THEATRE: Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead launches tonight by Liverpool-based theatre company Lodestar. It received strong reviews for Hamlet last month and is following up the Shakespearean tragedy with the 20th-century cult play focusing on the lives of two of its minor characters.Novas Contemporary Urban Centre until September 13, tickets £8-£15 from www.theliverpoolshakespearefestival.co.uk
THEATRE: Children can join their favourite TV characters and Milkshake! presenters in a brand- new, action-packed all- singing, all-dancing musical extravaganza. Fifi & Bumble, Peppa & George, Rupert Bear, Little Princess, Noddy and Mr Bump all together on one stage.Liverpool Empire, today and tomorrow, tickets £14.50, 0844 847 2525.
EXHIBITION: Two-day exhibition marking the 70th anniversary of the start of World War Two includes photographs of wartime damage of Liverpool and Gdansk.Liverpool Town Hall until tomorrow.
