For Capital of Culture Year, the Everyman continues its reputation for producing powerful and moving new writing with a world premiere by Esther Wilson, one of the writers of the award-winning Unprotected. TEN TINY TOES is an uncompromising and heartbreaking story of mothers and families and what happens when a distant war comes home. Directed by Polly Teale (Shared Experience) this potent new play is at the Liverpool Everyman through Saturday 5 July 2008.

A rare egg of the extinct Great Auk - probably the finest in existence – is on display for the first time at World Museum Liverpool.

A new permanent gallery is opening at the Merseyside Maritime Museum in Liverpool, exploring the role of HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC).

'Standing Stones', a display of work by Liverpool-born international artist Terry Duffy, runs at the Walker Art Gallery through 8 June 2008. The title 'Standing Stones' is a metaphor for humanity. It expresses Duffy's long-term fascination with humankind's legacy and the decisions made for good or evil by individuals, groups, societies and cultures. Duffy’s work questions the very nature of painting by producing works of ambiguous and sculptural shapes.

For Liverpool's Capital of Culture Year, Everyman and Playhouse Artistic Director Gemma Bodinetz directs Molière's famous 17th century French comedy Tartuffe, in a specially commissioned new adaptation by 'Liverpool's Poet Laureate' Roger McGough.

Liverpool’s very own spontaneous theatre ensemble – Hoof! – make their debut at the Everyman theatre this May following a number of sell-out performances at the Unity theatre. The only ensemble in the UK performing this edge-of-your-seat, spontaneous theatre,the cult company will be performing two nights with 2 brand new, completely improvised plays each night on May 9 and 10.

Everyman regulars Hoipolloi return to Liverpool for the second time this year with a comic and curiously uplifting show celebrating the complexities of death from the wonderful Welsh eccentric Hugh Hughes (Floating). Story of a Rabbit lifts the lid on life’s final mystery from 13 to 17 May at the Everyman.

A major exhibition – on view through 10 August 2008 - captures the excitement of the steam train in art from the earliest days, through the boom years of Victorian railways to the end of the line in the 1960s.

On the last Thursday of every month Tate Liverpool is open late for special events, music, food, drink and the best modern and contemporary art. This month's Late at Tate on Thursday 24 April (18.00 – 21.00) is inspired by the French phrase, Folie à Deux which literally translates as, 'a madness shared by two' and explores similar themes to those featured in Tate Liverpool's current exhibition of work by Franco-American artist, Niki de Saint Phalle.

African issues will be at the heart of the European Capital of Culture from 23 – 25 April when Liverpool will Remember Saro-Wiwa as part of International Earth Week 2008.

On the last Thursday of every month Tate Liverpool opens late for special events, music, food, drink and the best modern and contemporary art. This month’s Late at Tate, Thursday 27 March (18.00 – 21.00), is themed around Tate Liverpool’s current collection display DLA Piper Series: The Twentieth Century - How it looked & how it felt.

Hot on the heels of the sell-out success 3 Sisters On Hope Street, the theatres' second in-house production for Liverpool's Capital of Culture Year sees Everyman alumnus Matthew Kelly return with his son Matthew Rixon, to play 'Hamm' and 'Clov' in a new production of Samuel Beckett's absurdist play, Endgame.