• Our new show Love, Liverpool, directed by Nathan Powell and starring local Scouse talent Aron Julius, Helen Carter, Nathan McMullen, Jennifer Varda, and Chloë Clarke has opened at the Playhouse. After delaying the opening by a week due to Covid isolation periods across the company, we are so proud to bring this love story to our city to audiences. Book tickets here.

• Liverpool Biennial, the UK’s largest festival of contemporary visual art is looking for a Marketing & Communications Manager and Director of Development, Marketing & Communications. Deadline for applications is 9 August.

• 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.

• 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 3 October.

• 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 11 October.

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

• Unity Theatre’s applications are open for their Level Up Producer Course where self-producing companies or artists will have skills training and mentoring support to help them bring projects to life. Applications close 9 August. 

• Yale Drama Series Award is a chance for emerging playwrights to submit a full-length play and win the David Charles Horn Prize of $10,000, the publication of their manuscript by Yale University Press, and a staged reading or virtual performance. Playwright Paula Vogel will judge this year’s competition. Submissions will be accepted from 1 June to 15 August. 

• 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. 

• Collective Encounters are also seeking a passionate, socially-engaged participatory theatre maker and facilitator to co-deliver Confidence through Creativity, an online creative course for women. Deadline 9 August at 5pm.

• London’s Vaults Festival Applications are open until 8pm on Monday 16 August.There’s really useful financial and budgeting information in the guide, so it’s worth a look even if you don’t want to apply! 

• Monologue Making Mondays is Make it Write Productions’ workshops for beginners and those with limited writing experience. Using a technique called writing together, mentor Sharon Colpman will help you to perfect the following; characterisation, entertaining an audience, adding drama and rhythm to your monologue and putting your monologue on stage. The six sessions begin Monday 6 September, 7-9pm.

• Our live show Love, Liverpool debuted last night! Based on the commissioned pieces and works from artists and creatives across the city that made our podcast and audio series, this show will take you through a day in the life of our city. Tickets are available for shows remaining until Saturday 14 August.

• The Streets Where We Live is an upcoming bespoke walking tour curated by historian Laurence Westgraph filled with live performances responding to what is uncovered about the many landmarks, monuments and streets names in Liverpool. A partnership between Laurence, Falling Doors Theatre and the Everyman &Playhouse, this project provides a creative platform for new writing in the city and will showcase some of the city’s brilliant performers intertwined with the vastly insightful tours that Laurence has created. The tour will run from Wednesday 18 August to Sun 29 August.

 • Fringe of Colour is a multi-award-winning initiative dedicated to supporting Black people and People of Colour through its online arts festival, Fringe of Colour Films. Now in its second year, the 2021 festival is running from 1-15 August, with 23 unique films exploring themes of identity, mental health, rituals, protest and the self. 

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

• Tomorrow is the last chance to catch the Royal Court’s warm ‘romantic’ comedy Ellen & Rigby directed by our very own Artistic Advisor Stephen Fletcher. Highly recommended by a lot of our team that have loved being back at the Royal Court!

• Our Summer Drama Weeks are back! Run by our experienced youth theatre directors, children will be introduced to a theme for the week and build on it using lots of imagination, storytelling, improvisation and drama skills. Check out our website for more info.