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Brilliant shows heading for Liverpool in 2026

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

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

Multi-award-winning musical Moulin Rouge! is set to can-can into Liverpool next summer as part of its first ever world tour. The stunning...

Back to the Future the Musical is heading for Liverpool as part of its inaugural tour – but fans will have to be patient as it won’t be...

It’s been quite the summer, but now the nights are drawing in there’s few things better than to settle down indoors and enjoy a good...

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...

There may still be plenty of summer ahead of us but it’s never too early to start planning for autumn attractions – including of course...

Sixty years ago this year, a young would-be lyricist penned a speculative letter to an even younger aspiring composer. “I was told you...

September 1985. The wreck of the Titanic was discovered, England regained the Ashes, there was rioting in Handsworth and Brixton – and a...