Emma Palmer finds that a potent mix of Marxism, wrestling, revolution and acid house combine to make Manchester Art Gallery’s latest exhibition… Exploring Britain’s rapid growth under the Industrial Revolution, Jeremy Deller’s new exhibition, All...
We’ve been waiting for ages, it seems, but the Everyman theatre is soon to open its doors to the public. The building, which has been completely re-designed by architects Haworth Tompkins, is set...
Popstar, rockstar, photographer, chameleon: Pete Goodbody puts aside his preconceptions and introduces himself to the new Boy George… It’s Bonfire Night and Boy George is on Later with Jools. He’s sporting a beard that’s not...
Rose Parish discovers a life rich with ideas, poetry and performance in this offbeat exhibition… ABC in Sound is an exhibition about the late Bob Cobbing (1920-2002) curated by Biennial project curator Rosie...
Revolutionary thought and ideas inform a new exhibition and Tate Liverpool’s future, finds Laura Robertson… How ‘left’ is Tate? Alongside the corporate sponsors and blockbuster artists, lies an organisation responsible for rejuvenating an...
Jennie Tsai arrived at the Liverpool Playhouse in search of a grand gesture; she found that and more in a new production of a banned Russian play… Lively, light and literary – The...
C James Fagan finds himself surprised and seduced by Homotopia’s Dance Triple Bill… There’s a heightened sense of excitement as I enter the Unity’s theatre space for Homotopia’s Dance Triple Bill. Once the...
C James Fagan steels himself for an ‘erotically charged’ evening of ‘the abject, the shocking, and the profane’… Somewhere tonight three people are setting out on a destructive path. Caught in a hermetic world,...
A new exhibition occupies gallery space at two very different Liverpool institutions, but to what end, asks Mike Pinnington… The Walker Art Gallery and The Royal Standard, on the face of it at...