Ever wondered what really happens behind the sequins and smiles on TV dance spectaculars? Strictly Sickly, which comes to Liverpool's Capstone Theatre this week, brings to life the rumbas an…
Owing as much to RuPaul's Drag Race as it does to Coronation Street, The Ruby Slippers is a new show about love, identity and following your dreams, with a true northern warmth and a big gay…
At the End of Everything Else is the company's second show, a follow on from its debut Something Very Far Away. It's 'carbon friendly', which means most of the electricity required is produc…
"The play explores issues of identity and prejudice in the LGBT community " with outrageous drag queens, of course," explains one of The Ruby Slippers' writers and stars, Emma Culshaw.
Natalie Casey made her name on TV shows including teen soap Hollyoaks and sitcom Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps, but on stage is where you’re more likely to find her these d…
From rags to riches, from Liverpool to London, from Nabzys to Nandos… The Rise and Fall of The Hamburger Queen is a one-woman comedy show on at The Unity Theatre as part of Homotopia Festi…
Nina - A Story About Me and Nina Simone, running at Liverpool's Unity Theatre until 29 October 2016, is without doubt a tale that needs to be told and deserves to be heard. Performer Josette…
Happy Hour is the seventh show from Liverpool-based physical theatre company Tmesis, and continues in the vein of 2015's That's Amore " four performers on a wry, sideways rollercoaster ride …
Liverpool theatre group What We Did Next return next week with the North West premiere of the off-Broadway musical Three Sides. Written by Grant Olding " the composer of smash hit One Man, T…
In an era of political disillusionment and generational divides, has politics forgotten the people it represents? And, what price do we put on knowledge?
Well then " clowning, bouffon and dark comedy are all in the mix in Cabaret From The Shadows, an intriguing new performance in the intriguing new performance space of the Invisible Wind Fact…
The Secret Life of Mia is a promenade performance aiming to its audience on an intimate journey into the secret world of women starving for beauty. It runs from 6 to 10 October in Liverpool …
Ghost hunter and time traveller Thaddeus Bent began life as a recurring character in the Legion of Doom's monthly Comedy Knights at Mello Mello. These days, like that dear departed venue, th…
Shake it up Baby is a new Liverpool-based romantic comedy, performed as part of the Beatles-themed Ticket to Write festival last weekend. And there was definitely a sense it is just the begi…
The 'extraordinary' untold stories of the Chinese Labour Corps will be unearthed in Liverpool as part of an ongoing campaign to shed light on a forgotten part of British and Chinese history.…
Suzan Holder is the writer of Shake It Up Baby, one of the plays in this year's Ticket To Write festival coming to the Unity Theatre in Liverpool next week. The festival's artistic director …
"People who want 'traditional' Shakespeare " I don't know what that is," laughs Nick Bagnall. "I like to think if Shakespeare was here today he'd be using all he possibly could to be telling…