Category Archives: Previews

Thea Gilmore To Perform At The Epstein Theatre On Sunday 8th June.

The Epstein Theatre are delighted to welcome acclaimed songstress Thea Gilmore who will be performing a selection of hits from her extensive repertoire including Juliet and Mainstream on Sunday 8th June.

Now 15 years since the release of her debut album Burning Dorothy, Thea returns to the limelight with her 14th studio album set for release later this year. A truly unique and gifted artist and songwriter, she developed a talent for writing in the most eloquent way from an early age, introduce music into the mix and soon certain corners of the British music press were describing her as ‘one of the few world class female singer-songwriters Britain has ever produced’.

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Tina Malone To Star In The Curious Disappearance Of Mr. Foo This June.

An Irish Catholic reflects on lost love, her Chinese fiancé repatriated by force, 1940’s Liverpool, racism and betrayal.

The Curious Disappearance of Mr. Foo, which comes to The Unity Theatre on Saturday 21st June, focuses on the effect a forced repatriation of Chinese seamen from Liverpool in 1946 had on families and friends of the men, who were rounded up by the UK government over a 2-day period and immediately deported, unbeknown to their loved ones. Details of the repatriation only came to light when an official report was released 50 years later.

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Holly Johnson To Perform In Liverpool This October.

HOLLY JOHNSON, former Frankie Goes To Hollywood frontman and songwriter, today announces his Dancing With No Fear solo tour: Unleashed from the Pleasuredome, appearing in the U.K. this October and with a night in the Liverpool Echo Two on Friday 2th October for the fans in his home city.

The October tour will mark the 30th anniversary of the release of Frankie Goes To Hollywood’s 3x platinum debut album Welcome To The Pleasuredome which reached number 1 in October 1984. The album release followed the group’s controversial debut single Relax, and follow-up Two Tribes, both of which hit the number 1 spot in the U.K. single charts in the same year.

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Thrilling Tale Of Apartheid-Era South Africa Comes To The Playhouse Studio With Sizwe Banzi Is Dead.

The Playhouse Studio is set to transport audiences to apartheid-era South Africa with Sizwe Banzi is Dead, a thrilling tale of identity and freedom. Directed by former Everyman and Playhouse Director in Residence Matthew Xia, this momentous, play comes to the Studio following a sell-out run at London’s Young Vic from Tuesday 10th to Saturday 14th June.

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The Unity Theatre To Host Four New Plays As Part Of This Year’s L.A.A.F.

As part of this year’s Liverpool Arab Arts Festival, The Unity Theatre is hosting four gripping new plays that have been written by the best U.K. and Middle East’s writers. The four plays, You Don’t Have To Be American To Get Laid But It Helps, Advice to Iraqi Women, The Worst Cook In The West Bank and The Reception are also being performed by an all-female cast.

Liverpool Arab Arts Festival was founded in 1998 by Liverpool Arabic Centre and the Bluecoat to provide Arab arts and culture in Liverpool. Over the years this partnership has grown to include most of the major arts institutions in the city including Picturehouse at FACT, National Museums Liverpool and Liverpool Philharmonic Hall as well as artists and community organisations.

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Liverpool Pride 2014 Tickets On Sale From Today.

Following the recent announcement that Liverpool Pride 2014 will now be a part ticketed event, organisers have confirmed that tickets for this year’s festival on Saturday 2nd August will go on sale from today and with a limited number of early bird tickets on sale at just £5.

This year marks the 5th anniversary for Liverpool Pride, which was established in 2010 and takes place each year to coincide with the date of murdered gay teenager Michael Causer 6 years ago. The theme for this year’s event is Glam Fairy Tales, with those attending encouraged to come dressed in their most wild and wonderful interpretations of the theme.

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Acclaimed New Drama, Pests, Comes To Ignite The Playhouse Studio

Following the success of her award-winning play Mogadishu, playwright Vivienne Franzmann returns to Liverpool with another explosive drama Pests. Following the fractious relationship of two sisters, and with sell-out performances at the London Royal Court, Clean Break Theatre Company come to the Playhouse Studio from Wednesday 28th to Saturday 31st May.

Pink loves Rolly. Rolly loves Pink and Pink loves getting bombed off her face. Sisters from the same nest; both trapped in a tiny rotting world. Both cuffed to a past that refuses to release them. One wants out. The other needs her in. Trouble is that when you complete each other, you’re nothing on your own.

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War Correspondents To Come To The Unity Theatre.

While reporting the outbreak of war, a journalist is held at gunpoint, caught in the no-man’s land between two nations.

War Correspondents is the second song theatre performance created by composer Helen Chadwick and choreographer Steven Hoggett (co-founder of Frantic Assembly and Oliver award winner for Black Watch) following the success of Dalston Songs, commissioned by the Royal Opera House. Helen and creative associate Miriam Nabarro have interviewed journalists covering many conflicts, including those in Afghanistan, Bosnia, Chechnya, DRC, Iraq and Liberia. War Correspondents is on at the Unity Theatre on Friday 13th and Saturday 14th June.

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Culture Club To Perform In Liverpool With Alison Moyet Announced As Special Guest.

There is not a country in the world that doesn’t know the names of Boy George and Culture Club.  Grammy Award winners Culture Club sold in excess of 100 million singles and over 50 million albums, and were one of the biggest pop bands of the 1980s.  They achieved seven straight Top 10 hits in the U.K., nine Top 10 singles in the U.S.A. and nine Top 20 singles in Australia.  They had number 1 singles in over a dozen countries and multi-platinum album sales across the world, and were first group since The Beatles to have three Top Ten hits in America from a debut album.  They were also the first group in music history to have an album certified diamond in Canada.  The band consisted of Mikey Craig (bass guitar), Roy Hay (guitar and keyboards), Jon Moss (drums and percussion) and flamboyant front man Boy George (lead vocals.)

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Joseph Heller’s Seminal Classic Catch 22 To Come To The Playhouse Theatre.

For the first time in the U.K., Joseph Heller’s seminal World War II novel Catch-22 comes to the stage. Explosive, subversive, wild and funny, after 50 years the strength of Heller’s story is undiminished, and his own adaptation is brought to the Liverpool Playhouse by Northern Stage from Tuesday 27th to Saturday 31st May.

Set in the closing months of World War II, a bombardier named Yossarian is trapped in the absurd world of an inescapable war. Frantic and furious as thousands of people he has never met try to kill him, Yossarian is stalked and thwarted by the merciless Catch-22.

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