Tate Liverpool unveils its inaugural Art North West commission in a new exhibition which opens at the gallery tomorrow. Flatland is Liverpool-based artist Emily Speed’s first show at the Royal Albert Dock venue. Speed's practice incorporates drawing, sculpture, installation, moving image and performance and she is concerned with the relationship between architecture and the human body. At the heart of the free exhibition, being staged in Tate’s ground floor gallery, is a new

You wait for one play about simmering family secrets, lies and resentments exploding at a 65th birthday party – and then two come along in the space of a week. But while at the Everyman the torrid emotions and bitter words tumble out against the cluttered backdrop of Sefton Coast domesticity, this revival of Tennessee Williams’ sultry Mississippi Delta story – an E&P co-production in residence at the Playhouse this week - is shorn of its usual Southern comfort and fussy furbe

Liverpool Irish Festival returns this autumn with 10 packed days of events celebrating the city’s links with Ireland. The 2021 festival takes place from October 21-31 and this year’s theme is Exchange. Music, theatre, poetry, performance, film, tours, talks and food and drink events will take place live and online, while there is also the popular annual Family Day being held at the Museum of Liverpool on October 30. Liverpool Irish Festival was started in 2003 with the aim of

Gemma Brodrick is sharing a dressing room at the Liverpool Everyman this autumn – and she couldn’t be happier. That could be because her (dressing)roomie is Josie Lawrence. “I adore Josie,” Brodrick enthuses about the Black Country-born actor and comedian. “She’s so funny and we’re having such a laugh." Lawrence rose to fame in the late 1980s on the hit TV improv series Whose Line is it Anyway? and it appears she still keeps her hand in. Brodrick laughs: “She allows me to sho

Monster trucks are coming to Liverpool in 2022 as one of only five European tour venues. The Hot Wheels Monster Trucks Live Tour includes two dates at the M&S Bank Arena. There will be daytime and evening performances on both January 15 and 16. Tickets for the shows - from Live Nation and Raycom-Legacy Content Company, in partnership with Mattel - go on sale this Friday. Producers are promising more trucks than ever before. The show will include the all-new Mega Wrex™ truck t

Jonathan Harvey’s hotly anticipated new play Our Lady of Blundellsands was dealt a blow when its premiere run was cut cruelly short by Covid last spring. But you can’t keep a good story down. And now the production has finally returned to the Everyman stage not, strictly, to complete its run but to start a new one. Despite the 18-month hiatus, half the original six-strong cast have returned to designer Janet Bird’s shabby house by the sea where they are joined by three new fa

The National Trust has reopened its Hardmans' House site for the first time in 18 months. The Georgian building in Rodney Street, where photographer Edward Chambré Hardman lived and worked, has been closed since the first lockdown in March last year. Now the historic venue, a 1950s’ time capsule, is welcoming back visitors on guided tours on Fridays and Saturdays. And it is also staging a new exhibition of contemporary work by Liverpool-based artist Tabitha Jussa, the first a

In April 1880 Liverpool’s capacious Royal Amphitheatre hosted actor and theatre impresario George Rignold and his company in a 10-day run of Shakespeare’s Henry V. Among that company was a teenage thespian called Walter Richard Sickert – a young man of German-Irish heritage whose own grandmother had been on the stage. Sickert by all accounts acquitted himself well (even if, later in the same season, his Demetrius in an Alexandra Theatre Liverpool production of A Midsummer Nig

Liverpool’s musical heritage will be the inspiration when the popular River of Light trail returns to the waterfront and city centre this autumn. The event attracted around 120,000 visitors when it was held earlier this year. Now it is back for two-and-a-half weeks from October 22, and with the theme of the Rhythm of the Light – celebrating the city’s great musical past and with most of the light installations being accompanied by a special soundtrack. The artists and artwork

Is there such a thing as a perfect crime? That’s the question posed by Frederick Knott’s play Dial M for Murder which its writer then adapted for a famous big screen outing at the hands of master of suspense Alfred Hitchcock. Of course, Knott’s twisty turny piece is less a whodunnit than a ‘he-dunnit’ – the audience knows the whole story pretty much from the off, and the sense of suspense comes in wondering whether the protagonist will be rumbled and receive his just desserts