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Travel the world in new exhibition at Victoria Gallery & Museum

Travel, memory and belonging are at the heart of the latest exhibition at the Victoria Gallery and Museum. Cork-born Fion Gunn’s Arrival/Departures, running until December 23, is part of a year-long artistic residency within the University of Liverpool’s Institute of Irish Studies. Gunn, who works in a range of media from painting, decoupage and collage to sculpture, installation and virtual reality, has drawn together a collection of work – some newly created – which explore

Enjoy some Serious Nonsense at Prescot this summer

Serious nonsense is the order of the day in Prescot next month as part of Knowsley’s Borough of Culture celebrations. A three-day Serious Nonsense Festival takes over the town and its new Shakespeare North Playhouse to mark the links between Knowsley and the poet and painter Edward Lear. Michael Rosen, Lemn Sissay and Frank Cottrell Boyce are among the big names taking part in the event which runs from August 19-21. People can expect live music and comedy, while a special ser

YNWA returns to Liverpool Royal Court stage

Nicky Allt’s celebration of Liverpool Football Club returns to the Royal Court stage this week. YNWA - Let’s Talk About Six…Baby runs from July 29 to September 3 at the Roe Street theatre. Jake Abraham, Mark Moraghan and Lindzi Germain are among the cast who are also returning for the 2022 version of the hit show which takes its audience on a journey through 125 years of footballing history using songs from the terraces. And new songs and scenes have been added to bring it ba

Everyman and Playhouse reveals season of world premieres and revisited classics

The Everyman and Playhouse will stage three world premieres in the first full season under its new creative director Suba Das. Meanwhile Das will direct a new, 40th anniversary production of Caryl Churchill’s landmark play Top Girls, opening next March, and before that will take over the helm of the Everyman’s popular Rock ‘n’ Roll panto which will be given a makeover with a new creative team including a return for former Everyman artistic director Peter Rowe who is writing t

Maisie Adam launches tour with Liverpool Laughterhouse date

Comedian Maisie Adam is bringing her new live stand-up show to Liverpool this September. The 28-year-old will perform Buzzed at the Laughterhouse at Slaughterhouse in Fenwick Street on September 15 at the start of a 32-date autumn tour. The show promises witty observations and anecdotes, high octane energy and ‘some right good jokes’. Yorkshire-born Adam, a former member of the National Youth Theatre, graduated with a BA in acting and theatre from East 15 Acting School and in

FACT presents My Garden, My Sanctuary this summer

FACT is launching a summer exhibition which seeks to immerse its audience in playful, watery worlds. My Garden, My Sanctuary, presented by curator in residence Carrie Chan and opening tomorrow, features the work of two artists who use creative technology to tell stories of ancestry and self-discovery. South Korean Yaloo and UK artist Sian Fan weave ‘commodified symbols’ of East Asia through their work, including K-Pop, anime, seaweed and lotus flowers. Yaloo’s mystical instal

White Christmas cast revealed for Liverpool Empire festive run

Jay McGuinness, Lorna Luft and Liverpool’s own Michael Starke will star in White Christmas at the Liverpool Empire this festive season. The show is set to run at the Lime Street theatre from December 6-31. Strictly winner – and member of The Wanted - McGuiness will play Bob Wallace (the role made famous by Bing Crosby in the 1954 film on which the show is based), while acclaimed actress and singer Luft who is the younger daughter of the legendary Judy Garland will appear as M

Open Air tour for Off The Ground Theatre this summer

Off the Ground Theatre is bringing its new production of Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost to open air venues in Wirral and Liverpool this summer. The West Kirby based theatre company planned to first present the poetic comedy two years ago, but it had to be postponed because of the pandemic. Now the show is set to come to St Luke’s Bombed Out Church on July 28, Claremont Farm on July 31, Burton Manor (August 2), Queen’s Park at Meols (August 3), Birkenhead Priory (August 4)

Tate Liverpool stages Candice Breitz's Love Story

Tate Liverpool is staging a thought-provoking and topical installation by South African artist Candice Brice. Love Story 2016 is a seven-channel artwork which features performances from Hollywood actors Alec Baldwin and Julianne Moore and poses questions about whose voices we hear – and should listen to – in our media-soaked world. The work, which is being staged in the Royal Albert Dock venue’s ground floor Wolfson Gallery, gives six refugees from global hotspots the chance

Review: The Yarn at Reynolds Park ****

What a difference a year makes. Last summer, Imaginarium Theatre brought its touring production of As You Like It to Woolton where the audience gamely sat as a thunderstorm broke overhead and lightning meant the cast had to forgo the choreographed finale for fear of being struck. But the sun shone strongly (and aptly) on this latest visit for the Prescot-based company, bringing with it The Yarn, a tale of tradition-meets-change in an outwardly bucolic 19th Century rural Engla