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FACT'S latest exhibition is for the meeple
An interactive exhibition which investigates the relationship between humanity and intelligent technologies is being staged at FACT this spring. Can Meeple Escape the Neurophoria?, which is in the first-floor gallery at the Wood Street venue until April 26, aims to explore the ways in which connections evolve and develop between co-existing humans and machines – and how intelligent technology influences decision-making and shapes our sense of ourselves. Meeple is the term for
Liverpool Year of the Horse celebrations announced
Liverpool will mark Year of the Horse with events and activities this month including performances, parades and two huge lantern installations. The Lunar New Year, or Chinese New Year, officially begins on February 17 for 2026, with celebrations taking place in Liverpool’s Chinatown on February 21 and 22. Ahead of that, from February 14 onwards, thousands of red lanterns will return to Liverpool streets around Chinatown, Liverpool ONE and the Royal Albert Dock, while key city
Cast revealed for Little Shop of Horrors at Liverpool Playhouse
Liverpool favourite Michael Starke will return to the Playhouse this Christmas to appear in a new production of Little Shop of Horrors. He will play flower shop owner Mr Mushnik in the cult comedy-sci fi musical which comes to the Williamson Square theatre from December 3 to January 9, 2027. Starke previously appeared at the Playhouse for Christmas in 2016 when he played the Chairman in Michael Wynne’s music hall show The Star to mark the 150 th anniversary of the theatre. T
Liverpool's dot-art celebrates 20th anniversary year
Award-winning Liverpool independent gallery and arts consultancy dot-art is marking its 20 th anniversary this year with a programme of exhibitions, special events and activities. The anniversary year opened last night with the official launch of a new exhibition – TWENTY – at the dot-art space at INNSiDE in Old Hall Street, featuring 20 large-scale works by 20 artists including Nathan Pendlebury, Barbara Derecka and muralist Joe Venning. Then on February 13 a second new sho
Liverpool theatre shows this February
With New Year now in the rear-view mirror, Easter on the far horizon and nights definitely getting just that little bit lighter, it’s the ideal time to squeeze in a trip to the theatre – or three. Liverpool venues have live performance covered in the shortest month of the year with a range of productions from big and bold musicals to intimate storytelling, and from comedy to hard-hitting drama. February kicks off with a return to the Empire stage for Tudor smash hit SIX the M
The Reader reveals spring season of events at Calderstones
The Reader is celebrating National Year of Reading 2026 with a series of events at its Calderstones Mansion base this spring. The spring programme takes place between March 1 and May 31 and includes literary events, wellbeing workshops, an Easter book hunt, Holi festival and Mothering Sunday celebrations, a four-week Deep Read and Mini-Movies alongside regular Reader events and classes. Holi at the Storybarn on Saturday, March 7, is a collaboration with MILAP (Indian Arts and
Review: The Ghost of Graves End at the Unity Theatre ****1/2
Two months after his one-woman tragi-comedy Stella roared on to the Unity stage, busy Liverpool playwright Robert Farquhar is back with another whirlwind of a show. And if you are a fan of Farquhar, and particularly his work with - the now sadly defunct – Big Wow, a sucker for a chilling theatrical experience or a lover of off-the-wall comedy, you won’t want to miss it. Ostensibly an affectionate homage to, and send-up of, ghost stories like Susan Hill’s ever popular The Wom
Review: KITTEL at the Unity Theatre ****
Everyone is aware of the phrase – all it takes for evil to thrive is for good men to do nothing. Good and evil is, in theory at least, binary and stark. Black and white. Right and wrong. But reality, that place where good intentions and moral certainties come up against human frailty – greed, ambition, cowardice, self-interest, indifference - is much more grey and muddy than that. Catherine Harrison’s quietly powerful and thought-provoking new play, brought to the Unity Theat
Review: Tabakova Accordion Concerto at the Liverpool Philharmonic ****1/2
While this Thursday night concert on a chill January evening was officially billed as 'Rachmaninov Symphony No.3', it was really all about the accordion with the UK premiere of a new concerto from the ebullient Bulgarian-British composer Dobrinka Tabakova. And who better to perform it than Ksenija Sidorova, whose artistry with what is essentially a portable organ (albeit a backbreakingly heavy one at 20kg/three-and-a-half stone in old money) is unparalleled. If you’ve ever tr
Follow the Dream at Shakespeare North this February
A Midsummer Night’s Dream is at Shakespeare North Playhouse this week, direct from the Globe in London. Shakespeare’s much-loved sprite-ly comedy is being staged at the Prescot venue’s Cockpit Theatre until tomorrow at the start of a national tour. The show, which explores the darker side of the Bard's seemingly mischievous tale, is a co-production between Shakespeare’s Globe and Headlong (with Bristol Old Vic and Leeds Playhouse). To escape a society ruled by tyrannical law,
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