Category Archives: Previews

Lloyd Daniels To Star In Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat At The Empire Theatre.

With a crash-of-drums-and-a-flash-of-light X Factor finalist Lloyd Daniels will make his musical theatre debut in the title role of the U.K.s longest running musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. The youngest contestant in 2009’s competition, Daniels got to the final 5 out of 250,000 entrants and performed in front of 10 million television viewers. Since then he has performed to sold out arenas on a 56 date X Factor tour and released popular single Suburban Girl.

 Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is the perfect treat for all the family, it plays the Liverpool Empire from Tuesday 14th October until Saturday 18th October 2014.

Lloyd Daniels To Star In Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat At The Empire Theatre. full post

(406 words, estimated 1:37 mins reading time)

Linda Nolan To Star In Jack And The Beanstalk.

Last Christmas, Peter Pan was officially the hottest show in town, smashing box office records, and this year’s Easter panto Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs became yet another critically acclaimed success. However, things are set to get even bigger this Christmas as Regal Entertainments LTD are delighted to announce that family favourite, Jack and the Beanstalk – the biggest panto of them all – is set to take centre stage at St Helens Theatre Royal in a colossal Christmas show, running Friday 5th December 2014 to Sunday 11th January 2015.

Linda Nolan To Star In Jack And The Beanstalk. full post

(788 words, estimated 3:09 mins reading time)

Liverpool Pride Announces First Acts For 2014 Event.

Liverpool Pride are delighted to announce the first wave of acts confirmed for this year’s event. The newly ticketed sites for Liverpool Pride 2014 which include the Waterfront Stage, Stanley Street Stage and the Garlands and G-Bar Stage will play host to some great entertainment at this year’s ‘Glam Fairy Tales’ themed Pride event on Saturday 2nd August. The first confirmed acts include Katy B, and Sonia, with many more acts announced soon.

Liverpool Pride Announces First Acts For 2014 Event. full post

(523 words, estimated 2:06 mins reading time)

Then And Now, Theatre Review. Gregson Institute, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision rating 71/2/10

Cast: Darren Pritchard, Helen Turner, Paul Taylor, Zoe Vaux.

Writer: Tom Critch.

Time has a habit of playing tricks on you. What can seem, through the eyes of a 17 year old a bedroom like palace with more space than you know how to fill, 26 years later you wonder when seeing that room again, just how you got every possession you owned in the cramped, confined plot you called a bedroom. What happens though when you allow your eyes access to time and consent it to see things that aren’t there, that somehow accepts time to play a trick on your perception of the scene playing out in front of you? For those who made their way to the Gregson Institute, Tom Critch’s play, Then and Now, did exactly that and for such a young writer, Tom Critch nailed it on the head with such accuracy it positively glowed in the sparks that followed.

Then And Now, Theatre Review. Gregson Institute, Liverpool. full post

(386 words, estimated 1:33 mins reading time)

Guys And Dolls Brings Plenty Of Mayhem And Toe-Tapping Numbers To The Theatre Royal.

After last year’s sell-out production of Joseph and his Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, The Royal T. Drama Academy is back with another dazzling amateur youth performance with a toe-tapping production; Guys and Dolls. Promising to delight audiences across St Helens, the iconic Broadway musical opens on Thursday 7th until Saturday 9thAugust, providing three fantastic nights of comical entertainment suitable for the whole family at St Helens Theatre Royal.  This fabulous production will feature all of the Broadway show’s smash hit numbers including Luck Be A Lady, Sit Down You’re Rocking The Boat, If I Were A Bell, and the toe-tapping title song, Guys and Dolls.

Guys And Dolls Brings Plenty Of Mayhem And Toe-Tapping Numbers To The Theatre Royal. full post

(379 words, estimated 1:31 mins reading time)

The Rock ‘N’ Roll Panto Returns Home To The Everyman Theatre With Little Red Riding Hood.

The legendary rock ‘n’ roll panto will return to the Everyman this Christmas following three years at the Playhouse while the Hope Street venue has been redeveloped. This year regular writers Sarah A. Nixon and Mark Chatterton have adapted Little Red Riding Hood so expect a big bad wolf and a gallant woodsman along with the live band, plenty of belly laughs and more than a few surprises.

The Rock ‘N’ Roll Panto Returns Home To The Everyman Theatre With Little Red Riding Hood. full post

(414 words, estimated 1:39 mins reading time)

Decade Revealed As Support To Lower Than Atlantis This July.

DECADE have been revealed as main support to Lower Than Atlantis on their July run of intimate shows up and down the U.K. The announcement was made by Radio One D.J., Zane Lowe, and follows the success of Decade’s recent (and first ever) headline tour last month. The tour will start at Liverpool’s 02 Academy on Hotham Street on July 14th where the band will headline the evening.

Decade Revealed As Support To Lower Than Atlantis This July. full post

(178 words, estimated 43 secs reading time)

Tell Tale Theatre Announce George Orwell Classic Will Be Next Production.

Tell Tale Theatre are delighted to announce their latest production will be a theatrical adaptation of George Orwell’s classic Animal Farm; an allegorical and dystopian novel, published in England in 1945.

It would be hard to over-estimate the lasting impact of Orwell’s fantastic setting of a ‘proletarian revolution’ in an English farm where the animals – led by the pigs – organize their collective strength to overthrow the humans, but end up with another dictatorship.

Tell Tale Theatre Announce George Orwell Classic Will Be Next Production. full post

(398 words, estimated 1:36 mins reading time)

Ray Quinn And Claire Sweeney In This Year’s Liverpool Empire Theatre Pantomime.

The Liverpool Empire Theatre and First Family Entertainment are delighted to reveal an exciting cast announcement for Aladdin at the Empire this Christmas.

Dancing on Ice Champion of Champions, Ray Quinn is returning to the Empire to play the principal role, Aladdin this Christmas heading up an all-Liverpool cast including Claire Sweeney, Leanne Campbell and Pete Price.

It’s been a busy year for Ray. After being crowned Dancing on Ice Champion of Champions, he went on to perform in a sell-out ice skating tour but is looking forward to another Christmas at home.

Ray Quinn And Claire Sweeney In This Year’s Liverpool Empire Theatre Pantomime. full post

(427 words, estimated 1:42 mins reading time)

St Helens Theatre Royal Turns Up The Heat In June.

After a music filled month of May, St Helens Theatre Royal are aiming for a red hot start to summer with their varied programme of events. The month kicks off with a hypnotic evening with The Tranceformer followed by a Night of Queen courtesy of The Bohemians. Debra Stephenson and Steven Pinder star in the hilarious and hottest production of the year, The Last of the Red Hot Lovers and on the summer solstice, spirit medium Derek Acorah returns to the Theatre Royal with his new 2014 show.

St Helens Theatre Royal Turns Up The Heat In June. full post

(638 words, estimated 2:33 mins reading time)