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Africa Oyé announces first acts for 2026 festival

History, as another play about a much-maligned character reminded me this week, is written by the victors. It’s also been largely written...

Just like those other shell-shocking moments in time, those of us who were alive then know exactly where we were and what we were doing...

The rehabilitation of Richard III’s character continues apace. For every (increasingly fractious it seems) production of Shakespeare’s...

Fairytale ‘baddies’ get such a bad rap don’t they? But honestly, are they all really evil, or are some maybe just a bit, you know,...

Anton Bruckner was, by all accounts, a pretty peculiar man. He was obsessed with counting architectural features, had a troubling...

Reunions can be tricky things. They often come arm in arm with huge expectations which, thanks to intervening time and tide, are...

It’s certainly a week for prodigal returns at Hope Street. Tomorrow, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic’s greatest son – Sir Simon Rattle –...

It may not be the most famous, but Edward Scissorhands is arguably the most beguiling of all Matthew Bourne’s many stage creations from...

Gerry Linford has trodden a prolific playwriting path since he won a ‘highly commended’ award at the Liverpool Hope Playwriting Prize...

Stumbling stones – or Stolpersteine in German – are small brass squares embedded into pavements outside the former homes of Jewish people...