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Liverpool Irish Festival 2026 says I Am Here
Liverpool Irish Festival is taking place this month with the theme for 2026 being I Am Here. The annual festival, now in its 24th year, runs until next Sunday, October 25. The celebration is the UK’s largest arts and culture-led festival and the 2026 programme covers almost 40 events and exhibits - some free, some ticketed - including music, theatre and performance, talks and tours, visual arts, film, literary voices and family activities. I Am Here ‘explores what it means to
Christmas Shows and Pantos in Liverpool and beyond in 2026
Christmas is on the horizon – oh yes, it is – and that means just one thing. It’s panto time again. A century ago, pantomimes opened on Christmas Eve and ran through well into the New Year. Over the intervening years, however, the start of the festive season has got earlier and earlier with the first shows in 2026 opening in early November. As usual the Royal Court and the Everyman are the vanguard of the festive frivolity, but there are also a host of other seasonal shows cl
Review: 5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche at the Hope Street Theatre ***1/2
Evan Linder and Andrew Hobgood’s atomic satire 5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche has become something of a fringe favourite since it was premiered 15 years ago. It picked up two awards at the 2012 NYC International Fringe Festival, including best overall production, and this summer made its way across the pond to delight festivalgoers north of the border in Scotland. Meanwhile this coming week another production is due to be staged as part of London’s Lambeth Fringe. Now it can also
Review: Unsinkable at the Hope Street Theatre ****
An excerpt of Unsinkable reached the final of Tip Tray Theatre’s 2025 What Happens Next? new writing competition. What happened next was a sold-out staged reading of the Titanic-themed drama, and now finally, this week, a much-anticipated, full-length, five performance run at the Hope Street Theatre. There have been several maritime disasters with much greater loss of life – both in war and in peace. And yet more than a century after it had its fateful meeting with an iceberg
Liverpool Fringe Festival 2026 full programme details
Liverpool Fringe Festival is celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2026 with a packed 12-day programme of performances. This year’s festival runs from October 6-17 at venues across the city centre. More than 30 different shows will be staged during the 2026 event which aims to act as a platform for talent and which is accessible to everyone. The festival’s main base will be the Studio Beyond in Wood Street where most of the productions will be performed. But among other festiva
Shows on Liverpool stages this October
Autumn, the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness – and also of a plethora of new productions in Liverpool’s theatres. Several productions which opened last month are continuing into October, among them Titanic drama Unsinkable, which runs at the Hope Street Theatre until October 3. You can catch Arthur Miller’s classic Death of a Salesman at the Liverpool Everyman until October 10. And down the road at the Royal Court, the new stage version of Frank Clarke’s Letter to Brez
11 shows to catch in Liverpool this autumn
The summer may still be at its height but given how fast June and July have sped past it won’t be long until the autumn theatre season is upon us. And there is a packed programme of treats at Liverpool’s many venues this year. From big budget musicals to intimate dramas, high comedy to high tragedy, local stories to international tales, and classic texts to thought-provoking new work, there’s plenty for lovers of live theatre to choose from between September and Christmas. Se
Lennon and Epstein relationship explored in new play
The relationship between John Lennon and Beatles manager Brian Epstein is explored in a new play being staged in Liverpool to coincide with International Beatle Week next month. Of All These Friends and Lovers is at the Hope Street Theatre between August 25-29. The show comes from the city’s Old Fruit Jar Productions whose previous acclaimed productions include The Incident Room and It’s a Wonderful Life and is presented in association with the Hope Street Theatre. It is writ
Shows to enjoy at Liverpool theatres in July
It may be the summer months, but theatres rarely go completely dark any more and there’s still plenty to enjoy on stage in the city throughout July. Over at the Everyman, YEP (Young Everyman Playhouse) is presenting its own version of the Jekyll and Hyde story, radically reimagined by Evan Placey for the digital age. The story of ambition, addiction and the monsters we hide (online and ‘IRL’) runs from July 2-4 at the Hope Street theatre. Meanwhile roll up roll up, the Empire
Review: Tangfastic at the Hope Street Theatre ***
The Hope Street Theatre has proved a real asset to the city’s live performance scene since it opened, offering a versatile space for smaller companies and rising talent to showcase work (and work in progress) which previously found a home at places like the Lantern or Liverpool Actor’s Studio. Work like Tangfastic, an audaciously unpredictable and provocatively lairy black comedy penned by 2024 LIPA graduates Rio Star and Juliette Collins. The duo previously appeared together
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