Category Archives: Previews

Great Nights Out Aplenty At The Epstein Theatre This Summer.

As the summer starts to draw nearer, so does the exciting new season at the Epstein Theatre. The venue has already enjoyed an impressive start to the year, bringing a wide selection of music, comedy, plays, films and musicals to its audiences which is set to continue in their new season program.

Music lovers will be spoilt for choice as there is a vast array to whet their appetite over the coming months, starting on Saturday 10th May when the biggest night in Euro-Pop, the Eurovision Song Contest is screened live at the theatre. There will be food, music, karaoke, games and competitions and promises to be a night of glitz, glamour and hilarity for lovers of all things Eurovision.

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Dylan Thomas’ Classic Under Milk Wood Comes To Enchant Audiences At The Playhouse.

In the year that marks the centenary of Dylan Thomas’ birth and the 60th anniversary of the play’s British première, Clwyd Theatre Cymru’s acclaimed production of Under Milk Wood comes to the Liverpool Playhouse from Monday 19th to Saturday 24th May.

Directed by Liverpool Everyman founder Terry Hands and featuring Owen Teale, Dylan Thomas’ rapturous Under Milk Wood is a work of genius; ripe with vitality, rich in humour and populated by sublime, eccentric, enchanting characters. Both a play and a poem, written from the heart, it offers an unforgettable journey into the roots of language and the soul of Wales.

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James And Starsailor To Perform At The Echo Arena This November.

Manchester legends James make a welcome return to the live arena with a full U.K. tour spanning nine dates this November with special guests Starsailor.

Kicking off in Cambridge on the 11th November, the band will take in a night at the Liverpool Echo Arena  on November 14th before playing  two London shows, Royal Albert Hall November 19th and Brixton Academy a few days later on the 21st.

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T.V. Reality Star To Shine In Liverpool.

The finalist of Britain’s Got Talent 2013 Gabz has been going from strength to strength since being on the show with her fusion of urban ‘hip-pop,’ and has been likened to a ‘mini Alicia Keys and will now perform for one night only in  Liverpool at The Dome on June 28th.

Her first single Lighters (The One) reached number 6 in the U.K. charts, a spot in the Now 85 album, and an unforgettable performance at the Royal Albert Hall with a full orchestra, conducted by Rufus Frowde.

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Hayely Squires Play, Vera Vera Vera, Comes To The Lantern Theatre.

A young man comes back from war far away in a wooden box; he’s then glorified and called a hero. As the funeral plans are made in a small northern town in Lancashire, his siblings squabble over who he was and what they were to him.

Written by Hayely Squires, Vera Vera Vera is a black, comic piece, with themes such as drugs, violence, neglect and apathy. It asks the question of ‘what you are willing to fight for?’ Gritty, loud and taboo, this modern play will leave a lasting impression on its audience.

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Helen Forrester’s Twopence To Cross The Mersey To Return As A Brand New Stage Show.

The producers that brought you the record-breaking musical are delighted to announce the return of Helen Forrester’s Twopence to Cross the Mersey in a new format of a straight Stage Play.  Based on Forrester’s best-selling memoir, the new stage play version will premiere at Liverpool’s Epstein Theatre in March 2015 for a two-week run and tickets go on sale on Friday 2nd May at 10am.

This much loved account tells the true story of a young girl and her formerly wealthy family as they are suddenly thrown into poverty during the Great Depression of the 1930s. Leaving behind the nannies, servants and comfortable middle-class life in the South West of England, they uproot their shattered lives and choose Liverpool as the city to restart and rebuild their dreams and fortune. Unbeknown to them however, they are in for a terrible shock.

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Headlong Bring Spring Awakenings To The Playhouse Theatre.

Following last year’s smash hit production of 1984, theatre company Headlong return with a radical new version of Frank Wedekind’s ‘children’s tragedy’ Spring Awakening. Unnerving, entertaining, funny and dark, the definitive play about youth comes to the Liverpool Playhouse from Tuesday 13th to Saturday 17th May.

In a society where we are constantly bombarded by overt messages and images, writer Anya Reiss has created a startlingly modern adaptation which sharply evokes the sexual precociousness and confused raw tension of teenage life today.

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Off The Ground Theatre Bring Cotton Wool To The Unity Theatre.

Cal and Guss are teenage orphans living in Flint on the edge of the estuary and at “the end of the world”. Eighteen-year-old Cal believes they should make a new start in London but, on the night of their mother’s funeral, after a few beers, the pair think they spot her calling to them from out at sea. When they meet young runaway Harriet, their search is thrown into chaos and brother is pitted against brother in Off The Ground’s Cotton Wool which is coming to the Unity Theatre on Tuesday 20th and Wednesday 21st May.

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The Lantern Theatre To Host New Comedy, Last Train To Yuma, This May.

From the writer of the smash hit play The Salon, comes a dazzling new comedy about comedy to the Lantern Theatre, Last Train to Yuma.

As 10 year olds they won the biggest television talent show of the day and were hailed as the next big thing. Fast forward twenty years and the comedy duo Lemmon and McGarvey are now in their 30s, broke, living on past glories, and bottom of the bill in whatever dive will still hire them. Then, along comes fellow comedienne Jose, with the offer of a lifetime. But will it make them or break them?

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Roger Beaujolais And Quartet To Perform At The Atkinson Theatre For One Night Only.

On Saturday 17th May, The Capstone continues to give its audience the very best of  jazz as it welcomes jazz maestro Roger Beaujolais and Quartet to the stage for one night only.

The London based vibraphonist had originally gained recognition with 80s jump jive favourites The Chevalier Brothers whose musicianship and anarchic brand of humour took them all over the world. After a brief spell with the chart-topping Fairground Attraction, Roger formed Latin jazz outfit the Beaujolais Band releasing two top selling albums on Acid Jazz Records.

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