Catherine Jones

Home is where the heart is. There’s no place like home. And, as Maya Angelou noted, the ache for home lives in all of us.That ache is at the centre of writer-performer Dora Colquhoun’s latest production The Lodger – visiting the Unity for two nights at the end of a tour and which is an intriguing, off-kilter meditation on home, self, safety and that craving we all have for belonging somewhere and to something.Its creator plays a quartet of human characters, all with their own fears, foibles, hop

Liverpool comedy superstar John Bishop is taking to the road in 2025 to mark 25 years of stand-up - and he's bringing his live show to the M&S Bank Arena.

The Royal Shakespeare Company production will be at the Lime Street landmark from December 2 to January 4, 2026 as part of a tour of UK and Ireland and as the culmination of the Empire's own centenary celebrations.

It's nearly a decade – in fact pretty much the length of two Great Wars laid end to end – since the stage adaptation of Sebastian Faulks' sprawling yet claustrophobic Birdsong was last at the Playhouse.

With a scrumptious Sherman Brothers score, a faithful flying car and an enjoyably malevolent baddie, the stage version of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang possesses all the ingredients of a fine four-fendered family hit.

The actor and singer was originally due to miss the festive run at the Williamson Square venue, but he will now appear in the first seven shows before handing the reins to Stephen Webb for the remainder of the run.

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Liverpool's Hope Street Theatre is hosting a busy series of shows over the autumn with productions including dramas, comedies, spooky stories and Christmas panto capers.

Shakespeare wasn't averse to borrowing plots or characters from historic texts – and in turn his work has been the inspiration for playwrights, screenwriters, poets, artists, composers and choreographers.

Ground-breaking works by leading Black British artists are placed centre stage in a new exhibition at the Walker Art Gallery.