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British pop rapper Tinchy Stryder to headline Wirral Festival

BRITISH rapper Tinchy Stryder is to headline the first major music festival due to be held in Wirral over the late May bank holiday weekend.Read

Shock warning to Liverpool Playhouse ttheatre-goers over new production Ghost Stories

PREGNANT women, young children and those of a nervous disposition are being advised against watching a new production at the Liverpool Playhouse.Read

Jimmy McGovern set to attend screening of Priest and Q and A session at FACT

LIVERPOOL writer Jimmy McGovern will attend a screening of his drama, Priest, at Picturehouse at FACT.Read

Julian Clary on turning 50 and that comment about Norman Lamont

SO RELIEVED that the experience of turning 50 wasn’t nearly as horrendous as he’d imagined, Julian Clary turned the revelation into a stand-up show.Read

REVIEW: Dancing in the Street, Liverpool Empire

STEVIE WONDER, Diana Ross, Lionel Richie, Marvin Gaye and the Four Tops impersonators were among artists aboard the carousel of hits on the Liverpool Empire stage last night.Read

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Joanna MacGregor talks about Mixing it Up with the RLPO

CLASSICAL concerts rarely come as varied as Joanna MacGregor’s with the RLPO on Thursday.Read

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Bob Golding on becoming national treasure Eric Morecambe in his one-man show at Liverpool Playhouse

Bob Golding tells Laura Davis about the challenges of imitating a national treasureRead

Kelly Clarkson talks music, Idol and those rumours

IF YOU searched in the dictionary for a definition of pop sensation, you might very well find two words. Kelly Clarkson.Read

Boyzone star Ronan Keating comes to Liverpool Empire

Who is he? Blonde 32-year-old Irish singer and sometime member of boyband Boyzone.Read

Film Review: The Princess and the Frog (U) Rating: llll

THE Princess and the Frog,the first Walt Disney film to include an African-American princess, is an enchanting reworking of the Grimm Brothers’ fairytale, set in New Orleans around the time of World War I.Read

Invictus: Clint Eastwood's shines spotlight on Nelson Mandela

ON FEBRUARY 11, 1990, when Nelson Mandela walked free from Robben Island after more than a quarter of a century in his eight feet by eight feet cell, he discovered a country divided by apartheid.Read

ITV1 Wild at Heart actress Dawn Steele - Out where the wild things are

THEY say one of the hardest gigs on television is working alongside animals. Well, when you’re filming a show set on a South African game park, you don’t really have much choice.Read

Rocking all over the Pops: Status Quo's ECHO Arena Liverpool gig

ROCK legends Status Quo are the latest act to sign up for the Summer Pops.Read

Fashion with a twist from Liverpool John Moores University

A FASHION show with a difference is set to be staged in south Liverpool by students from Liverpool Hope University.Read

Tmesis take The Dreadful Hours to the Everyman

TAKE two physical theatre practitioners, add a 20-something playwright and you get something totally unexpected.Read

THEATRE REVIEW: Neil LaBute’s A Trilogy at the Unity Theatre, Liverpool

PLAYWRIGHT Neil LaBute is pretty clear in his theatrical aims: “Get people laughing, then make that laugh stick in their throats. If that doesn’t work immediately, kick them in the stomach.”Read

The La’s Mike Badger holds first art retrospective at Merchant Taylors Girls School

FOUNDER member of 80s LIverpool band The La’s, Mike Badger, is holding his first art retrospective at a Crosby school.Read

Daily Post Arts Editor’s Pick of the Day: Thursday February 4, 2010

THEATRE: The much anticipated show Ghost Stories opens tonight. It’s written by the League of Gentleman’s Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman, above, who’s behind a lot of Derren Brown’s stage and TV shows. But that’s all we can say about it because up until now they’ve given nothing away except that it’s very, very scary.Playhouse until February 20, tickets £10-£20, 0151 709 4776.Read

Ex-Beatle Paul McCartney’s son James to play Liverpool concert

SIR Paul McCartney’s son, James, is keeping the family trade alive by going on his first ever tour starting in Liverpool – with songs partly inspired by The Beatles.Read