Liverpool’s St George’s Hall is set to present a week-long series of tours giving visitors a powerful and emotional flashback experience of The Great War. From Monday 10th to Sunday 16th March local historian Frank Carlyle will guide visitors through the depths of the Hall telling Liverpool stories of the First World War. From the triumphant passionate start to the realities of war, blasting away romantic notions as the horrors of modern conflict came to the forefront. The historical talks will be interlinked with promenade performances by some of Liverpool’s best-loved actors.
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The Everyman Theatre Bursts Back To Life With Gemma Bodinetz’s Production Of Twelfth Night.
The Everyman is back and bursts into life with Artistic Director Gemma Bodinetz’s production of Twelfth Night from the 8th March to 5th April. The production sees the return of two members of the celebrated Everyman Company of 1974 with Nicholas Woodeson playing Malvolio and Matthew Kelly as Sir Toby Belch. They will be joined by an ensemble of talent that includes Natalie Dew as Olivia, Jodie McNee and Luke Jerdy as twins Viola and Sebastian.
Playhouse Studio Spring/Summer Season Announced With Two More Big Stories On An Intimate Scale.
The ever-popular Playhouse Studio will play host to two productions this spring as the intimate space in the Playhouse rafters continues to provide big stories on a small scale. Former Everyman and Playhouse director-in-residence Matthew Xia is back with a production of Sizwe Banzi is Dead from the 10th to the 14th June, while Mogadishu writer Vivienne Franzmann’s Pests comes directly to the Studio following its première at Manchester Royal Exchange at 28th to 31st May.
Rewind the 80s Festival Announce Third Weekend Of Geat Music.
Rewind the 80s Festival – the world’s biggest 80s music festival, is back with three U.K. festivals during summer 2014.
The addition of an 80s festival in the North-West is a welcome surprise from the organisers who have put on blistering and exciting shows in Scotland and Henley-Upon Thames for the last few years. With Rewind North coming for the first time to audiences, the same electric like energy and heady mix of artists and musicians will be on show at Capesthorne Hall in Cheshire on Saturday 30th August and Sunday 31st August 2014.
Duckegg Theatre Company Bring Haley Cox’s New Play To The Liverpool Actor’s Studio.
Duckegg Theatre Company are touring their brand new family musical, Leave Hitler To Me, Lad, by award winning playwright Haley Cox and L.A. composer Ben Pringle (previous credits include Buffy the Vampire Slayer), designed by the critically acclaimed Barney George.
The show will visit The Liverpool Actors Studio Theatre on 4th March. During its premiere run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival the piece was named “…the most sensitive and well-written family show at the festival” by Broadway Baby. The show began its life as a result of a Research and Development week supported by Arts Council England. The cast mixes four professional actors (including Spotlight Prize nominee James Mountain and Kivan Dene of Emmerdale fame) with six of the company’s youth theatre members. Sean Green of the Bill Kenwright Company leads musical direction of this ambitious show.
St Helens Theatre Royal Rolls Out The Red Carpet for Its Spring/Summer Season.
St Helens Theatre Royal are putting out the red carpet as a number of familiar faces take centre stage in what is set to be a star-studded spring/summer 2014 season. From chart topping singers, to award-winning actors alongside some of the U.K.’s best loved entertainers, 2014 is set to be a year to remember and one not to be missed!
EastEnder’s Star, Clare Perkins, To Show How To Be Immortal At The Unity Theatre.
“Sometimes people fade with time, like the smell on a shirt. Sometimes they stay forever”.
On Friday 7th and Saturday 8th February, The Unity Theatre is hosting the theatre company Penny Dreadful and their new production, How To Be Immortal.
Henrietta Lacks died in West Virginia in 1951, but her cells are still alive, dividing endlessly in laboratories all over the world. It’s taken Deborah years to come to terms with her mother’s death. Now she’s got to deal with her immortality.
Monkeywood Bring Sarah McDonald Hughes’ New Play, Flesh, To Ellesmere Port.
The renowned Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester have joined forces with theatre company Monkeywood to bring their new play FLESH to Ellesmere Port on February 5th. FLESH is a brand new play by Sarah McDonald Hughes, nominated for a prestigious Manchester Theatre Award.
Based on the real experiences of young parents in Manchester, FLESH is a love story about growing up. Set in Wythenshawe, the story follows two young people as they become parents for the first time.
The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra Performs The Music Of Ian Broudie/The Lightning Seeds This April.
This once-only event celebrates the music of Liverpool-born singer, songwriter, musician and record producer Ian Broudie, in arrangements prepared especially for performance by the Lightning Seeds with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Clark Rundell, and special guests.
The Lightning Seeds were formed by Broudie in the late 1980s and scored an early hit with the song, Pure; they have produced six albums to date, and have enjoyed widespread mainstream success. Their football anthem, Three Lions, has twice been at number one in different versions recorded with Frank Skinner and David Baddiel.
Liverpool’s Little Atoms To Interview Jamie Carragher And Lord Heseltine As Part Of Their In Conversation Series.
Little Atom Productions is delighted to announce the next two guests in the successful Liverpool ‘In Conversation’ Series.
Continuing the signature format, which sees guests who are natives of or have a strong connection to the city interviewed live on stage and their five favourite pieces of music performed by five separate live acts, the next two guests in the series are both hugely important to the city but for very different reasons; Liverpool F.C. legend Jamie Carragher and ex-‘Minister for Merseyside’, Lord Michael Heseltine.