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Apr 18 2008
SO, WHAT ever happen- ed to Alan Bleasdale? The Liverpool writer whose television series and stage plays were always an event has been strangely absent from both areas in recent years....
Apr 18 2008
EMMA Pinch talks to Joe McGann about returning to the Liverpool Empire stage...
Apr 17 2008
YOU can understand why theatre people love Samuel Beckett. They must adore to play his larger-than-life characters, tackle his nonsense dialogue and play with all the theatrical trickery he gives them....
Apr 17 2008
IT WAS the Vicar of Dibley meets Ab Fab. Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders on their farewell tour, called Still Alive, happily illustrated their on-screen and on-stage chemistry....
Apr 11 2008
DAWN French tells Emma Pinch about ending the double act that made her famous and the new chapter in her life...
Apr 10 2008
EIGHTY years after it was first staged, Bertolt Brecht’s musical, The Threepenny Opera, will be getting a makeover in Liverpool tonight....
Apr 9 2008
IT WILL be one of the most expensive shows ever staged by the Birkenhead Operatic Society, costing an estimated £120,000....
Apr 7 2008
AS CONTROVERSY and incident follows the Olympic Torch on its way to Beijing, a British stage writer has just put the finishing touches to a remarkable musical show that takes a parallel course to the official torch, but with the emphasis on global warming....
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....
Mar 28 2008
HOW do you cope when your first stage role is the lead in Romeo and Juliet? Philip Key finds out...