The stunning work of leading Victorian ceramicist William De Morgan is going on show in a new exhibition at the Lady Lever Art Gallery. De Morgan was one of the most inventive and innovative designers in the Arts and Crafts movement and Sublime Symmetry: De Morgan Ceramics – which runs at the Port Sunlight gallery until January – features around 70 pieces loaned from the De Morgan Foundation. They include his Symmetrical Crowned Swans plate; tiles featuring the mythical griff

She’s feisty and fabulous and now Nana Funk is getting ready to make her unmissable debut at the Liverpool Playhouse this weekend. The character, the creation of Liverpool actress and performer Angie Waller, brings her stage show An Evening With Nana Funk to the studio space as part of the Everyman and Playhouse’s commitment to supporting the development of work by Liverpool artists. Expect a riotously joyful evening which combines cabaret, burlesque, improv and clowning (oh,

Ricky Gervais is bringing his new live tour SuperNature to Liverpool next month. The internationally famous creator and star of The Office, Extras, Derek and After Life will come to the M&S Bank Arena on Friday, October 22. Tickets cost £32.85 to £40.90. The 60-year-old stand-up, actor, director, producer and writer started his career in 80s new wave band Seona Dancing and managed a then-unknown act called Suede before turning to comedy. In 2000 he had a spoof talk show, Meet

A giant sculpture trail celebrating Knowsley Hall’s links with Edward Lear will be part of Knowsley’s 2022 Borough of Culture celebrations. The poet penned his famous verse The Owl and the Pussycat while staying with the Earl of Derby and his family in 1871. A trail of 30 pairs of 6ft (2m) tall owls and cats, designed by Derbyshire-based Wild in Art, will be installed across the borough next summer. And now local artists, either professional or amateur, are being invited to s

A new immersive experience is being launched at St George’s Hall this month to help share the landmark building’s rich history with visitors. The History Whisperer uses the latest technology to bring to life Liverpool in the 1850s and is a focal point of the new £250,000 St George’s Hall Experience. It reveals how the Grade I listed building, opened in 1854, represented two sides of the Victorian port – from the grandeur of the public spaces like the Great Hall and Concert Ro

Tate Liverpool has unveiled its inaugural Art North West commission in a new exhibition at the gallery. 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 film installatio

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