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Africa Oyé announces first acts for 2026 festival

All eyes are on Liverpool this week, with the joyful Eurovision juggernaut reaching a crazy, camp, celebratory climax tomorrow night down...

“Where does imagination stop, and memory begin?” asks the magical matriarch of the mysterious Hempstock family near the start of Neil...

Ahhh, the smell of the greasepaint…the roar of the crowd. Treading the boards is an addictive, if precarious way to make a living, as the...

Lancaster-based theatre company imitating the dog has become a regular visitor to the Playhouse over the past few years, bringing with it...

More than 30 years after he first created it, Roddy Doyle’s tale of a band rising from the grimy streets of Dublin’s North Side, burning...

It’s not particularly easy to find the positives in a pandemic which has decimated lives, communities and economies. But it’s probably...

Four years ago, Adjoa Andoh directed and starred in an all-Black women cast Richard II at the Globe which mused on what it means to be...

Richard ‘One Man, Two Guvnors’ Bean penned Great Britain against the backdrop of the News of the World phone hacking trials of a decade...

There are some concert programmes that send you home with a smile – and this foray into the sound worlds of Barber, Beethoven and the...

There have always been conspiracy theories and people happy to believe them, but the rise of the internet – and, in recent times, being...