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Christmas events in Liverpool for 2025

Liverpool Playhouse Studio is hosting the world premiere next month of an ‘intoxicating’ new two-hander which fuses music and...

December 1961 was an eventful one for four lads from Liverpool. The month started with a meeting in the office at NEMS in Whitechapel...

Footloose, in its original – exhilarating – film incarnation emerged as part of a collection of adolescent movies in the mid-80s (my own...

The Royal Court Studio has become one of the main spaces in Liverpool to showcase new work – not least from the playwrights who is...

It’s become part of Scouse folklore. So it was perhaps inevitable the (tallish) tale of the time a teenage Coleen McLoughlin chucked her...

The Shawshank Redemption was nominated for seven Oscars when it hit our cinema screens in 1994. Now the prison drama is coming to the...

Florence Foster Jenkins is returning to Liverpool 10 years after the city was used as a location for the film – but this time the ‘worst...

Music, memory and ‘the ghosts that history forgets’ are at the heart of a new tale being given its world premiere in the Liverpool...

Liverpool Everyman rep alumni Matthew Kelly and George Costigan are set to reunite on stage at the Hope Street venue in 2026. The pair...

It was the film that made everyone look a lot more closely at their housemates. Now 90s psychological thriller Single White Female is...