FACT is taking cinema out of its Wood Street building and spreading screenings across Liverpool city centre locations and beyond this summer. Cinema in the City screenings will be staged at hidden sites throughout the city region from the start of July and will showcase the best independent cinema as well as emerging talent from local filmmakers. Food and drink will also be on offer. The opening series of films will be shown on the roof garden of the Cotton Exchange in Old Ha

The world premiere tour of Sir Matthew Bourne’s The Midnight Bell is coming to the Liverpool Playhouse this autumn. The New Adventures piece, set in 1930s Soho, will be staged at the Williamson Square theatre from October 19-23 as part of a wider UK tour. Tickets are on general sale now. The Midnight Bell, inspired by the late English playwright and novelist Patrick Hamilton, explores the under-belly of 1930s London life where ordinary people emerge from cheap boarding houses

A new Liverpool art trail which focuses on the future predicted impact of climate change will be launched as part of 2021 LightNight tonight. Heavy Gardening is being produced by artist Andrew Merritt of Something & Son, in collaboration with dot-art, First Take and Open Eye Gallery. The trail, which takes in seven artworks sited between the Bluecoat and Baltic Quarter, is part of Liverpool’s Urban GreenUP project and sees Merritt transform seven urban sites into useful habit

World Museum Liverpool is taking a journey through the past and present and looking into the future with the first major exhibition anywhere to bring together AI with art, science, music and philosophy. AI: More Than Human explores humans’ relationship with technology and the centuries-old desire to advance science, expand intelligence and extend life. And it poses the question – as life and technology become more and more entwined, where do we end and technology begin? And a

RuPaul’s Drag Race champion Bianca Del Rio is set to play Loco Chanelle in Everybody's Talking About Jamie at the Liverpool Empire. The smash hit West End musical will come to Lime Street from November 23-27. Layton Williams will reprise his award-winning role as Jamie New while Shobna Gulati will play Ray and Amy Ellen Richardson is Jamie’s mum. Bianca Del Rio is the stage name of Roy Haylock. Since winning Drag Race, he has completed four solo stand-up tours to sold-out aud

Work from more than 20 international artists is going on display across nine indoor Biennial locations in Liverpool city centre this week. From unusual ‘found’ sites like Lewis’s, Lush and the basement of the old Cotton Exchange to major city galleries, people will have the chance to see a mixture of new commissions and previous work by artists from the UK and all over the world. The theme of this year’s Biennial is The Stomach and the Port, with the question being posed – wh

Music comes to the 1940s Art Deco garden theatre at Calderstones this summer in a new initiative which marries melody and literature. The Reader has joined forces with Liverpool charity Early Music as Education to stage five open-air concerts which are inspired by works from The Reader Bookshelf. They will feature a comic opera, 17th and 18th Century chamber music selected in response to Book I of William Wordsworth’s The Prelude, and a sacred music production based on the ol

Liverpool museums and galleries will reopen their doors next week after the latest lifting of Covid restrictions was confirmed. It will be the first time in almost five months the venues will have hosted live visits. National Museum Liverpool sites, Tate Liverpool, the Bluecoat, FACT and Open Eye Gallery are among the city’s attractions set to open their doors to visitors again. In most cases however, people will still need to book ahead to access the venues and will have to

More than 15,000 paper peace doves will finally flock to Liverpool Cathedral this month – a year after the giant art installation was due to open. Artist Peter Walker was set to create the stunning suspended scene to mark the 75th anniversary of VE Day in May 2020. But with the cathedral’s doors being closed because of the coronavirus pandemic, the immersive artwork – created from paper birds inscribed with words of peace by Liverpool people and with a soundscape by composer

TV chef and presenter James Martin is stepping out of the small screen kitchen to take to the giant arena stage on a new tour which visiting Liverpool next spring. He will present James Martin Live at the M&S Bank Arena on March 19, 2022. Tickets go on sale at 10am this Friday, May 7. The show will combine the 48-year-old’s cooking skills with plenty of humorous chat. Martin said: “I love going out on tour so I’m really excited to be announcing new shows for 2022. “We’ve had