Key Liverpool Arts Events

Apr 22 2008 by Phil Key, Liverpool Daily Post

MUSICAL: Joe McGann, part of Liverpool’s McGann acting fraternity, returns to his home town to star in Fiddler on the Roof, the Broadway musical which made a star of Topol. It is set in Czarist Russia of 1905 where milkman Tevye is trying to marry off his five daughters. Songs include If I Were a Rich Man and Sunrise, Sunset. Opens tonight, 7.30pm, Liverpool Empire. Tickets £12.50-£32.50. Until Saturday. 0844 847 2525.

RECITAL: Paul Lewis, one of Britain’s brightest young pianists, won the South Bank Show Classical Music Award in 2003 for his Schubert Sonata series. It is appropriate that he includes one of them in this Liverpool recital. Three other pieces including two by Mozart and one by Hungarian composer Gyorgy Ligeti, Musica Ricercata (11 Pieces for Piano). Tonight, 7.30pm, Concert Room, St George’s Hall. 0151 709 3789.

EXHIBITION: AL + AL are two film-makers with a new film commissioned by FACT, Eternal Youth. A mixture of human actors and computer-generated images, it is the story of an obsessed fan who plans to kill a rock singer. Two previous films also showing. Today, 11am-6pm, FACT, Wood Street. Timed entry to film. Free. Until June 8. 0151 707 4450.