. headline tour.

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Madam Renards Productions Bring A Comedy About Serial Killers To The Casa On January 31st.

However much you hate working in an office, battling the constant politics, your life tied to the machine and the spreadsheet, the bottom line, the unwanted afternoon meetings and the perpetual boredom, at least you don’t have to work in an environment where four of the world’s most notorious serial killers are spending time at the photocopier in a celestial payback for their heinous crimes on Earth.

Fred, Ted, Jack & Harold features a selection of infamous characters, the darkest of dark comedies with not one, not two but six, (SIX!) serial killers bumping into each other in this original theatre production written by acclaimed playwright Matt Fox coming to The Casa at the end of the month.

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Breakthrough Theatre Bring An Icon Of The 20th Century To Life As They Present Marilyn At The Casa This Month.

Marilyn’s story, told by Marilyn – alone in her dressing room, not the girl in that white dress with the pouting red lips and the curvaceous figure. Marilyn Monroe stripped back and bare…

An icon of the 20th Century, a woman who could command audiences and who is the subject of Breakthrough Theatre’s first professionally produced production. The show gives an in depth look behind the public persona of Marilyn Monroe and focuses on the real woman.

Who is Marilyn Monroe? One of the most iconic women in history, yet the world still asks the question, did we really know who she was? Did she?

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Real-life Gay Couple Contemplate Becoming Parents In ‘No Kids’ At The Unity Theatre This Month.

Co-artistic directors George Mann and Nir Paldi are a real-life couple trying to answer a question many of us face. As they stage their discussions around if, when and how to have children, every consideration – adoption, surrogacy, co-parenting, the environmental impact of childbirth – brings with it a succession of ethical challenges.

All set to a lively Madonna soundtrack, the couple veer between memories of their past and visions of their future as they consider who their child might become and how their own childhoods will affect their parenting. This energetic and provoking piece of physical theatre comes to Battersea Arts Centre and tours the U.K. fresh from its hit run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

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Comedian Gary Delaney Announces Warrington Date After Huge Demand.

Comedian Gary Delaney has announced a new show at Warrington after exceptional demand and an array of sold-out dates.

Britain’s leading one-liner comic has extended his new tour, Gagster’s Paradise, with even more dates for 2019.

Gary is returning to the road after a series of dates in 2018 with another onslaught of lean, expertly-crafted gaggery.

A Mock the Week regular and recent star of the new Live at the Apollo series, Gary’s shows are renowned in the business for a near-unrivalled volume of high-class jokes; expect no different from this highly acclaimed show.

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Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House Comes To The Hope Street Theatre This Month.

We live in a world where face to face communication is declining and viewing life through the filtered lens of social media is the norm. It is easy to see perfection in other’s lives and create the image of your own wonderful life in order to keep up.

We are all playing a part, putting on a show and it’s easy to forget that there’s another story hidden behind closed doors.

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