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Everyman Underground presents new experimental work online

Liverpool Everyman is hosting a new Underground series showcasing digital performances of new bold and experimental work. The initiative is being launched with four artists performing sets in an empty bar which will be available to watch on-demand from the end of this week. Actor Paislie Reid is hosting the initial edition which features Bradford-born, London-based songwriter and instrumentalist Laura Groves; experimental spoken world duo The Circus Minds – made up of Liverpo

Dreamgirls celebrate Christmas at the Liverpool Empire

Dreamgirls is coming to the Liverpool Empire for Christmas 2021. The lavish, multi award-winning West End smash hit musical was initially due to make its Lime Street debut this February. Now it will be staged at the theatre from December 14 to January 1. Tickets are on sale from 10am tomorrow, April 27. This is the second year the Empire will have planned to host a stage spectacular rather than traditional panto. Meatloaf musical Bat Out of Hell was due to be the Christmas 20

Lady Lever prepares to open Augustus John exhibition

The Lady Lever is making final preparations for its latest exhibition which will open to the public next week. The Last Bohemian: Augustus John will open its doors from May 18 after the Government announced the easing of Covid restrictions as part of its roadmap out of lockdown. The show will be part of the Port Sunlight gallery's 'welcome back' for visitors who will be able to visit the venue for the first time since the New Year. John, born in Pembrokeshire in 1878 and who

Les Mis returns to the Liverpool Empire in 2022

Smash hit musical Les Mis is returning to the Liverpool Empire as part of a new UK tour. The multi award-winning stage spectacular will enjoy a 22-show run at the theatre from January 5-22 next year. Tickets are on sale now. The cast will include Dean Chisnall as Jean Valjean, Katie Hall as Fantine and Nic Greenshields as Javert. The Cameron Macintosh 25th anniversary restaging previously entertained audiences at the Lime Street venue in October 2019 with Greenshields and Hal

LightNight Liverpool 2021 reveals seven new commissions

LightNight Liverpool has unveiled seven new commissions for this year’s event – taking place live and online tonight. Synth-pop trio Stealing Sheep will stage Song Machine both online and with a limited live audience, with people invited to submit words and poetry through the Twitter tag #playis which will become a mass songwriting experiment. Homotopia will present Scouse singing sensation Philippa McKrackin and leading UK drag cabaret artists in a series of special performa

Review: Vasily Petrenko and RLPO play Beethoven ****

It should have been a chance to enjoy some master music-making and to say goodbye to someone who has shaped the scene at Hope Street (and beyond) for 15 years. But the pandemic has undone all the plans for Vasily Petrenko’s final season with the Phil, denying audiences the farewell that they – and he – deserved. Perhaps that was a thought that lingered when this latest series of ‘On Demand’ concerts, all but one recorded in an empty hall and specifically for broadcast, was pr

Liverpool Biennial reveals second chapter with indoor artworks

Lewis’s, Lush Liverpool Spa, the Cotton Exchange and the Central Library are among nine venues set to stage Liverpool Biennal exhibitions and work from next month. The festival of contemporary art plans to open its second ‘chapter’ to coincide with the expected further easing of Government lockdown restrictions. The Biennial unveiled a series of public realm works before Easter. This second chapter - opening from May 19 - also includes works at the Dr Martin Luther King Build

Liverpool Playhouse hosts Fantastically Great Women this Christmas

Liverpool Playhouse is playing host to some great women this Christmas. The team behind the hit stage musical SIX are set to bring their new show Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World to the Williamson Square theatre, opening on December 8. Tickets go on sale next month. The show, which is being billed as a ‘kickass-pirational pop musical’ is based on the book by Kate Pankhurst – descendent of suffragette leader Emmeline – and written by Chris Bush. Music comes from

Sefton Park to host Covid test music festival event

Music fans are being invited to attend a special festival evening as part of a Liverpool project to research Covid-safe cultural events. People who attend the Sefton Park Pilot concert on May 2 must present evidence that they have had a negative lateral flow Covid test within 24 hours before the event but once there they won’t have to wear a mask or socially distance. Only people aged 18 and over who are from the Liverpool City Region and registered with a local GP are eligib

Liverpool doorstep dancers together while apart in Fallen Angels project

Liverpool people in recovery from addiction have been dancing on their doorsteps as part of a special Together While Apart project. Fallen Angels Dance Theatre has worked with more than 50 people across the North West as part of the initiative which aims to explore how doorways have become a metaphor for the way we have all been living during the last year of pandemic. And the resulting work has been captured on camera by Liverpool photographer Jazamin Sinclair. Fallen Angels

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