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Liverpool International Jazz Festival 2026 line-up

There are certain shows and stories that strike a deeply-felt chord with Liverpool audiences. Blood Brothers is one, and Twopence to...

Romantic love and death have long been artistic bedfellows, the inspiration for great literature and art, from Tristan and Isolde to...

Tim Firth and Take That’s musical has recently seen its run extended in to 2019 – a good gauge perhaps of just what a chord this tale of...

After Sgt Pepper – complete with bells, whistles and confetti – at the arena last week, the RLPO is back to regular business in Hope...

It was 10 years ago today – well, OK, give or take 24 hours – the Echo Arena was christened with a fanfare, Britannia, a real Beatle and...

There’s hardly a household in Britain that hasn’t been affected by one of this winter’s range of illnesses – and it seems the lurgy has...

It’s Liverpool’s most lavish panto of them all – and this year it’s also the final one to open its doors. But while the Empire might be...

Deck the halls with boughs of holly, flank the stage with a pair of conical Christmas trees…..and, in a colourful finale, why not dress...

It wouldn’t be Christmas without a visit to Neverland – because after all, who can put the ‘pan’ in to panto if not for Peter? So step...

In a world of Cinderellas, Snow Whites and Peter Pans, the Unity Theatre has always resolutely ploughed its own festive storytelling...