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Liverpool International Jazz Festival 2026 line-up

Liverpool art lovers may recall the Marc Chagall exhibition at Tate Liverpool 12 years ago where among the many wonderful paintings on...

It was teeming outside – both with rain, and with fans who didn’t have tickets for the Merseyside derby at Anfield and were intent on...

More than a quarter of a century after it first burst on the storytelling scene, the ‘young adult’ fantasy fiction genre remains hugely...

It’s a decade since writer and actor Lewis Bray introduced Liverpool audiences to the wild and wonderful world conjured by his creative...

When you talk about the women who were part of the Beatles ‘story’ it’s more usually the wives and girlfriends – people like Cynthia,...

It’s rare for something that’s essentially a jukebox musical to have quite so meaty – or so hard-hitting – a storyline. But then the...

Footloose, in its original – exhilarating – film incarnation emerged as part of a collection of adolescent movies in the mid-80s (my own...

The Royal Court Studio has become one of the main spaces in Liverpool to showcase new work – not least from the playwrights who is...

It’s become part of Scouse folklore. So it was perhaps inevitable the (tallish) tale of the time a teenage Coleen McLoughlin chucked her...

If you’re going to stage a Beatles world premiere, there’s only one place you really want to do it. And Liverpool rolled out rousing...