Shops and restaurants will spill out into the road when the annual Celebrating Bold Street returns next weekend. Food, drink, and music from some of Liverpool’s most talented up-and-coming performers will be on offer on Sunday, July 7. There will also be family-friendly entertainment and animation during the day which runs from 10am to 6pm. The summer street party will see restaurants and cafés including Maray, Mowgli, LEAF, Soul of Bold Street and American Pizza Slice showca

Benidorm star Tony Maudsley will return home for Christmas to tread the boards at the Liverpool Empire. The Kirkby-born actor will take on the role of Kenneth the Cabin Boy in Qdos Entertainments’ pantomime Peter Pan. He will join fellow cast members John Evans – returning to the Lime Street theatre for a third festive season – as Smee, and fellow Benidorm star Asa Elliott who will take on the role of Tiger Billy. Further casting is yet to be announced. Maudsley said today: “

Liam Gallagher is heading for Liverpool as part of a solo tour this autumn. The former Oasis frontman – who played Glastonbury’s Pyramid Stage last weekend - will appear at the M&S Bank Arena on November 21. Tickets for the Liverpool gig cost between £33.85 and £62.15 and go on general sale on July 12 at 9am. The 46-year-old Mancunian rose to fame in the early 1990s as part of Brit Pop legends Oasis, appearing alongside older brother Noel Gallagher and writing numbers includi

Liverpool Arab Arts Festival is taking place in the city and the 2019 event has the theme of Shadow and Light. Music, art, performance, theatre, talks, workshops and family-friendly events are running from July 5-14. The theme was inspired by Beau Beausoleil’s exhibition of the same name which is receiving its UK premiere at the Northern Lights hub in the Baltic Triangle from July 6-14. Shadow and Light is a collaborative project honouring the lives of more than 400 Iraqi aca

Disco superstars and funk legends Nile Rodgers and CHIC will headline this year’s Liverpool International Music Festival in Sefton Park. The influential multi award-winning American musician, songwriter and producer returns to the city after appearing at the then Echo Arena in 2017 as part of Liverpool Music Week. He is also a LIPA Companion. Rodgers and CHIC will headline on the main stage on Saturday, July 20. They join the already confirmed De La Soul, SIGMA and Disco Clas

Performing a play set in ‘fair’ Verona is always a gamble in an English summer where the light from yonder window breaking is currently being accompanied by wind and rain. But open-air theatre only stops for lightning, and Liverpool audiences – here ensconced beneath a chain of gazebos – are generally a hardy lot. It’s also well worth the damp tramp into Merseyside’s woodlands and parks to see the newly-monikered Imaginarium Theatre (formerly MATE Productions). The name may h

The UK’s largest celebration of African music and culture returns to Sefton Park this weekend for two days of free festival fun. Africa Oyé will bring some of the best African and Afro-Caribbean rhythms to the South Liverpool park on Saturday, June 22 and Sunday, June 23. Thousands of people are expected to descend on this year’s festival which includes appearances from the Garifuna Collective (Belize), legendary Jamaican reggae artist Horace Andy, BCUC from Soweto, Sofiane S

It’s all aboard at Tate Liverpool this summer for an artistic adventure with a difference. While the Royal Albert Dock gallery is showcasing the first major UK exhibition of Keith Haring on its fourth floor, in the ground floor Wolfson Gallery visitors can go on a very different journey. Sol Calero’s immersive installation El Autobús – the Venezuelan-born, Berlin-based artist’s first museum display in the UK – explores themes of cultural stereotypes and the tourism industry.

It’s not uncommon for the RLPO to produce a gloriously cinematic sound. But a whole evening? That’s certainly what you get when you present a programme packed with the rich, round, heart-swelling, neoromanticism of John Williams. This triumphant concert, repeated tonight and produced in collaboration with the European Film Harmonic Institute, shows what a composing chameleon the 87-year-old master of the movie soundtrack has been – and over many, many decades. Williams has 51

A new piece of art has been unveiled on the Liverpool Plinth. Split Decision will be on show on the site - at Liverpool Parish Church on the waterfront - for the next 12 months. The vibrant 4.5 metre (15ft) multicoloured sculpture explores themes of mental health and depression. It has been created by award-winning Egyptian-born, North Yorkshire-based artist Sam Shendi and was chosen after a call went out for submissions from artists based in the North of England. The sculpto