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Liverpool Arab Arts Festival reveals 2025 dates and first events

Stabbings, poisonings, gang warfare….400 years after his own death, Shakespeare proves it’s plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose when...

Matthew Bourne’s work has always been inspired by the silver screen – not least The Red Shoes, which he brought to the Empire 12 months...

What do you do when everything that defines you – as an individual and a community – suddenly threatens to disappear? It’s a question...

Liverpool writer Joanne Sherryden’s bittersweet tragi-comedy was last staged at the Unity five years ago. And like its fellow theatre in...

Roll up roll up for Northern Broadsides’ latest visit to Liverpool, with a new production – a fresh version of Dickens’ Hard Times – and...

This week appears to have been a warm walk down memory lane for the prolific polymath – and prolific Tweeter – Stephen Hough. Back in the...

When Nina – a story about me and Nina Simone (to give it its full title) was first devised, there were plans to stage it in the...

The Liverpool Phil actively encourages its players to progress their own musical interests and ambitions outside the confines of the...

On its first visit to Liverpool in 2014, the equivalent of one in seven of the city’s population flocked to the Empire to see Wicked....

Given it’s almost 70 years since Lerner and Loewe penned Paint Your Wagon, it’s had relatively few stage outings – certainly compared to...