Nitro, Britain's leading Black Theatre Company, make a welcome return to the Playhouse Theatre this April with The Wedding Dance. This passionate story of aspiration and betrayal is underscored by the seductive rhythms of salsa music in Alex Wilson's specially commissioned composition. The Wedding Dance arrives at the Everyman as part of a nationwide tour from Tuesday 3 to Saturday 7 April.

Following their previous visits with political smash hit Feelgood at the Playhouse Theatre and most recently the magnificent The Overwhelming at the Everyman, OUT OF JOINT return to Liverpool to present ALISTAIR BEATON's new play KING OF HEARTS. In this delicious new satire, love, politics and royalty collide to hilarious effect in a lively look at the relationship between Britain's establishment and it's people.

Iain Glen will join Rupert Evans in the upcoming Donmar Warehouse revival of Kiss of the Spider Woman, in their version of a new translation by Allan Baker of Argentine Manurl Puig's play about inmates in a Latin American jail. Following their sell-out tour last year with Ian McKellen in Mark Ravenhill's The Cut, the Donmar return with Kiss of the Spider Woman at the Liverpool Playhouse from Tuesday 29 May until Saturday 2 June 2007.

Twinned with Shanghai, and home to the oldest Chinese community in the UK, Liverpool has always maintained an active dialogue with China. The Real Thing: Contemporary Art from China (30 March - 10 June), the first major UK exhibition of contemporary art from China, brings to Liverpool art from one of the world's most dynamic countries at a time of unprecedented interest.

Patients in Liverpool are to trial a new therapy for pancreatic cancer - a disease which sees most sufferers die within a year of diagnosis.

Turner's The Blue Rigi has been saved for the nation, thanks to an overwhelming public response to a fundraising appeal launched by The Art Fund and Tate in January, and a major grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund (NHMF) announced today.

We continue our season in high spirits as Whisky Galore! The Making of a Fillum arrives from Nottingham Playhouse. Sir Compton Mackenzie's much-loved novel, based on real wartime events, is given a new twist as director Giles Croft bases his own adaptation on an incident which took place just hours before the start of filming for the classic Ealing comedy. Whisky Galore! The Making of a Fillum runs from 26 to 31 March at the Playhouse.

At a time when mass migration and the plight of refugees are constantly in the headlines, Liverpool favourites, Shared Experience, return to the Playhouse to present a rare revival of Diane Samuels' extraordinary play about loss and survival. Kindertransport, directed by Polly Teale, is at the Playhouse from Tuesday 13 - Saturday 17 March 2007.

Teatro Kismet, in association with Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse, presents its magical production of The Snow Queen. This award-winning Italian theatre company, who last toured the UK with the critically acclaimed Beauty and the Beast in 2002, has a reputation for a highly physical and visual style of theatre appealing both to children and adult audiences.

To coincide with the production of Our Country's Good at the Liverpool Playhouse there will be a pre-show rehearsed reading of a new short play by Big House Arts. The event is part of a creative exchange, a partnership between Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse and Big House Arts, who are based in Walton Prison. The Dover Cliff Dweller is directed by Tracy Aston and performed by actors Paul Duckworth (Unprotected, Urban Legend) and Carl Cockram (Noah's Ark, The House That Jack Built).

Hot on the heels of a hugely successful sell-out run at the Edinburgh Festival last year, writer and performer Daniel Kitson is taking his moving and funny story show C90 on tour throughout 2007. This touching tale of quirky individuals, small kindnesses and the hope of human connection is widely acknowledged as Kitson's best work yet and can be seen at the Liverpool Everyman from Thursday 1 March until Saturday 3 March 2007.