Twas the gig before xmas…in a faraway land, a magical grotto, had something planned.
You’re invited to our secret party, for elves, yourselves and ALL magical Lapland creatures. We’ll be telling stories through song, dancing and prancing with laughter, and spreading plenty of festive spirit. Ssshh, don’t tell santa! Be ready to winkle those toes and be enthralled in this unique winter tale!
Join Diana Frost and The Arctic Funkees, alongside Maximilian Cranberry, your festive storyteller and MC for this exciting and epic Christmas show.
Join Yemi Bolatiwa and her band in our theatre for an epic Christmas celebration!
Presented as part of Unity’s Christmas 2022 festival and commissioned by our Big Imaginations partners, Z Arts.
BOST Musicals are returning to the Liverpool Empire with their hilarious production of Shrek The Musical.
Based on the Oscar-winning DreamWorks Animation film, this big, bright, beautiful musical brings all the beloved characters you know from the film to life on stage and proves there’s more to the story than meets the ‘ears’.
“Once upon a time, there was a little ogre named Shrek…” and thus begins the tale of an unlikely hero, who finds himself on a life-changing journey alongside a wisecracking Donkey and a feisty princess who resists her rescue.
Throw in a short-tempered bad guy, a biscuit with an attitude and over a dozen other fairy tale misfits, and you’ve got an enchanting, all-singing, all-dancing musical comedy.
Shrek The Musical is a Tony Award-winning fairy tale adventure, featuring all new songs from Jeanine Tesori and a side-splitting book by David Lindsay-Abaire.
With fabulous costumes, scenery and puppets (including a fire-breathing dragon), this production is fantastic fun for the whole family.
This amateur production is presented by arrangement with Music Theatre International (Europe). All authorised performance materials are also supplied by MTI Europe.
BOST Musicals is an award-winning musical theatre company, who have previously brought Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Annie, Oliver! and White Christmas to the Liverpool Empire.
Artsgroupie CIC, and The Athenaeum have teamed up for a special celebration of traditional festive entertainment.
For those who enjoy that nostalgic Christmas feeling, the public are invited to a unique festive event to mark the beginning of December and the Yuletide celebrations.
A unique evening of recreation in the historical surroundings of The Athenaeum, a 225 year-old private members club, founded in 1797 by prominent Liverpudlians of the day. Feelings of festivity couldn’t be more heightened than in this setting of Roaring Twenties aesthetics at 12-18 Church Alley.
The team will present a personally selected collection of well-known poems, stories and carols to share, a cornucopia of festive joy.
Those with Scrooge-like tendencies are encouraged to stay at home
Friday 2nd December at 7:30 pm
Tickets £12
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Illustration by Ella Dalton
A dazzling and heart-warming stage show charting the careers and relationship between Hollywood mother and daughter Judy Garland and Liza Minnelli is coming to the Epstein Theatre this month.
Captivating audiences for over a decade, Judy & Liza is coming home to Liverpool, the city where the show was originally created, for a special one-off show. It plays the Epstein Theatre on Saturday 19th November at 7.30pm.
Judy & Liza is produced by Bill Elms Productions and On Song Productions; created and written by West End performer, Liverpool’s own Emma Dears who appears as Liza Minnelli; with Francis Goodhand as musical director.
Emma performs alongside Helen Sheals, who plays Judy Garland. Together they belt out timeless classics with uncanny resemblance of Judy and Liza, bursting with their unrivalled and elusive star quality.
The incredible talents of two of the biggest names in Hollywood showbusiness – mother and daughter Judy Garland and Liza Minnelli – are reunited thanks to this sensational musical experience.
This dazzling production tells the turbulent tale of the stars against the backdrop of their infamous 1964 London Palladium concert. Audiences are taken on an emotional rollercoaster journey as they discover the uncanny parallels between some of Judy and Liza’s most iconic songs and their own personal lives.
Shakespeare’s Macbeth retold by imitating the dog
It will have blood, they say
Three mysterious figures enter the stage. They talk of the hurly-burly, of thunder and lightning, and of a young couple who believe they can overthrow the old regime. They conjure the Macbeths, placing them in a dangerous new world where paranoia, betrayal and brutality rule.
Blood will have blood
Fusing live action with innovative video technology, imitating the dog bring their “breathtakingly inventive” (The Times) style of storytelling to Shakespeare’s tragic tale of ambition, destiny and downfall.
An audacious and daring retelling made for the audiences of today, Macbeth is a neon noir thriller where Shakespeare’s original language collides with startling new scenes, stunning visuals, and a powder-keg intensity.
There are additional matinee shows, check here for details.
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The hilarious comedy by Andrea Dunbar is based on the 1987 British film, and features a brilliantly funny script, impressive cast, and is bursting with all the best 80s music, taking audiences on a hilarious trip down memory lane through this cult classic.
Previous productions of the comedy at St Helens Theatre Royal proved massively popular, breaking box office records in 2011, 2012, 2015, and 2016. Rita, Sue & Bob Too! is a comedy, telling the gritty tale of love, lust, and the ultimate test of friendship.
St Helens welcomes home Michael Parr who will play the role of Bob. He will be joined by a fantastic cast including Crissy Rock as Mother and Jamie Greer as Dad; and St Helens favourites Tori Hargreaves as Michelle; Olivia Sloyan as Sue; and Kay Nicholson as Rita.
‘Crash Landing: A Theatrical Sensory Experience’ invites the audience into a transformed theatre space, to explore three distinctive and exciting worlds within ‘Planet Zoe’.
Zoe, an exuberant deaf space explorer, dramatically crash landed on a strange planet a year ago, a strange planet that she now calls home.
This performance will welcome the audience to explore it alongside her. Turning chronological narrative on its head, the audience will experience the show in a non chronological format, and will be travelling around and within the space.
There will be a sensory playground of alien inspired chaos – things to touch, smell, feel, and see, as well as experiencing digital elements such as BSL video performance, and stop animation creative caption storytelling.
There really is something for everyone on Planet Zoe!
Event duration
A window of up to 70 minutes per slot to allow a generous amount of time to move around the space
Ticket price
Pay What You Decide
Access
Audio description, BSL/English, Creative captions
It is mid-covid and 19-year-old Estelle is feeling alone and reflective. She sits in her much loved living room thinking about her entire life.. with her phone of course!
It’s her only connection to her two best friends, whose relationships will be tested over this time apart. With no one in the house and on a journey of pain, love and realisation, will she feel like this forever or will she begin to face the fears of her inner child?
With themes of social media, friendship, trauma, childhood and healing, join Unity Theatre for this powerful yet playful story as she explores the deepest parts of her head and her heart.
24, 23, 22 is a gig-theatre show about the heat of the moment, and how our impulses create ripples which become waves.
Join our cast of two, armed with hand held mics, and an onstage beat-maker, for this little earthquake of a show.
Expect scuzzy beats, stolen bags, and the reversal of the flow of time.
