Casa theatre

Columbia, Tennessee. 1946. James Stephenson, an African-American naval veteran of the Second World War enters into a fracas with the owner of a radio repair store who mistakenly sold on James’ mother’s radio to the store owner’s father.…

Punch and Judy Versus the Devil came to the Casa Theatre on Thursday 7th February with the first of its three night run, transforming the classic puppet show into a stage production with actors and adult themes. As the final offering of…

Burjesta Theatre, resident theatre company of the Casa on Hope Street, and organisers of Theatre at the Casa, one of Liverpool's most celebrated fringe theatre venues, are bringing their own production, a modern reworking of Punch and Judy,…

Marilyn.  A name that needs no introduction. A 'cultural icon' and world-famous actor whose life grew intertwined with the rich and powerful in Hollywood and beyond. A troubled individual whose death by barbiturate overdose at the age of…

An unscary ghost, an ancient aristocratic home, and an American family of 'simple Republican values' with 50,000 shares in the Colgate company - a combination that conspires into Oscar Wilde's first novella, 'The Canterville Ghost', a…

Whittingham 1918 came to the Casa Theatre on Tuesday 30th October with a truly remarkable show about lives lived and lost at Whittingham Asylum near Preston. Written by Eric Northey and directed by Terence Mann, Whittingham 1918 is a…

The Casa Theatre, one of Hope Street's newest fringe theatre venues, brings an extraordinary play to Liverpool on 26th October with Skitzoid Productions' Game Over: The Play.  An immersive comedy about the challenging subject of suicide,…

The Casa Theatre was packed to the brim on Tuesday 25th September for Cammell Lairds 37 - The Truth, Mike Howl's extraordinary tale of the 1984 Cammell Laird's strike and occupation, which culminated in the imprisonment of 37 striking ship…

Last Friday I was fortunate enough to witness a performance of the sell-out show 'The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists' by Merlin Productions at the Casa Theatre. Directed by Paul Strange and produced by Gerard Fitzpatrick Howkins, with a…

George Orwell called The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists 'a book that everyone should read', a modern classic that was nearly lost forever. When its author, who went by the pen name of Robert Tressell, finished the work in 1910 and had it…