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By George! Here's a Christmas cracker Scot's great venture

FORMER Merseybeat actor Scot Williams has been working transatlantic since the ending of the TV police series. Read

By George! Here's a Christmas cracker

GEORGE Costigan's flying visit to the Playhouse for Christmas is just that. Read

How James got to be a superstar

EUROVISION and Fame Academy favourite James Fox makes his theatrical debut playing the baddie this Christmas. Read

Debut night at the opera

CALLING all opera virgins. Not my choice of phrase to spice up a night at the theatre, but rather that of Welsh National Opera who are experimenting with audience-building in Liverpool next week. Read

Everyman Theatre, Liverpool - a star cast in September, 1974 included Julie Walters, Mathew Kelly and Bill Nighy

Honour for our 'third cathedral'

I wager that no other theatre in the UK is staging a better show this weekend. Read

Get your Phil of the marimba

HOW familiar are you with the sound of the marimba? Read

Home, James

GERALDINE James, veteran star of such telegems as Jewel In The Crown and Band Of Gold, has good reason to remember her last appearance at Liverpool Playhouse. Read

Alison trumps age-old assumptions

ALISON Balsom does far more than blow her own trumpet. Read

Ralph Kirshbaum & RLPO, Philharmonic Hall

RALPH Kirshbaum is a global musician with local connections. Read

Gene's fighting fit

GENE Pitney was always one of the good guys of pop - and remains so at the age of 63. Read

An urban legend from a high-rise

LAURENCE Wilson's new play, Urban Legend, is set in a flat on the 13th floor of a Bootle high rise. Read

Irish festival is back

THE most Irish City outside of Ireland is busy celebrating its second annual Irish Festival. Read

Victorian art show

PAINTINGS by a Wirral-born Victorian artist, who so loved a Cornish valley that he added its name to his signature, are being shown at Warrington gallery. Read

The Everyman Bistro, Hope Street, Liverpool

Everyman Bistro, Hope Street, Liverpool

IN THIS case, it really was a case of utilizing that tired old cliché, food for thought. Read

Just chill at the Phil

FOLLOWING their concert at the Royal Albert Hall last night the musicians of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic are back on home ground tonight for a musical miscellany with a difference. Read

I turned down Paul

HE became world famous as the man who foiled Paul McCartney's attempt to join Liverpool cathedral choir. Read

Organ Improvisation Festival, Liverpool Cathedral

ALL performance improvisation - bar twists mid-bungee jump - carries suspicions of that old Blue Peter tag: "Here's one I made earlier." Read

Musical Director for the Phil, Gerard Schwarz

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonic Hall

IF THERE is a subliminal lesson to be learned from Saturday's Philharmonic concert, it is that orchestras have been as much fun for composers to play with as to rely on for their daily bread. Read

Cathedral pulls out all the stops

JAZZ musicians do it all the time. So much so that most people (wrongly) believe none of them can read music. Read

Arts My simple moral is tolerance

TONY Green's first major stage play centres on the story of an unsuccessful asylum seeker in Liverpool. Read

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