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Liverpool Irish Festival 2026 says I Am Here
Liverpool Irish Festival is taking place this month with the theme for 2026 being I Am Here. The annual festival, now in its 24th year, runs until next Sunday, October 25. The celebration is the UK’s largest arts and culture-led festival and the 2026 programme covers almost 40 events and exhibits - some free, some ticketed - including music, theatre and performance, talks and tours, visual arts, film, literary voices and family activities. I Am Here ‘explores what it means to
Christmas Shows and Pantos in Liverpool and beyond in 2026
Christmas is on the horizon – oh yes, it is – and that means just one thing. It’s panto time again. A century ago, pantomimes opened on Christmas Eve and ran through well into the New Year. Over the intervening years, however, the start of the festive season has got earlier and earlier with the first shows in 2026 opening in early November. As usual the Royal Court and the Everyman are the vanguard of the festive frivolity, but there are also a host of other seasonal shows cl
La Feria returns to Liverpool this October
Liverpool will be alive with the sights and sounds of Latin America when the city’s La Feria Festival takes place next week. The annual international festival is now in its eighth year, and the 2026 event will be held between October 7-11 at venues across the city. La Feria is run by Luma Creations and aims to celebrate Latin American arts and cultures with a programme of music, theatre, dance, workshops, crafts, exhibitions and food. The 2026 festival opens on Wednesday, Oct
Shows on Liverpool stages this October
Autumn, the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness – and also of a plethora of new productions in Liverpool’s theatres. Several productions which opened last month are continuing into October, among them Titanic drama Unsinkable, which runs at the Hope Street Theatre until October 3. You can catch Arthur Miller’s classic Death of a Salesman at the Liverpool Everyman until October 10. And down the road at the Royal Court, the new stage version of Frank Clarke’s Letter to Brez
Physical Fest 2026 full programme announced
Physical Fest returns this month promising six days of the best and boldest new local, national and international work. The 2026 edition of Liverpool’s international festival of contemporary physical theatre runs from September 7-12 with a programme of workshops, events and performances. Produced by the city’s Tmesis Theatre, Physical Fest was founded in 2005 and celebrates some of the world’s most exciting visual and movement-based performance. The performance programme, whi
11 shows to catch in Liverpool this autumn
The summer may still be at its height but given how fast June and July have sped past it won’t be long until the autumn theatre season is upon us. And there is a packed programme of treats at Liverpool’s many venues this year. From big budget musicals to intimate dramas, high comedy to high tragedy, local stories to international tales, and classic texts to thought-provoking new work, there’s plenty for lovers of live theatre to choose from between September and Christmas. Se
Review: No One Will Tell Me How to Start a Revolution at the Unity Theatre ****
Liverpool playwright Luke Barnes’ No One Will Tell me How to Start a Revolution is a furious and often intensely funny exploration of working-class identity, social (im)mobility, class prejudice and quashed potential. It started life almost a decade ago in the leafy and decidedly middle-class north London enclave of Hampstead. And while the theatre there has a longstanding reputation as a bastion of new writing, this latest incarnation (one night only - but with the hope of a
Review: Near Miss at the Unity Theatre ****
The Unity is currently celebrating its rich cultural and political heritage. But while looking back, it’s worth noting it’s the ongoing commitment to supporting and nurturing new writing which remains central to its programme in the here and now. This includes Near Miss, the second in the ‘Watching Windows’ trilogy of semi-autobiographical works by Liverpool teacher, actor, director and latterly playwright Helena Rand. The first, Rotten Apple, a story of love, ambition and a
Shows to enjoy at Liverpool theatres in July
It may be the summer months, but theatres rarely go completely dark any more and there’s still plenty to enjoy on stage in the city throughout July. Over at the Everyman, YEP (Young Everyman Playhouse) is presenting its own version of the Jekyll and Hyde story, radically reimagined by Evan Placey for the digital age. The story of ambition, addiction and the monsters we hide (online and ‘IRL’) runs from July 2-4 at the Hope Street theatre. Meanwhile roll up roll up, the Empire
Liverpool's Unity theatre explores its radical history and tradition
Liverpool’s Unity Theatre is exploring its own radical history this spring in a Heritage Lottery-funded programme of events. A Radical Re-imagining encompasses theatre, music, art, workshops, talks and panel discussions and community events and includes a special archival exhibition at Liverpool John Moores University’s Mount Pleasant Campus Library. And the celebratory season will culminate in a specially devised new production, Stage Left, at the Hope Place theatre on June
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