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Liverpool International Jazz Festival 2026 line-up

Smash-hit Hamilton is coming to the Liverpool Empire for a five week stay – but fans will have to wait until 2025 to catch the...

Having delivered his Nutcracker! in 1992, and his singular Swan Lake in 1995, it took Matthew Bourne the best part of two decades to...

Christmas may be fast receding in the rear-view mirror of memory. But although we’re no longer in traditional panto season, Liverpool...

A lot has happened since the Lincoln Center Theater’s lavish-looking production of The King and I last swept on to the stage at the...

Pretty Woman: The Musical is embarking on its first UK tour – and it’s heading for Liverpool to kickstart 2024. The show, based on the...

Alan Parker’s colourful confection of gangsters and showgirls has entertained generations of youngsters since it burst on to the big...

A West End show based on the ‘Wagatha Christie’ libel case is set to come to the Liverpool Empire. Vardy v Rooney: The Wagatha Christie...

Playwright Conor McPherson has spent his career placing disparate characters in isolated or bleak settings (bedsits, seaside suburbs, a...

Twelve months after its Christmas residency, Dreamgirls is back at the Empire for the final hurrah of its inaugural UK tour – and if the...

Liverpool is lucky to have such a wide range of theatres and performance spaces, all presenting exciting and thought-provoking theatre –...