Can you hear the people sing? Because Liverpool is set to welcome Les Misérables in 2019. The multi award-winning musical will come to the Liverpool Empire as part of a national tour, spending two-and-a-half weeks at the Lime Street venue from October 9. Tickets for the hotly-anticipated musical go on general sale on November 30 with pre-sale dates for ATG ticket holders on November 26 and group bookers from November 29. Cameron Mackintosh first conceived this new production

Christmas comes to St George’s Hall this weekend with the arrival of the annual festive market on the Plateau. The Christmas Market will run from 5pm on Friday, November 16 until Sunday, December 23. Around 40 stalls will sell everything from festive decorations to food, handmade jewellery, crafts, ceramics and clothing. There will also be a number of food outlets offering hog roasts, bratwurst, crepes and waffles, along with the Windmill Bar which offers beers, mulled wines

Benidorm the series may have finally taken its towel off the ITV sun lounger and headed for home. But it seems its spirit lives on – in all its big, bold, brassy, camp and colourful glory – in this new spin off stage show doing roaring business spreading sunshine across the UK over the British winter. In the 1970s we Brits started flocking to Benidorm and other resorts on Spain’s Costa Blanca. And Derren Litten’s Confessions of a Carry On Costas-style show is certainly a homa

Tate Liverpool has revealed more information about its Keith Haring exhibition - the first major show of his art in the UK. More than 85 works by the Pennsylvania-born artist – including large-scale drawings, paintings and sculptures - will go on display at the waterfront venue in 2019 in what Tate bosses believe will be a hugely-popular summer blockbuster exhibition. Haring, who died of AIDs-related complications in 1990 at the age of 31, was a part of the legendary New York

Benjamin Britten penned his pacifist masterpiece for the consecration of the new Coventry Cathedral in 1962. Liverpool Cathedral was still under construction in the early 60s, and unlike Coventry, had only suffered minor damage from what amounted – in the grand scheme of things – to a glancing blow during the heavy bombardment of the city during the Second World War. But still, a similarly fitting setting for a performance packed with potent symbolism on the eve of an occasio

Tomorrow the RLPO leads massed ranks from Liverpool and Hannover in a performance of Britten’s War Requiem in a sell-out concert at Liverpool Cathedral. Last night the Phil presented a perhaps less overtly obvious, but equally poignant, programme centred around the centenary of the Great War, and with the Philharmonic Hall packed if not to the rafters then certainly in to the choir stalls. There was, of course, the draw of the hugely talented teenage cellist Sheku Kanneh-Maso

Sir Ian McKellen is celebrating his 80th birthday with a fundraising tour of the UK – including two nights at the Liverpool Playhouse. The stage and screen star will appear at the Williamson Square theatre on May 17-18 with his show Ian McKellen on Stage: Tolkien, Shakespeare, others….and you! He said today: “The show starts with Gandalf and will probably end with an invitation to act with me on stage. In between there will be anecdotes and acting. “Live theatre has always be

Elton John is set to play the Echo Arena one last time – but fans will have to wait TWO YEARS to see him. The superstar singer-songwriter brings his Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour to the Liverpool venue for two nights on November 13 and 14 2020. And now he has also added an extra date on December 11 due to demand. Tickets cost between £51.50 and £166.50. The Liverpool dates are more than two years in to the mammoth three-year world tour which started in the US this September

Anyone who has watched a loved one in the grip of dementia will find a real resonance in this emotionally powerful new stage version of Lisa Genova’s novel Still Alice. Fear, frustration, anger, confusion and disorientation go hand-in-hand with a deep sense of love in Christine Mary Dunford’s adaptation presented by the Leeds Playhouse, visiting its Liverpool counterpart as part of a national tour. Alice Howland (Sharon Small) is a driven Harvard linguistics professor on the

Liverpool Biennial artistic director Sally Tallant is set to leave the city for a new role in New York. She has been appointed as the new executive director of Queens Museum based in Flushing Meadow and will take up the job in the New Year. Tallant is the latest high-profile arts leader to leave their roles in Liverpool over the past few months, following Deborah Aydon at the Everyman and Playhouse, Mike Stubbs at FACT, Francesco Manacorda and Andrea Nixon at Tate Liverpool,