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Reflections of Liverpool exhibition is a candid snapshot of the past
When Bob Howells died in 1999, he left his grandson Steven a couple of cameras along with a tin of film negatives and glass slides. Little can he have imagined that nearly 30 years later the images on those rolls would be blown up and on display in an exhibition on the Liverpool waterfront. Reflections of Liverpool: The Howells' Family Album, which runs at the Museum of Liverpool until September, captures his young family at home and play - and Bob Howells' colleagues at Camp
Review: Haydn's Creation at the Tung Auditorium ****1/2
The Liverpool Mozart Orchestra set the bar high when it launched its 75th anniversary year last November with its president Sir Simon Rattle on the podium. Happily, it had another ace up its sleeve with which to bring the special season to a fitting close, and in jubilant fashion. The orchestra has performed Haydn throughout its three-quarters-of-a-century of music making, principally the prolific Austrian’s symphonies, but also occasionally other pieces, like his oboe concer
Review: Music of the Americas at Philharmonic Hall ****1/2
America celebrates a big birthday this July 4th. And just to show we here in the ‘old country’ don’t bear a grudge at being shown the door 250 years ago, the Phil went all-American in this exuberant Thursday night concert. Lest we forget, for many of those years Liverpool was the gateway to the ‘new world’, and those transatlantic links remain strong. But this was also a wider international affair, with the equally exuberant German pianist Frank Dupree making his first (but h
Bost celebrates 100 years with new Liverpool Playhouse residency
BOST Musicals has announced a new five-year residency at the Liverpool Playhouse as part of its centenary celebrations. The long-running organisation, founded as the Birkenhead Operatic Society Trust in 1926, will stage three shows at the Liverpool Playhouse between now and 2030. The inaugural production, Stephen Sondheim’s Follies, is set to be performed at the historic Williamson Square theatre on June 5-6. Directed and choreographed by James Lacey, the spectacular musical
Five concerts to enjoy at the Tung Auditorium this spring and summer
If you haven’t yet paid a visit to Liverpool’s Tung Auditorium you won’t know it has arguably the most perfect acoustics in the whole city. Audiences who have discovered the contemporary concert auditorium at the Yoko Ono Lennon Centre in Oxford Street will know what I’m talking about. But whether you are a first-time visitor or a regular attendee, there is plenty going on at the 400-seat auditorium this spring and summer with a host of concerts of all genres on the programme
Review: The Spy Who Came in From the Cold at the Liverpool Playhouse ***1/2
Berlin in 1963 was the central battleground between two conflicting ideologies which had recently brought the world to the brink of destruction. Twelve months after the Cuban Missile Crisis, two years after the Berlin wall was erected - dividing the communist East from capitalist West - both Kennedy (“ich bin ein Berliner”) and Khrushchev paid visits to the city in an appeal for hearts and minds. The perfect setting then, and perfect timing too, for the publication of John Le
Liverpool's Unity theatre explores its radical history and tradition
Liverpool’s Unity Theatre is exploring its own radical history this spring in a Heritage Lottery-funded programme of events. A Radical Re-imagining encompasses theatre, music, art, workshops, talks and panel discussions and community events and includes a special archival exhibition at Liverpool John Moores University’s Mount Pleasant Campus Library. And the celebratory season will culminate in a specially devised new production, Stage Left, at the Hope Place theatre on June
Review: The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher at Liverpool Everyman ****1/2
As titles go, The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher is certainly an arresting one. And, as the Everyman itself allows, a provocative one too – just as it was when Hilary Mantel’s controversial short story on which this new production is based was first published 12 years ago. Of course, the IRA tried it for real when they bombed the Grand Hotel in Brighton in the early hours of October 12, 1984, missing Margaret Thatcher but murdering five, including Eric Taylor, manager of
Liverpool European Festival 2026 most ambitious yet
Liverpool European Festival returns this weekend with a wide-ranging programme of community-led events and activities. The festival, a legacy of Liverpool’s hosting of the 2023 Eurovision on behalf of Ukraine, is now in its fourth year and organisers are promising the 2026 event is the most ambitious to date. It runs from May 9 to July 5. The festival is set to officially open on Europe Day this Saturday (May 9) with a large-scale public event at St Luke’s Bombed Out Church f
Exhibition finds a home at St George's Hall
Themes around migration, displacement and transition are explored in a new exhibition at St George’s Hall. Liverpool art collective Home and Away Workshops' exhibition runs until May 31 in the historic landmark’s heritage centre foyer. Home and Away presents works that offer multiple interpretations of home, not as a fixed location, but as something embodied, remembered, imagined - and continually re-made. It features a diverse range of mixed-media work from a variety of arti
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