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Christmas events in Liverpool for 2025

Review: The Scouse Christmas Carol at Liverpool Royal Court ****1/2

Tate Liverpool reveals Ed Ruscha display for 2026

Letter to Brezhnev world premiere at Liverpool's Royal Court in 2026

Review: Fawlty Towers at the Liverpool Empire ****

Review: Rattle and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra at Philharmonic Hall *****

Review: Liverpool Mozart Orchestra at the Tung Auditorium ****

Paul Nicholas on his Major role at the Liverpool Empire

Review: Little Women at the Liverpool Playhouse ****

Iron Ladies the stars in Liverpool filmmakers' latest release

Letter to Brezhnev world premiere at Liverpool's Royal Court in 2026

A new stage version of much-loved Liverpool-based film Letter to Brezhnev will be given its world premiere at the city’s Royal Court next autumn. Frank Clarke, who wrote the screenplay for the 1985 classic, is creating a bespoke new production which will be staged at the Roe Street theatre from September 11 to October 10. Theresa and Elaine are young, beautiful and full of life. But they don’t think that will last long, because it’s 1985 and this is Kirby. Sergei and Peter ar

Paul Nicholas on his Major role at the Liverpool Empire

When Fawlty Towers was first broadcast in the 1970s, the series attracted millions of TV viewers. But it turns out Paul Nicholas wasn’t one of them. Because 50 years ago, the actor and singer was busy building a career on stage and screen and tended to find himself otherwise occupied at night. “I caught bits of it,” he explains, “but I was working a lot of the time, and it was pre being able to record programmes.” So when the he was asked if he was interested in playing the M

Review: Little Women at the Liverpool Playhouse ****

Those Little Women have been on a big journey over the course of 2025 with this sprightly new production of the classic coming-of-age tale crisscrossing the UK. But it’s apt the tour of a story which opens amid the brutal upheaval of the American Civil War should finish here in Liverpool, and in this week too. While it officially ended six months earlier, the American Civil War finally concluded on November 6, 1865, when Captain James Waddell sailed up the Mersey in the CSS S

Review: Lost Atoms at the Liverpool Playhouse ****

When a trio of Swansea university students formed a theatre company there in the mid-90s, little could they have imagined that they themselves would one day be studied in turn. But 30 years on, Frantic Assembly is on not one but several curricula, as the huge number of young people in the audience at the Liverpool Playhouse on opening night revealed. The company has a long association with Liverpool. One of its earliest successes was Wirral playwright Michael Wynne’s Sell Out