Presented as part of LEAP 2007, Merseyside Dance Initiative's annual festival of dance, Henri Oguike Dance Company makes a welcome return to the Playhouse after last year's sold out performance. With a mixed bill of work incorporating two world premières, Henri Oguike arrive at the Playhouse in the midst of a nationwide tour for two performances on Friday 2 March.

First performed as a rehearsed reading at the Everyword literary festival, The Electric Hills is the next world première at the Everyman of a new Liverpool play by a Liverpool writer. Michael McLean is a graduate of the Everyman and Playhouse Young Writers Programme and Henry Cotton Writers on Attachment Scheme.

The irresistibly inventive Peepolykus company bring their unique, madcap take on Arthur Conan Doyle's masterpiece The Hound of The Baskervilles for their Everyman debut from Tuesday 20 to Saturday 24 February as part of a nationwide tour.

All-new Ford Transit has confirmed the icon's rightful position as roadies' favourite by being chosen by Liverpool garage rock band The Coral.

To open their full and varied programme of theatrical delights for Spring-Summer 2007 the Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse Theatres present the first of five 'Made in Liverpool' productions - Timberlake Wertenbaker's award-winning modern classic, Our Country's Good. Set in Australia in a penal colony in 1789 and based on historical records, this tribute to the transforming power of theatre sees convicts and Officers unite as they present their amateur production of The Recruiting Officer.

A servant-girl sacrifices her own safety and the love of her sweetheart to protect a child abandoned in the heat of civil war. Order restored, she is made to confront the boy's biological mother in a legal contest over who deserves to keep him. The comical judge calls on an ancient tradition - the chalk circle - to resolve the dispute. Who wins?

The Tate08 Series goes from strength to strength in 2007 with an exhibition of work by Ellen Gallagher. Born in 1965, Ellen Gallagher is best known as a leading contemporary painter, although she has also created drawings, prints, sculptures and, in collaboration with Edgar Cleijne, a number of 16mm films.

Tate Liverpool will present a major retrospective exhibition of paintings by Peter Blake, the largest since his Tate Gallery exhibition in 1983. A highly influential and original artist, Blake is often described as the godfather of British Pop art. The Tate Liverpool exhibition will survey his rich and diverse oeuvre, presenting familiar works alongside other rarely-seen ones.

Welsh National Opera and the city of Liverpool celebrate longstanding ties by collaborating on The Sacrifice, a brand new opera by James MacMillan.

Welsh National Opera invites the people of Liverpool to enjoy world class opera at a truly affordable price during the city's 800th birthday year