Liverpool Theatre Festival to return for third year with special fringe event in May

Organisers of the award-winning Liverpool Theatre Festival have announced its return for a third consecutive year, with the festival’s sister event Little LTF also returning. Liverpool Theatre Festival was first staged in September 2020 to boost the city’s live performance and creative arts sectors following the devastating impact of the COVID-19 ... Read More...

Liverpool’s Unity Theatre to present first live indoor performance since March closure

Liverpool's Unity Theatre is to present a one-man play starring TV and stage actor Andrew Lancel - its first live indoor performance since closing in March. Following its critically acclaimed sell-out premiere at Liverpool Theatre Festival in September, Swan Song, a revised comedy by acclaimed playwright Jonathan Harvey, will commence a ... Read More...

Live performance festival at St Luke’s Bombed Out Church to support Liverpool’s ‘devastated’ theatre scene

Liverpool theatre producer Bill Elms has created a nine-day outdoor live performance festival to support the city’s "devastated" theatre scene in the wake of the Coronavirus pandemic. Liverpool Theatre Festival will take place between Friday 11 September and Saturday 19 September 2020 and is being staged in association with the team ... Read More...

‘By The Waters Of Liverpool’ to be remounted in 2021 as producers vow not to be defeated by virus

This week, the stage production of Helen Forrester’s 'By The Waters Of Liverpool' was ground to a halt just three venues into a seventeen venue UK tour. This was due to the Prime Minister's statement on Monday, advising the public to avoid unnecessary social contact, including theatres. The show’s producers have announced ... Read More...

‘Lennon’s Banjo’ show to raise cash for Strawberry Field redevelopment

Theatre goers can help support Liverpool’s Strawberry Field redevelopment when a fundraising campaign gets underway. The project to transform the iconic South Liverpool site will benefit from donations given during the Epstein Theatre’s forthcoming ‘Lennon’s Banjo’ show. There will be a collection at the end of each performance of the production, which ... Read More...