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Africa Oyé announces first acts for 2026 festival

The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic has a reputation for commissioning new work and Hope Street audiences have become used to world...

First it was a best-selling book (titled These Foolish Things), then a hit film, followed by a reality TV series populated by a cohort of...

When Anton Chekhov premiered The Seagull in the autumn of 1896, it bewildered its audience whose loud dismay (they booed and hissed the...

There are ‘in house’ productions – and then there’s the Royal Court where the creative team (and wider workforce) don’t just stage shows...

When Caryl Churchill’s Top Girls was premiered back in 1982, it was hailed as an important addition to both the socialist and feminist...

Having delivered his Nutcracker! in 1992, and his singular Swan Lake in 1995, it took Matthew Bourne the best part of two decades to...

It’s never good news when you find yourself without a soloist days before a practically sold-out concert. So you can feel for the...

It’s a decade since Matthew Spangler’s adaptation of The Kite Runner first landed on the Liverpool Playhouse’s stage and five years since...

Christmas may be fast receding in the rear-view mirror of memory. But although we’re no longer in traditional panto season, Liverpool...

A lot has happened since the Lincoln Center Theater’s lavish-looking production of The King and I last swept on to the stage at the...