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Under the Mersey Moon Review – A Promising Story Let Down by Painfully Weak Performances at Floral Pavilion ★★☆☆☆
Starring Billy Butler, Lesley Butler, Sam Heller, Sam Alton, Christopher Lee Power, Adam Johnson, Catherine Howard, Leslie Longley, Sarah-Lou Fletcher, Jodie White, Jimmy Rae and

The Peaceful Hour 2 Review – A Hilarious, Utterly Scouse Comedy Smash at Liverpool’s Royal Court ★★★★☆
Hilarious, utterly scouse and highly entertaining! If you want an uplifting night of belly laughing wrapped unsubtly in scouse humour, then the sequel to one

The Memory of Water Review (Liverpool Everyman): A Powerful, Poignant 30th Anniversary Revival ★★★★☆
This was unashamedly raw, poignant and utterly relatable! For me, it has been a considerable time since I have watched a play that left me

Matthew Bourne’s The Red Shoes, Liverpool Empire, 24.2.2026
The plot of The Red Shoes centres on a ballet company staging their version of Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy story of the same name, involving

Illyria’s The Wind in the Willows at Claremont Farm 28.8.2025
I know that The Wind in the Willows has a dear place in the hearts of those who read it as children. However, I’ve never

Philip Lassiter Brings High-Voltage Funk & Soul to Liverpool’s Philharmonic Music Room – 3 February 2026
Review & photos by Gary Dougherty If you look back over the last decade or so, you may notice that Liverpool can have an issue attracting
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Selected Poetry: Autumn 2025 – Eds. David Hanlon & Katie Jenkins (Digital)
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Beautiful Little Fools: Poetry of Glamour, Obsession, and the Gilded Age
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Rainbows in the Rough: The Unlikely Queer Icons That Shaped a Closeted Queen – Shaun Ponsonby
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out.skirts: an anthology of LGBTQIA writing
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Glow: City at Night Poetry
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