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Liverpool improv actor plans marathon challenge for charity
Actor and improvisor Trevor Fleming is set to raise funds for charity by embarking on a mammoth Improvathon next month – just hours after completing the Liverpool half marathon. Fleming will attempt to create more than 300 improv characters in 302 minutes at the event on Sunday, March 15. Audiences at the challenge, which takes place in Studio 3 at the Liverpool Arts Bar in Hope Street, will be asked to offer one-word suggestions which he will spin into an immediate off-the-c
Liverpool Year of the Horse celebrations announced
Liverpool will mark Year of the Horse with events and activities this month including performances, parades and two huge lantern installations. The Lunar New Year, or Chinese New Year, officially begins on February 17 for 2026, with celebrations taking place in Liverpool’s Chinatown on February 21 and 22. Ahead of that, from February 14 onwards, thousands of red lanterns will return to Liverpool streets around Chinatown, Liverpool ONE and the Royal Albert Dock, while key city
Liverpool theatre shows this February
With New Year now in the rear-view mirror, Easter on the far horizon and nights definitely getting just that little bit lighter, it’s the ideal time to squeeze in a trip to the theatre – or three. Liverpool venues have live performance covered in the shortest month of the year with a range of productions from big and bold musicals to intimate storytelling, and from comedy to hard-hitting drama. February kicks off with a return to the Empire stage for Tudor smash hit SIX the M
Liverpool International Jazz Festival 2026 line-up
Liverpool International Jazz Festival returns this month with a line-up of music talent from the UK, Europe and the US. The annual festival, which began in 2013, will be staged at Liverpool Hope University’s Capstone Theatre between February 26 and March 1. Stellar jazz musicians and singers set to take part in the 2026 festival include Tim Garland and Geoffrey Keezer, David Helbock and Julia Hofer, Zoe Rahman and Arun Ghosh, Robert Mitchell's Little Black Book, Martin Taylor
Cracking comedy to catch in Liverpool in 2026
Is everyone in Liverpool a comedian? If not, the UK’s unofficial ‘capital of comedy’ certainly punches way above its weight when it comes to knowing how to enjoy a good laugh. So it’s perhaps no surprise funny men and women from across the country – and beyond – are always keen to bring their live shows to the city. Along with bespoke comedy clubs and regular comedy nights, star names and rising talent also perform at mainstream venues like the M&S Bank Arena, Liverpool Playh
Tate Liverpool reveals Ed Ruscha display for 2026
Tate Liverpool is hosting a new exhibition of work by influential contemporary American artist Ed Ruscha at its temporary waterfront home. ARTIST ROOMS: Ed Ruscha is on show from February 12 to June 14 at Tate Liverpool + RIBA North on Mann Island. The display, centred on the driving culture of mid-century America and the emerging architecture of Los Angeles, features books, photographs, paintings, drawings and lithographs. Ruscha, who was born in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1937 and
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Catherine jones
Arts City Liverpool
I'm a lover of Liverpool and its cornucopia of cultural events and adventures. A journalist with 25 years' experience, including nearly a decade as Echo arts editor.
Now a freelance arts writer, theatre addict, music lover and champion of the city I'm proud to call home.
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