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Africa Oyé announces first acts for 2026 festival

Panto season is packed with fairy godmothers, sleeping princesses, diminutive miners, magic carpets and improbable runaway vegetation. So...

It’s usually snow which throws plans into disarray – but it’s the lack of the cold, fluffy stuff which causes the biggest headache for...

Is there anything more evocative of (and peculiarly distinctive about) a British Christmas than a theatre full of children screaming ‘oh...

The Everyman’s rock ‘n’ roll panto has become a Christmas tradition for many Liverpool theatregoers, and just like the Royal Court down...

Sacred music, nursery rhymes, a brave new world – and a generously populated Philharmonic Hall enjoying it all. Who needs the World Cup?...

Before bands and solo artists started to write their own music – before the Beatles basically – they relied on the prodigious output from...

If The Chronicles of Atom and Luna seems familiar to Unity regulars, there’s good reason. The new play – being toured by Essex-based...

It’s 15 years since the RLPO and Vasily Petrenko gathered on the Philharmonic Hall stage to record Tchaikovsky’s Manfred Symphony. A lot...

There are very few shows that can boast a natural ‘home’ – and a prodigal homecoming to boot. But Blood Brothers, Willy Russell’s tragic...

He’s a superstar at home in Japan and since he first appeared in Liverpool the best part of a decade ago, Nobuyuki Tsujii has become a...