January - 2025

Review: The Merchant of Venice 1936 at Liverpool Playhouse ****

Veteran Liverpool broadcaster and author Spencer Leigh has celebrated his 80th birthday with the publication of a special new memoir. The...

In The Merchant of Venice 1936, at the Liverpool Playhouse this week, Tracy-Ann Oberman plays Shylock as a steely Jewish matriarch facing...

Families are funny things, and their dynamics can be incomprehensible to outsiders – and indeed sometimes to family members too. These...

The smash hit stage version of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird is coming to Liverpool – but fans of the classic will have to wait...

In recent years the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic has become the Leeds International Piano Competition’s house band, accompanying the...

A new celebration of the life and music of John Lennon will visit Merseyside venues this spring as part of its inaugural UK tour....

An exhibition of work by John Moores Painting Prize winner Graham Crowley will go on show at the Walker Art Gallery this spring. Graham...

Liverpool International Jazz Festival returns to the city this month with a packed programme of gigs, film and visual arts. The...

Fiddler on the Roof comes to the Liverpool Empire this September as part of a national tour. The acclaimed Regents Park Open Air Theatre...

Bat Out of Hell has a convoluted origin story. Back in the 1960s the late Jim Steinman conceived a musical set among a tribe of wild...