Arts City Liverpool

1 week ago | artscityliverpool.com | Catherine Jones

Catherine Jones6 minutes ago2 min readShakespeare North Playhouse has announced it is looking for a ‘naming rights partner’ to help support its work. The multi-award-winning Prescot playhouse, which was officially opened three years ago, hopes any deal with a commercial sponsor could be worth more than £300,000 a year.

1 week ago | artscityliverpool.com | Catherine Jones

Catherine Jones14 minutes ago1 min readSmash hit musical SIX is on its way back to the Liverpool Empire. The all-singing, all-dancing queens will be on stage at the Lime Street landmark from February 3-7, 2026 as part of a UK tour. Tickets go on general sale tomorrow at 11am. Winner of more than 35 national and international accolades, including two Tony Awards, the Tudor take-off has previously enjoyed sell-out success in the city.

1 week ago | artscityliverpool.com | Catherine Jones

Woolton Picture House could be reopened as a cinema once again after a deal was agreed to buy the building for the community. The historic picture palace closed its doors during the Covid pandemic, and despite a well-supported GoFundMe campaign and a grant from the Culture Recovery Fund, over the last five doors its doors have remained shut.

1 week ago | artscityliverpool.com | Catherine Jones

John Godber’s dandy new comedy The Highwayman rides in to Prescot in June to entertain audiences at Shakespeare North Playhouse. It’s 1769, and everyone is flocking north; every ale house is packed with the great and the bad. The North is the place to be - a region drunk on making money, social climbing, gambling and gin, but with wealth in abundance, the temptation is great.

2 weeks ago | artscityliverpool.com | Catherine Jones

How do you recreate a classic cinematic spy thriller with big screen set pieces that include an aerial attack scene and a dramatic denouement on the face of a gigantic national monument – on stage and with six people? It’s quite the challenge. But happily, one that director Emma Rice and those endlessly inventive scamps at her Bristol-based touring theatre company Wise Children prove up to in this wily and witty adaptation at the Playhouse this week.