Join Liverpool Playhouse as they tell the story of Reggae music and the Windrush Generation and hear how their music took the world by storm.
Narrated by comedian John Simmit and featuring ska, rock steady, calypso, gospel, lovers rock, dancehall and Reggae played live by the JA Reggae Band.
Get ready to dance to the music of Desmond Dekker, Jimmy Cliff, Bob Marley, Lord Kitchener, Millie Small and many more.
Multi-award winning musical comedy duo (and sisters) Flo & Joan are climbing out of their pits, armed with a piano and percussion section to bring you a brand new show of their critically acclaimed songs and comedy.
Their unique, sharp-tongued style has taken them around the world with multiple sell-out tours and appearances at the Just For Laughs Festival Montreal and Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Now they are back with their biggest ever UK national tour, poking around all the classic topics of the day: over-thinking, alien lovers and fringes.
As seen on Live at the Apollo (BBC2), The Royal Variety Performance (ITV), The Russell Howard Hour (Sky), Jonathan Ross’ Comedy Club (ITV), online with over 50 million views of their viral songs, in your personal nightmares, and in ‘Alive on Stage’, their own special available worldwide on Amazon Prime.
Beauty And The Beast is sure to wow this Christmastime with a tale of love and kindness.
Audiences will go on an exciting adventure during the family friendly pantomime. This is the timeless story of Belle, a beautiful young woman who falls in love with the most unexpected of princes, who has been cursed to look like a hideous beast.
Will the Beast learn to love and be loved? Will the spell be broken in time for all to live happily ever after?
Start times vary and there are additional matinee shows. See here for full details.
Young Everyman Playhouse (YEP) are back on the Main stage at the Everyman with Soapbox.
The challenge – 6 weeks of devising, a 60-minute show, 60-seconds to say what you want on a Soapbox.
Full of passion, humour, heartache and hope Soapbox gives young people the chance to say what they want to say about where they are now.
A spellbinding tale of Sleeping Beauty. The beautiful Princess Aurora, Lucy Forrester, pricks her finger on a spindle wheel which has been cursed by the evil Carabosse at her 18th Birthday party.
Fairy Spell casts a magical spell which should break the curse. The Princess is to be awoken only by true loves true kiss. Will she find her true love and live happily ever after?
Starring, TV/Theatre Star and Liverpool Live Radio’s Breakfast presenter AARON HAYES as the hilarious Dame Dolly. Local Theatre and Radio starr LESLEY BUTLER as CARABOSSE. Liverpool’s ‘up and coming’ BRIAN COMER as Fester the Court Jester. Plus a full supporting cast and ensemble from LIVERPOOL THEATRE SCHOOL and THE PERFORMERS THEATRE SCHOOL.
With Sparkling sets and Dazzling costumes. Plus songs that will make you want to sing and dance! There is even a visit from SANTA at the end of selected shows.
Start times vary and there are also additional matinee shows, see here for full timing details.
After the last 18 months, we could all use a good laugh. Homotopia Festival has added a comedy night to their fabulous programme of theatre, visual arts and family-friendly events.
For one night only, at the Capstone Theatre, they’ve assembled some of the funniest LGBTQIA folks around, just for you, so book your tickets now.
Starring:
Rosie Jones is a regular on the TV shows Live At The Apollo, 8 Out Of 10 Cats, The Last Leg and Mock The Week. Her recent Channel 4 solo shows include Mission: Accessible, a show that aims to help disabled people plan fun-filled adventures, and the travel show Trip Hazzard: My Great British Adventure.
Sian Davies is a queer, working-class stand-up comedian from Liverpool. Her show About Time won best debut at Leicester Comedy Festival in 2019 and she won Hilarity Bites Best New Act competition in 2018.
Rosie Wilby is an award-winning comedian who has appeared on BBC Radio 4 programmes including Woman’s Hour, Saturday Live and Four Thought. Her new book The Breakup Monologues is based on her acclaimed podcast of the same name.
Kitty Messalina is a comedic triple threat – a queer woman of colour. Her unique perspectives on prejudice, promiscuity and polyamory quickly earned her a nomination as a Finalist for the NCF New Act of the Year Award 2019.
Sam Serrano is a gender fluid, dyspraxic comedian has been taking the circuit by storm. A regular in clubs across the UK Sam’s unique trademark style that is dark and self-deprecating in equal measure has seen them become a favourite with bookers.
You can book tickets for the event, at: https://www.ticketquarter.co.uk/Online/queer-as-in-funny or see the full Homotopia Festival programme at homotopia.net.
Liverpool’s very own Eithne Browne best known for her role as Chrissy Rogers in hit TV series Brookside will be headlining a new professional production of The Musical of Musicals…The Musical!
This revival will be the first professional production in the UK outside of London and the debut production for newly formed Laffan Productions which is helmed by professional actor and director Sharon Byatt.
Written by Eric Rockwell and Joanne Bogart, The Musical of Musicals…The Musical! is a musical about musicals! In this hilarious satire of musical theatre, one story becomes five delightful musicals, each written in the distinctive style of a different master of the form. June is an ingenue who can’t pay the rent and is threatened by her evil landlord.
Will the handsome leading man come to the rescue? The variations are: a Rodgers & Hammerstein version, set in Kansas in August, complete with a dream ballet; a Sondheim version, featuring the landlord as a tortured artistic genius who slashes the throats of his tenants in revenge for not appreciating his work; a Jerry Herman version, as a splashy star vehicle; an Andrew Lloyd Webber version, a rock musical with themes borrowed from Puccini; and a Kander & Ebb version, set in a speakeasy in Chicago.
Joining Eithne Brown in the cast will be Tori Hargreaves (Blood Brothers, Soho Cinders), Dominic Treacy (The History Boys), John-Paul Briss (Peaky Blinders, Mamma Mia!) and making her professional stage debut will be Amy Leek who has recently graduated from The Liverpool Theatre School.
The Musical of Musicals…The Musical! will be directed and choreographed by Sharon Byatt, with Musical Direction from Jordan Alexander (The Buddy Holly Story – UK Tour)
The Musical of Musicals…The Musical! will run at The Hope Street Theatre in Liverpool from 16 – 27 November 2021 with all performances starting at 7:30pm. (A press night is scheduled for Wednesday 17 November at 7:30pm)
The show can be booked through their website at www.hopestreettheatre.com or via telephone on 0344 561 0622
The Wife of Michael Cleary is the first piece of music theatre from composer and performer Maz O’Connor.
Inspired by traditional Irish music, her piece tells the true story of Bridget Cleary, who lived in Co. Tipperary over a century ago.
The event is held Royal Court Studio, 22 October, 8.15pm-9.45pm. See here for tickets.
In 1895, at the age of 26, Bridget was burned to death by her husband and family. They claimed they had not killed Bridget, but a changeling left in her place by fairies. News of this shocking case spread through Ireland and across the sea to England, where it was used as fodder in the Home Rule debates.
This new work explores the folklore and superstitions that were rife in an Ireland on the verge of great change. It highlights how societies overlook and enable violence against women and asks ‘how much has really changed for women in the past century?’.
Join them for a stripped-back evening of music from the show, alongside the traditional music that inspired it. This is a unique chance to preview aspects of The Wife of Michael Cleary as Maz and her team develop it towards full production.
For the first time Jim Blythe’s incredibly touching and thought-provoking play ROSSITER will be performed in Liverpool. Actor Toby Harris will bring the much loved and iconic comic actor back to life in his home city once again.
The event is held 4-6 November, 7.30pm, with a 3pm matinee show on the 5th. See here for tickets.
Leonard Rossiter born in Wavertree in 1926, was one of the leading comic actors of his generation. He was also a man of paradoxes – a committed husband who nevertheless had a long-standing affair, a working-class man who kept a fine wine cellar, an amateur actor who became a professional and a theatrical performer whose greatest fame came from his television work.
ROSSITER explores his life, his work and his motivations. Set backstage, we find Rossiter preparing for his nightly performance as Inspector Truscott in Joe Orton’s “Loot”. This was to be his final role – he died backstage, in his dressing room, of a heart condition associated with athletes. To die at the age of 57 may be seen as a tragedy: it was certainly a great loss to the theatre. To die backstage was, to an actor of Rossiter’s stature, only to be expected – he was far too prolific, far too hard-working, to have been seen dead anywhere else.
ROSSITER was first performed in 2019 in Cardiff and was due to play The Hope Street Theatre in 2020 but due to the countrywide lockdown and closure of live entertainment due to the pandemic, had to be postponed.
ROSSITER is written by Jim Blythe a former Merchant Navy radio officer, a ladies hairdresser, a business consultant, a rock musician, a truck driver, a company director, an academic and, playwright with over 11 plays to his name. Directed by David Baxter former head of Arts Active – the education, community and audience engagement unit of the National Concert Hall of Wales and the New Theatre, Cardiff, with original music by Helen Woods.
ROSSITER can be booked through their website at www.hopestreettheatre.com or via telephone on 0344 561 0622
Jean-Paul Sartre’s most famous play ‘No Exit’ performed in the Hope Street Theatre.
Three sinful strangers, condemned to Hell for all eternity, find themselves together in a locked room with nothing but each other and their own dark thoughts for company.
A brooding, philosophical piece about perspective, perception and how we treat one another – a slow burning suspense from the warped mind of French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre.