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Africa Oyé announces first acts for 2026 festival

Twelve months ago, Sean Jones should have been in rehearsals for the Floral Pavilion’s festive panto. After a successful run in Snow...

It seems that for Ben Richards all roads lead to Liverpool. Because while the stage and screen actor may have been born on the south...

You don’t have to have a working knowledge to enjoy this swift and sly celebration of musical theatre – but there’s no doubt it helps....

Smash hit stage sensation Anything Goes is coming to the Liverpool Empire as part of a UK tour next spring. The acclaimed Barbican...

Jonathan Larkin’s new play Cherry Jezebel will be given its world premiere at the Liverpool Everyman next spring. The production by the...

It’s 50 years since Grease first hit the stage, and more than four decades since John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John took the big screen...

The circus is coming to St Helens this Christmas – but you won’t find Timothy Lucas juggling or fire breathing. “I’ll probably be the...

The Royal Court’s Christmas show has been struck by Covid. Four members of the cast of The Scouse Sleeping Beauty, which was due to open...

On October 5, 1984, Leonard Rossiter was in his dressing room at London’s Lyric Theatre where he was appearing in a revival of Joe...

She’s been an airline pilot in Scouse of the Rising Sun, a shepherd in the Scouse Nativity, and for the last two years she’s donned...