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Africa Oyé announces first acts for 2026 festival

In recent years the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic has applied itself to highlighting and celebrating talented women composers whose work...

If you were given infinite power and a century in which to wield it, what would you do? In Marlowe and Goethe’s versions of the Faustus...

Courtroom dramas have a long history on film Think To Kill a Mockingbird, A Few Good Men, Runaway Jury, Witness for the Prosecution and...

Alan Parker’s colourful confection of gangsters and showgirls has entertained generations of youngsters since it burst on to the big...

It was 10.30pm and there was a woman at the stop seeing her friend safely on to the bus I had just stepped off after returning from the...

It was supposed to be the return to the Liverpool stage of Daniel Barenboim after a 50-year absence, in a performance conducted by the...

Playwright Conor McPherson has spent his career placing disparate characters in isolated or bleak settings (bedsits, seaside suburbs, a...

Twelve months after its Christmas residency, Dreamgirls is back at the Empire for the final hurrah of its inaugural UK tour – and if the...

Fe fi fo fum, something seasonally silly this way comes. There are tall stories, and then there’s Jack and the Beanstalk, the improbable...

God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen may not be on the programme for 2022, but the RLPO’s Spirit of Christmas concerts certainly spread comfort...