LIVERPOOL EVERYMAN & PLAYHOUSE THEATRES

The internationally celebrated Northern Broadsides return to the Everyman with their highly charged performance style and charismatic cast of actors, for a new production of Euripides’s tale of Greek tragedy, Medea, adapted by poet Tom Paulin on Tuesday 23 to Saturday 27 February.

	4.3.10 Landmark satirical musical Oh What a Lovely War comes to Liverpool Playhouse Oh What a Lovely War was a landmark satirical musical when it graced the London stage in 1963. Now, a new production from Northern Stage reinvents this groundbreaking classic to show that it has lost none of its power and urgency when it arrives at the Liverpool Playhouse on Tuesday 30 March to Saturday 3 April.

	24.2.10 Exhilarating international double bill from National Dance Company Wales comes to Liverpool Playhouse As part of LEAP 2010 National Dance Company Wales bring New Works, an innovative double bill from leading figures Itzik Galili and Andonis Foniadakis featuring ten international dancers, to the Liverpool Playhouse on Friday 19th and Saturday 20th March.

	23.2.10 Northern Broadsides bring boisterous medieval pilgrimage to the Liverpool Playhouse For a second time this season, following Medea at the Everyman, the ever popular Northern Broadsides bring their own invigorating style of storytelling to our theatres. The timeless and well loved The Canterbury Tales runs at the Playhouse from 23 to 27 March.

	15.2.10 Kneehigh’s Hansel & Gretel is a trip into the woods for children and brave adults everywhere Kneehigh Theatre come to the Everyman for the first time with a new production of Hansel & Gretel, which will delight children and brave adults everywhere with their special brand of wit, charm, and sensational story telling between Tuesday 16 March and Saturday 3 April.

	3.2.10 Extraordinary one man show Morecambe is must-see for all fans of classic British comedy One of Britain's best loved comics, Eric Morecambe brought sunshine to the hearts of everyone who saw him perform. The amazing life and works of one of comedy’s best known duos has been turned into a one man show, Morecambe, which comes to the Liverpool Playhouse from Monday 8 to Saturday 13 March.

	27.1.10 Wonderful Welsh eccentric Hugh Hughes returns to Everyman with new story show 360 Acclaimed comedy festival favourite Hugh Hughes tackles life’s great challenges – and a climb up Snowdon – to share a new insight into his wonderful world with his wide-eyed, warm and welcoming humour in a new story show, 360, at the Liverpool Everyman on Thursday 4 to Saturday 6 March.

	22.1.10 Everyman to host final ever Liverpool performances of Spike Theatre’s Hoof! Hope Street-based international physical theatre company Spike Theatre returns to The Everyman for its final Liverpool performances of improvisational smash – Hoof! on Friday 19 and Saturday 20 February and this time they are bringing the baby as well… Hoof Jnr!

	22.1.10 Liverpool Everyman welcome back Northern Broadsides with Euripides’ Medea, adapted by Tom Paulin The internationally celebrated Northern Broadsides return to the Everyman with their highly charged performance style and charismatic cast of actors, for a new production of Euripides’s tale of Greek tragedy, Medea, adapted by poet Tom Paulin on Tuesday 23 to Saturday 27 February.

	19.1.10 Lizzie Nunnery announced as Finalist for major international playwriting award *Liverpool writer Lizzie Nunnery’s new play The Swallowing Dark,* has been chosen as one of the ten Finalists for the prestigious Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.**

	18.1.10 Playhouse season opens with spectacular fright night Ghost Stories, a mix of the macabre and the terrifying Spine-tingling new play Ghost Stories, created by Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman for a co-production between Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse and Lyric Hammersmith, will open the new season at the Playhouse from Thursday 4 – Saturday 20 February.