Day one of rehearsal for SHAKE IT UP BABY At The Epstein Theatre, Liverpool.
World premiere 26th September for
TWO WEEKS ONLY
@EpsteinTheatre
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Oriel Chambers, Water Street, #Liverpool. Designed by Peter Ellis and completed in 1864. Considered the world’s first building to feature a metal-framed glass curtain wall, a revolutionary technique that influenced modern skyscraper construction. It had its critics on completion, though:
"a vast abortion which would be depressing were it not ludicrous" and "a kind of greenhouse architecture run mad."
.@EquityUK is pushing for "urgent reforms" to arts funding, including decade-long funding cycles for "national theatres" in every region, as part of its submission to the long-awaited review of Arts Council England (@ace_national).
Read more here 👇 thestage.co.uk/news/fund-nat…
🚆 | Moorfields station, a key gateway to Liverpool’s business district, is set for a visual and functional upgrade, with £1m worth of improvements to its main entrance unveiled today.
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📰 | 🏗️ An iconic piece of Liverpool’s engineering and architectural heritage is making a comeback as work progresses to reinstate the historic Queensway Tunnel monument at its Liverpool entrance.
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"Liverpool’s thriving theatre scene is the best antidote to negative stereotyping, says writer and director Stephen Fletcher"
theguideliverpool.com/new-sh…
Remarkable pictures of Trump and Zelensky meeting before Pope Francis’s funeral in Rome.
Zelensky’s office has called the meeting “constructive”- it’s been briefed they’ll meet again later today.
Donald Trump met Volodymyr Zelenskyy ahead of the Pope's funeral, Vatican sources have told Sky News.
The US and Ukrainian presidents had a "very productive discussion", according to a White House official.
Pictures show they met inside St Peter's Basilica with Sir Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron present and also sat down together with no one else there.
📸 Ukraine Presidential Office
Read more: trib.al/uOU49qi
Making It makes its @RoyalCourtLiv main stage debut next week - here's my review from when it was originally performed in the theatre's studio...
artscityliverpool.com/single…
ICYMI: The number of plays and musicals staged by the UK’s main subsidised theatres has fallen by nearly a third over the past decade according to research by the BBC 👇 thestage.co.uk/news/number-o…