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Outdoor cinema brings film favourites to Calderstones this summer
Open-air cinema comes to Calderstones Mansion this summer with a handpicked selection of films set to be shown on a big screen. The eight...


Calderstones Mansion announces 2025 open-air season shows
Five open-air touring productions will be staged in the Garden Theatre at Calderstones Mansion this summer. Travelling theatre troupes...


Jacqueline Roy In Conversation at Calderstones
Novelist and writer Jacqueline Roy will take part in a special ‘in conversation’ at Liverpool’s Calderstones Mansion this weekend. The...


Open Air Theatre at Calderstones this summer
Shakespeare and Sherlock come to the open-air theatre at Calderstones Mansion House this summer. The Reader, which runs the South...


Christmas story trail returns to Calderstones Park
The Christmas Story Trail returns to Liverpool’s Calderstones Park to entertain families for the festive season. The self-led trail,...


Open Air Theatre in Liverpool City Region this summer
The British summer is upon us – and it wouldn’t be summer without open-air theatre popping up in parks, gardens and more unusual spots....


The Reader's Gravity Festival returns for 2022
The Responder writer Tony Schumacher, novelists Lissa Evans and Kit de Waal and author and screenwriter Frank Cottrell Boyce will all...


Calderstones hosts Globe's open air Julius Caesar
Shakespeare’s Globe returns to The Reader at Calderstones next month to perform in the mansion house’s historic art deco garden theatre....


The Reader launches new literature festival 'for the Covid era'
Maxine Peake and Jimmy McGovern are among the names taking part in a new Liverpool literature festival next month. Gravity, which runs in...


Music and literature combine in Calderstones garden concert series
Music comes to the 1940s Art Deco garden theatre at Calderstones this summer in a new initiative which marries melody and literature. The...
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