The Turner Prize 2007 exhibition opens Tate Liverpool. It features work by the four shortlisted artists, Zarina Bhimji, Nathan Coley, Mike Nelson and Mark Wallinger. The winner of the prize will be announced during a live broadcast of the award ceremony on Channel 4 on the evening of Monday 3 December.

As part of major UK tour to mark the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade in the British Empire, Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse, Headlong Theatre Company, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Birmingham Rep and Lyric Hammersmith present a new stage adaptation of Simon Schama'sprovocative bestseller Rough Crossings.

Prepare to see the legend of Casanova as you never have before! Carol Ann Duffy's new version of the tale of the original Italian stallion recasts the Latin lothario as a woman in Told by an Idiot's scandalously passionate new play for the company's first visit to Liverpool. Casanova runs from Tuesday 30 October to Saturday 3 November at the Playhouse.

As Tate Liverpool prepares itself for the 2007 Turner Prize and Liverpool European Capital of Culture 2008, the gallery has received a further boost with news that it has been awarded the prestigious Charter Mark - a national standard for excellence in customer service that is open to all public sector organisations.

Actors Touring Company, hot on the heels of their production of Bad Jazz at Unity Theatre earlier this year, make their debut at the Everyman with the European première of The Brothers Size. This earthily poetic portrayal of brotherly love in the Deep South comes from the pen of much vaunted American playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney and is directed by Liverpool-born Bijan Sheibani.

To celebrate European Capital of Culture 2008, Tate Liverpool will present the first comprehensive exhibition of Gustav Klimt's work ever staged in the UK, running from 30 May to 31 August 2008.

Tate Liverpool will present the first UK exhibition of the Franco-American painter and sculptor Niki de Saint Phalle, best known for her Fontaine Stravinsky works on display outside the Centre Pompidou, running from 1 February to 5 May 2008.

Merseyside Maritime Museum is displaying a selection of portraits from the 100 Heads Thinking As One collection by Liverpool-artist Anthony Brown from 22 September to 28 October 2007.

On Thursday 27 September make a date or bring your date to see Rodin's The Kiss in its new home in the Tate Liverpool foyer (or maybe get swept away by the romance and find yourself a date!). Tate Liverpool's third late night opening is inspired by the major re-hang of the Tate Collection which is being unveiled this month in a display entitled DLA Piper Series: The Twentieth Century: How it looked & how it felt.

Roger McGough and Brian Patten return to the Everyman Theatre to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the revolutionary poetry collection The Mersey Sound. These two legendary poets will be regaling the audience with their Top Twenty most requested poems as they return to their spiritual home on Hope Street.

The Everyman and Unity theatres play host to a miniature European festival of theatre as two of Europe's most innovative and exciting companies arrive in Liverpool from October 16 to 20.

The Playhouse Theatre Autumn-Winter 07 Season begins with the visit of one of Britain’s greatest actors as Mark Rylance co-directs and stars in “I Am Shakespeare”. This ground-breaking new comedy brings the question of who actually wrote the Shakespeare plays into the spotlight as Victorian England collides with modern-day Maidstone in riotous fashion.