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Africa Oyé announces first acts for 2026 festival

It’s a strange and confusing contradiction that in this modern world, despite ‘connection’ being just a tapped screen away, more and more...

The evenings are closing in and Strictly Come Dancing is back on our TV screens in a riot of Saturday night salsa, samba, spandex and...

Audrey Niffenegger’s unconventional love story of a time travelling librarian and his soulmate has evoked powerful responses from readers...

The Importance of Being Earnest remains perhaps Oscar Wilde’s greatest play. Of course, we don’t know what he might have trumped it with....

Frantic Assembly’s robust retelling of Othello has gone back to the pub for a third round of drinks, aggro and futile bloodshed. The...

Patrick Maguire’s intensely realised love story A Billion Times I Love You won the new writing award at last year’s Homotopia Festival....

Outside it was grey and damp, but inside the Philharmonic Hall’s auditorium there was a chance to bask (or perhaps Basque) in some late...

The nights are drawing in and there’s an early autumnal chill in the air which can mean only one thing – a new season of music making at...

In the week when we've lost real royalty, Julie, Madly, Deeply – written and performed by Sarah-Louise Young - gives the Liverpool...

They were, perhaps, the original boy band – and in the 1970s Osmondmania swept Liverpool just as it did nearly every other place in the...