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Aug 1 2008
TICKETS are available for the production of The Winter’s Tale at Birkenhead Park on the nights of Friday and Saturday, August 29-30, – and weekend matinee....
Apr 4 2008
A GROUP of young Liverpool actors have been chosen to tread the boards with an internationally acclaimed theatre company as part of a global 24-hour celebration of the work of Shakespeare....
Feb 19 2008
IF WILY old Will Shakespeare himself had man- aged to get a seat for this sparkling production of one of his wackiest com- edies, he would surely have been as enthused as the audience at this latest interpretation by director Tim Baker....
Nov 14 2007
A CELEBRITY-backed plan to recreate a Shakespearean theatre on Merseyside was today rejected by lottery bosses....
Oct 20 2007
A SHAKESPEAREAN theatre in Merseyside could be recreated after winning a place on a final shortlist for lottery funding....
Sep 28 2007
WHEN last in Liverpool, actor Sean Foley was on stage wiggling his glasses and catching invisible balls in a paper bag. Foley was the Eric Morecambe half of the Morecambe and Wise act in The Play What I Wrote....
Sep 12 2007
ACCORDING to one observer: “The most persistent sound which reverberates through men’s history is the beating of war drums”. It was ever thus....
Aug 17 2007
THERE can be few more splendid settings for Shakespeare’s Macbeth than Liverpool Cathedral. Its Gothic vaults give this new production, the first ever in a Liverpool Shakespeare Festival, an epic feel....
Aug 3 2007
A new company is launching Liverpool’s first Shakespeare Festival. Philip Key reports...