• After 18 months of waiting, Our Lady of Bludellsands is back! The show closed in March 2020 and is now returning with cast members old and new. We spoke to the cast to see how the show is coming along. Watch the new trailer on our website.

• This month we're hosting the first ever BlackFest Writers Room at the Playhouse Studio. We sat down with one of the writers, Kel Nkondock, to talk about her piece: If You Need a Hero, and her experience with BlackFest. You can read the interview on our website. We have a limited number of FREE TICKETS to give away to this event for local artists and organisations. Email newworks@everymanplayhouse.com to secure your seat.

• BlackFest Festival 2021: Victoria Evaristo Drama Workshop is happening on Thursday 23 September. An actor and arts facilitator, Victoria Evaristo is also the director of In search of a white Identity. She will be conducting an acting workshop exploring some of the ideas that are examined with the film. Book your space.

• Writing on the Wall are hiring! WoW are looking for a Festival Coordinator and Writing Development Manager Closing date for applications is Sunday 3 October.

• Uproot Productions are running Black Girl Blues, a 10 week online arts-centred wellbeing programme for Black girls in Year 9 across the UK. Sessions will include self-care practices, creative writing, a film club and much more. Applications close Tuesday 28 September.

• Whether you are a new poet performing for the first time, or a seasoned poet who wants to try out some new stuff, you can perform at our October edition of A Lovely Word, Liverpool’s relaxed and eclectic poetry night. Sign up via this link.

• The Imison Award of £3,000 is presented for an audio drama script by a writer new to the medium. Submissions accepted from any party (producer, broadcasting organisation, writer, agent etc). Deadline 3 October 2021.

• The Tinniswood Award invites submissions of audio drama scripts broadcast or made available online between 1 October 2020 and 31 October 2021. Submissions are accepted from producers, broadcasting organisations, writers or agents. The work must be an original piece for audio as broadcast and may include the first episode from an original series or serial. Deadline Sunday 3 October 2021.

• The 2021 Waltham Forest Poetry Competition invites entries of poems of up to 40 lines on any theme. Entry fee £3 or two poems £4. 1st prize £400, 2nd £200, 3rd £100. Deadline Monday 11 October 2021.

• To see latest round-up of creative opportunities in the North West and beyond, you can sign up for free Chainlinks bulletins by emailing: artswest@cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk. 

• Are you: Over 25 and based in Merseyside? Interested in a career in community theatre? Not able to get on a formal drama or arts course? Join the Radical Makers Participatory Theatre Training programme. Radical Makers is Collective Encounters’ year-long free part time emerging artist training course starting at the end of September. Read more.

• BlackFest Writers’ Room Rehearsed Reading is taking place on Friday 22 September at the Playhouse Studio. Join the members of BlackFest’s first ever Writers’ Room, led by renowned local Liverpool writer, dramaturg Maurice Bessman, as they share extracts of their original work. Tickets are just £5!

• How to Use a Den is a family friendly audio play by All Things Considered Theatre, commissioned by E&P New Works. The show is about adventure and den-building, this is perfect for 5 - 7 year olds. More info HERE. 

• Our Lady of Blundellsands is back! A hilariously twisted comic drama written for the Everyman by Jonathan Harvey and directed by Nick Bagnall, it’s about families and fantasies, honesty and lies – and about how heart-breaking great comedy can be. The show will run until Saturday 9 October.

• After a long year of shielding, the disabled artists of RAWD crash land at Unity Theatre Wednesday 29 September with their comeback performance; Phone Home.

• Our next edition of A Lovely Word on Thursday 7th October will feature Tyrone Lewis, UK Poetry Slam Champion 2020, former Roundhouse Poetry Slam Champion and semi-finalist in the 2020 World Cup Of Poetry. Join Tyrone as a fellow performer or guest in this friendly and fun evening of performance poetry. 

• Cat on a Hot Tin Roof opens this week at the Playhouse, and will be here for two weeks. Directed by Anthony Almeida, this bold new revival of Tennessee Williams’ lyrical Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece is a blazing portrayal of what it takes to survive in a society where we’re all desperate to feel free.

• Reel Tours: Mega Movie Quiz is back on the third Thursday of every month downstairs in the Everyman from September to June. test your cinematic knowledge in the most exciting film quiz in Liverpool... in a theatre. Tickets are just £3 per person!

• Join Collective Encounters on Thursday 30 September 2021 for an evening of quick-fire presentations by people passionate about using the arts for social change. You can connect, network, discuss ideas and be inspired at their Arts for Social Change Showcase - their free tickets are available now.