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Dancers from the Henri Oguike Dance Company

The best of British dance for all to see

LEADING figures in the dance world will begin arriving in Liverpool tomorrow for the biggest event in the British dance calendar. Read

Arts and Entertainment

Key art events

THEATRE: Seven short plays in one night from The New Works, a Liverpool organisation that concentrates on new writing. It features four actors, two directors and several playwrights, and, it is hoped, will discover the writers of tomorrow. Tonight, 8pm, Unity Theatre; £3 (concessions £2). 0151 709 4988. Read

Bekah Sloan and Filippo Fiori from the play, The Dark Room, at the Unity Theatre

Theatre Review: The Dark Room, Unity Theatre, Liverpool

THE Liverpool theatre group Ullaloom has carved out a name for itself for ghoulish theatre, and The Dark Room could certainly give its audiences sleepless nights. Read

Three Sisters on Hope Street at the Liverpool Everyman - Suzan Sylvester (May), Samantha Robinson (Rita) and Anna Francolini (Gertie)

Theatre: Three Sisters on Hope Street brings classic into a new era

THE story-line may be familiar, but the rest of the play is pure Liverpool. Philip Key reports Read

The Blind Boys of Alabama

Music: Blind faith that stayed true to Gospel

Philip Key talks to the last surviving member of the original Five Blind Boys of Alabama Read

Rejects Revenge perform, Here Be Monsters, at the Unity Theatre

Theatre Review: Here Be Monsters, Unity Theatre, Liverpool

IS IT possible to send a steam-powered spaceship to the moon? Dr Frederick Watt believes it can be done. But, then, in Here Be Monsters, he is living in the Edwardian age when writers like HG Wells imagined scientists could do all sorts. Read

The outside of Tate Liverpool gallery

Special artists win top award

A SEFTON special school has two award-winning pieces of artwork hanging in the Tate Liverpool. Read

200 taking part in Sing Live Merseyside

SOME 200 singers will take to the Philharmonic Hall stage in Liverpool next month to celebrate pop music of the 1960s and 1970s. Read

Bekah Sloan and Filippo Fiori from the play, The Dark Room, at the Unity Theatre

Mix of horror and magic at Unity Theatre

IT HAS been two years since the Liverpool theatre company Ullaloom, which specialises in frightening people, put the wind up local audiences. Read

Anima by Momentum at the Unity Theatre, Liverpool

Momentum theatre company are to premiere Anima at the Unity, Liverpool

WITH their production of Tmesis, Yorgos Karamalegos and Elinor Randle created one of Liverpool’s most amazing theatre pieces. Read

blood brothers.

Key Events

MUSICAL: Willy Russell’s classic, Blood Brothers, enters its final week in the city. Now in its 25th year, the musical still has the power to hold audiences with humour, drama and tragedy. Tonight, 7.30pm, Liverpool Empire. Tickets range £15.50-£28.50. Until Saturday. 0870 607 7575. Read

Liverpool playwright Willy Russell

Courting favour with Willy Russell

YOU might think that Willy Russell’s life is a problem-free one. He is, after all, one of Britain’s most successful playwrights, with plays produced worldwide and his musical, Blood Brothers, currently packing them in at the Liverpool Empire. Alas, like anyone else, Mr Russell does have problems. Read

Rejects Revenge perform, Here Be Monsters, at the Unity Theatre

Any hope for the future? Watch this space

AlLTHOUGH their very existence is under threat, Rejects Revenge are ploughing ahead with a an exciting new production. Philip Key reports Read

John C. Reilly from the film, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story

Film Review: Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story


IT IS not always easy to laugh at a film comedy when you are the only person in the cinema, as I was for the Liverpool press show of this American satire. Read

Key Events

RUDI LICKWOOD is generally reckoned to be Britain’s top black club comedian, an accolade earned by hard work and undoubted charm. He has performed all over the world from Singapore to Dubai, and entertained troops at various overseas locations. Read

Artist Tom Palin at the opening of his exhibition at the View 2 Gallery in Mathew Street

Exhibition: Tom Palin, View Two Gallery, Mathew Street

TOM PALIN is an artist who knows his own mind. There was a time when he painted huge canvases under the impression, he says, that bigger made the work more important. Read

Arts and Entertainment

Theatre Review: Madonna and Me, Actors Studio, Seel Street

IT MAY be titled Madonna and Me, but Tommy Kearney’s play is really about friendship, and how brittle it can be. Read

Liverpool comic actor, Ricky Tomlinson

More by-passes in my show than in an AA road map, says heart op funnyman Tomlinson

JUST weeks after a life-saving heart operation, Liverpool actor/comedian Ricky Tomlinson is back on the road facing 40 concert dates. Read

New title for one of Liverpool’s favourite novels

ONE of Liverpool’s best-known novels is getting a name change – after 128 years. The classic, Her Benny, will be renamed Our Benny for its stage appear- ance in the city this year. Read

Brothers tune in for a rare performance

Music: Brothers tune in for a rare performance

LIVERPOOL musician Rob Fennah was just 15 when he did his first gig, a date in Anglesey with the schoolboy band New Attraction. Read

Author Profile

Arts Editor Philip Key spends his week attending and reporting on the numerous live arts events in Liverpool. Plays the banjo ukulele, collects classic true crime books and performs (badly) magic tricks. Tel: 0151 472 2499

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