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Celebrations to mark Tate Liverpool’s 20th birthday

THE Tate Liverpool – celebrating its 20th birthday – is not allowing the anniversary to go by unnoticed. Read

Beatles Story in Liverpool

Beatles Story to host first its Literary Festival

.THERE have been more books written about The Beatles than practically any other music act in the world. Read

The 'lamb-lounger' design for Superlambanana

New functional design for Superlambanana

LIVERPOOL’S iconic Superlambanana has been given a utilitarian purpose by turning it into a lounger. The half-lamb-half-banana statue is currently part of a Go Superlambanana campaign as part of Liverpool’s year as Capital of Culture. Read

A comedy classic with the spirit of a Cultural city

A comedy classic with the spirit of a Cultural city

ONE OF the most eagerly anticipated theatrical events in Liverpool in 2008 is the world premiere of Liverpool poet Roger McGough’s adaptation of French writer Moliere’s 17th-century comedy classic Tartuffe, at the Liverpool Playhouse. Read

Comic makes it short but sweet

Ken Dodd makes it short but sweet

KEN DODD gave his shortest-ever stage performance yesterday – but one of the most important for New Brighton. Read

The Ghost Sonata, Palm House, Sefton park

THEATRE REVIEW: The Ghost Sonata, Palm House, Sefton Park, Liverpool

SWEDISH playwright August Strindberg’s The Ghost Sonata has its 100th anniversary marked this year in Liverpool with an extraordinary production from People Show based around the Palm House in Sefton Park. Read

The Everyman Theatre, Hope Street, Liverpool

Theatrical rejects work on the hoof

THE Liverpool theatre company Rejects Revenge may have been killed off earlier this year by Arts Council cuts but the name is lingering on. Read

Joe McGann as Tevye in the stage version of Fiddler on the Roof

THEATRE REVIEW: Fiddler on the Roof, Liverpool Empire Theatre

FIDDLER on the Roof is one of those Broadway musicals which must have looked unpromising on paper, with its story of a Jewish pogrom in a small Russian village of 1905. Read

MUSIC: Southport festival show is visually stunning

IT ALL began when composer Ethan Lewis Maltby was asked to create a percussion ensemble for non percussionists at the university in Canterbury where he was teaching. Read

Mary Duff, Irish singing diva

Irish diva Mary Duff visits Liverpool to promote new album

IRISH singer Mary Duff was in Liverpool in a slight change of pace for her. She was not with her regular on- stage partner Daniel O’Donnell – and she wasn’t singing. Read

Rock Hudson, Hollywood screen legend

The Rock who conquered Hollywood

A NEW play charts the relationship between legendary actor Rock Hudson and his agent Henry Wilson. Philip Key reports Read

Liverpool artist Richard Meaghan at his exhibition at the View Two Gallery in Mathew Street

EXHIBITION: Artist Richard Meaghan’s dream show in his home town

LIVERPOOL artist Richard Meaghan is a busy man, with four exhibitions all opening at around the same time. Read

Key Liverpool Arts events

THEATRE: Samuel Beckett’s curious play Endgame gets a new production from the Everyman company with Matthew Kelly, above, and his son Matthew Rixon in a remarkable double act as Hamm and Clov, a sort of Steptoe and Son relationship with chair-bound Hamm nagging away at the servile Clov, who is unable to sit down. What’s it all about? You decide. Tonight, 7.45pm, Liverpool Everyman. Tickets £12. Until May 3. 0151 709 4776. Read

Liverpool writer Alan Bleasdale

Alan Bleasdale talks about his play On the Ledge

SO, WHAT ever happen- ed to Alan Bleasdale? The Liverpool writer whose television series and stage plays were always an event has been strangely absent from both areas in recent years. Read

Fool's Gold

Film Review: Fool's Gold


THERE are some times when watching a film that you start wondering why the people involved bothered. Read

EXHIBITION: Art In The Age Of Steam, Walker, Liverpool

IS THERE romance in the railways? Not these days for the many commuters herded together on rush-hour trains. Read

Matthew Rixon and Matthew Kelly in Endgame at the Liverpool Everyman

THEATRE REVIEW: Endgame, Liverpool Everyman

YOU can understand why theatre people love Samuel Beckett. They must adore to play his larger-than-life characters, tackle his nonsense dialogue and play with all the theatrical trickery he gives them. Read

Philip McHugh

Director switches to hi-tech actor’s role

PHILIP McHUGH has been many things – singer, artist, writer, poet, film-maker and house-husband. Now you can add actor to the list. Read

Andrew Buchan in The Man Who Had All The Luck, Liverpool Playhouse

THEATRE REVIEW: The Man Who Had All The Luck, Liverpool Playhouse

THE title of Arthur Miller’s early play The Man Who Had All the Luck explains the plot but not its subtle nuances. Read

Composer George Benjamin

Composer George Benjamin realises his opera ambition

AS A 13-year-old schoolboy, George Benjamin wrote his first opera with a friend. It was based on the story of the Pied Piper but never performed. Read

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Arts Editor Philip Key spends his week attending and reporting on the numerous live arts events in Liverpool. Plays the banjo ukulele, collects classic true crime books and performs (badly) magic tricks. Tel: 0151 472 2499

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