May - 2024

Review: Dream Team at Liverpool Philharmonic Hall ****1/2

The Liverpool Empire’s Youth Theatre are bringing a bit of Broadway to Lime Street this summer. The talented teenagers and young actors...

A national blue plaque has been unveiled at George Harrison’s birthplace in South Liverpool by his widow Olivia. The plaque, in...

One of 17th Century Spanish artist Diego Velázquez’s most famous paintings has gone on show in Liverpool as part of the National...

Pop superstar Taylor Swift is set to play three sold out shows in Liverpool this summer – and the city is creating a series of events to...

Liverpool playwright Barbara Phillips is making her main stage debut at Liverpool’s Royal Court this week with a new lottery-inspired...

The Floral Pavilion is staging a new three-day folk festival this September. Folk on the Coast, running from September 13-15 at the New...

Soon after I joined the Echo 20-odd years ago, its then editor asked me if I had any media role models. I didn’t, but felt I had to say...

A new creative director has been appointed to run Liverpool’s Everyman and Playhouse theatres. Nathan Powell succeeds Suba Das who...

Over on social media, everyone is raving about 42 Balloons – the uplifting new musical doing brisk business down the road at the Lowry....

The Bluecoat is to reconfigure its first-floor bistro to create a versatile new performance space after receiving a £680,000 grant from...