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    Latest Liverpool Plinth sculpture highlights city's maritime past

    Latest Liverpool Plinth sculpture highlights city's maritime past

    Review: One Man, Two Guvnors at Liverpool Playhouse ****

    Review: One Man, Two Guvnors at Liverpool Playhouse ****

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    Shakespeare North Playhouse prepares for opening season

    Windmill sailing in to William Brown Street for summer 2022

    Windmill sailing in to William Brown Street for summer 2022

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    Tate Liverpool to host DaDa-inspired art intervention

    Review: Offered Up at Royal Court Studio ****

    Review: Offered Up at Royal Court Studio ****

    Liverpool Empire date for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

    Liverpool Empire date for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

    Review: Our Town Needs a Nandos at Liverpool Everyman ****

    Review: Our Town Needs a Nandos at Liverpool Everyman ****

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    NML unveils new season exhibitions programme

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    Liverpool Arab Arts Festival 2022 Programme revealed

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    Liverpool Phil singers join international Ode to Joy

    Liverpool Phil singers join international Ode to Joy

    Members of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir are taking part in a ground-breaking online performance of Beethoven’s Ode to Joy. Beethoven 360° - Ode to Joy brings together hundreds of singers and musicians from across the world in a special world premiere 360-degree-VR performance under the artistic leadership of Kahchun Wong, Singaporean Chief Conductor of Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra. The video is being premiered on Singapore-based The Straits Times’ Facebook and YouTu
    Waitress to serve up a great night out at Liverpool Empire

    Waitress to serve up a great night out at Liverpool Empire

    Liverpool musicals fans are being promised a pie-fect evening at the theatre with West End and Broadway smash hit Waitress on the menu at the Empire next year. The irresistible stage version of the 2007 film comedy comes to the theatre from May 31 to June 5. Tickets go on general sale tomorrow. Meet Jenna, a waitress and expert pie maker who dreams of some happiness in her life. When a hot new doctor arrives in town, life gets complicated. With the support of her workmates Be
    My Best Friend's Wedding the Musical coming to Liverpool

    My Best Friend's Wedding the Musical coming to Liverpool

    A new musical version of Hollywood hit My Best Friend’s Wedding is coming to the Liverpool Empire – in 2022. The show, co-written by Liverpool’s Jonathan Harvey and the film’s original screenwriter Ronald Bass, will be staged at the Lime Street theatre from March 7-12. It stars Alexandra Burke as Julianne Potter, the role played by Julia Roberts in the 1990s movie, and has a soundtrack of Bacharach and David classics including I’ll Never Fall in Love Again, I Just Don’t Know
    Grosvenor Park Open Air Theatre to return for August

    Grosvenor Park Open Air Theatre to return for August

    Grosvenor Park Open Air Theatre is set to take place after all this summer – after its original planned season was postponed. Storyhouse artistic director Alex Clifton will lead an outdoor production of The Comedy of Errors from August 8-30. It replaces Taming of the Shrew, The Jungle Book and Pride and Prejudice which have been moved to summer 2021. The eight-strong Comedy of Errors cast will work in a ‘bio-bubble’ with regular testing as part of a series of Covid-safe measu
    RLPO cancels September and October concerts

    RLPO cancels September and October concerts

    The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic has announced that its planned new season concerts for September and October have been cancelled due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The 2020/21 season – Vasily Petrenko’s last as chief conductor – was due to have opened on Saturday, September 26 with soloist Mao Fujita performing Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto and Petrenko conducting Shostakovich’s Leningrad Symphony. But that RLPO concert, along with seven others, will now no longer
    Women playwrights centre stage in new programme

    Women playwrights centre stage in new programme

    Liverpool’s Ginni Manning has been announced as part of a new initiative to support women playwrights in the UK. Manning, who studied creative writing at the University of Liverpool and wrote the award-winning Dipalo with Lala Mokuku, is one of 15 female writers across the country chosen for the Sphinx Theatre Company’s new programme. Sphinx 30, marking the London-based all-woman company’s 30th anniversary, sees it teaming up with 15 regional theatres and the Everyman and Pla
    Poetry and performance comes to St James' Gardens

    Poetry and performance comes to St James' Gardens

    Spoken word heads into the great outdoors this week when a one-off event is held in St James' Gardens. A Lovely Word was due to take place at Princes Park this Thursday, August 6, but organisers have had to change the location at short notice to the grounds below Liverpool Cathedral. It will still feature poets and performers staging a socially-distanced open-air version of A Lovely Word – the monthly spoken word night which normally takes place at the Everyman bistro. The ev
    Ferocious Love sets climate at Tate Liverpool

    Ferocious Love sets climate at Tate Liverpool

    A polyphonic soundscape voiced by a Liverpool choir and footage shot inside the city’s Williamson Tunnels come together in a new audio-visual installation at Tate Liverpool. Greek-British artist Mikhail Karikis has collaborated with The Liverpool Socialist Singers and students from Birmingham School of Art to create Ferocious Love which is going on show from Monday. The 13-minute immersive artwork, being staged in the Royal Albert Dock venue’s Wolfson Gallery, is set in 2050
    Sefton Park Palm House hosts Illyria theatre

    Sefton Park Palm House hosts Illyria theatre

    Open-air theatre comes to the grounds of Sefton Park Palm House next month. Award-winning Illyria outdoor theatre company is set to bring its charming version of The Wind in the Willows to the park for two performances on Saturday, August 22. Kenneth Grahame’s family favourite, adapted by artistic director Oliver Gray, will be brought to life in inimitable Illyria style. Mole yearns for adventure, Rat adores boats and Badger likes peace and quiet. Into their lives bursts Toad
    Scottie Road the Musical goes online to entertain Caz n Britney fans

    Scottie Road the Musical goes online to entertain Caz n Britney fans

    Liverpool favourite Scottie Road the Musical takes to the internet for a final time tonight. The ‘musical misadventure’, filmed at the Unity Theatre in 2014, will be broadcast directly into theatre fans' homes at 8pm on the At Yours online theatrical experience platform. The broadcast is the final one of three this weekend. Gillian Hardie and Keddy Sutton wrote and also appear in the show which follows the epic exploits of Caz ‘n’ Britney, the two pasty scoffing, PJ wearing S
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