Daniel Kitson, a favourite of Liverpool audiences as well as the Edinburgh Comedy Festival, returns to the Playhouse for the opening show of his new tour. The award-winning comedian describes After the Beginning. Before the End as being “something like a stand up show” and will be at the Williamson Square venue on Wednesday 8 May.

His last stand up show was at the Playhouse in 2009, while he was most recently in the city with a sell-out storytelling show The Interminable Suicide of Gregory Church at the Everyman in 2011 before its redevelopment. Kitson’s latest performance follows the successes of his shows C90, The Impotent Fury of the Privileged and 66a Church Road.