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15th May 2012
This autumn, Robert Icke will create a new production of Ben Jonson’s The Alchemist at the Liverpool Playhouse as the opening production of the season. Following The Swallowing Dark and Frank McGuinness’s The Match Box, the Playhouse Studio will present its third world première since reopening, with Held by Joe Ward Munrow, as well as hosting the annual Everyword Festival for new writing.
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8th May 2012
Our production of The Caretaker, after critically lauded runs in Liverpool and London, is continuing to be heralded by critics on its international tour of Australia & the USA. This week it opened at Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York, here’s what the critics say...
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8th May 2012
The 'Portrait Wall' on the front of the new Everyman will be made up of 105 individual shutters with the images of 'extraordinary' people from across Liverpool.
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25th April 2012
Frank McGuinness’s new play, The Match Box, will have its world première in Liverpool this June. Bafta nominated actor and director Lia Williams will direct Leanne Best in the role of Sal at the Playhouse Studio from Thursday 14 June to Saturday 7 July.
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13th April 2012
Young Everyman Playhouse (YEP) Young Actors began their season back in February with the acclaimed Intimate and are due to close their season with Bryony Lavery’s Illyria, their first scripted production. The play runs from Tuesday 17 April to Saturday 21 April in the Playhouse Studio at 7.45pm.
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30th March 2012
Young technicians from the Everyman and Playhouse showcased a larger than life piece of public art that transformed the Trinity Vaults building in Vauxhall, North Liverpool with a projection that used images and real time streaming to create a unique work of art on the building’s façade.
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26th March 2012
At the Playhouse on Saturday people from across Merseyside came to the Playhouse to have their photograph taken, with the chance that their image will be part of the Portrait Wall of 105 people on the front of the new Everyman when it reopens in 2013.
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15th March 2012
Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse co-production of The Ladykillers has been nominated for five Olivier Awards, including Best New Play, Best Director for Sean Foley and Best Actress for Marcia Warren, leading the field along with the National Theatre’s One Man, Two Guvnors.
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12th March 2012
Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse has announced the cast for The Norman Conquests, the popular trilogy of hilarious plays by Alan Ayckbourn, which will be at the Playhouse from Friday 25 May to Saturday 23 June.
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6th March 2012
We regret to announce that the Henry V re-enactment event planned for Saturday 17 March in Williamson Square has been cancelled.
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23rd February 2012
It is 30 years since the Playhouse produced a Tennessee Williams play. The critics have described Gemma Bodinetz’s new production of A Streetcar Named Desire as “compelling” and “tense”, read more of what they had to say.
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8th February 2012
February brings the start of rehearsals for our production of Harold Pinter’s The Caretaker, featuring Jonathan Pryce as Davies, ahead of its international tour to Australia and America.
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6th February 2012
Kim Cattrall will return to the role of Cleopatra in the Liverpool Playhouse production of Antony & Cleopatra at Chichester Festival Theatre this autumn.
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31st January 2012
The journey towards the hotly anticipated 21st century Everyman on Hope Street reached an important milestone today as the official Groundbreaking marked the start of building work on site. Alongside the groundbreaking, the Everyone for the Everyman public appeal was launched to raise the final tranche of funding and ensure that future generations of talent in the city are nurtured beyond the opening of the new building.
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23rd January 2012
Young Everyman Playhouse (YEP) is an ambitious and diverse programme for young people, funded by Arts Council England’s Grants for the Arts and aimed at 11 to 25-year-olds. YEP will nurture the writers and actors, the technicians, the audiences and the cultural leaders of the future, putting them at the heart of the Everyman and Playhouse organisation.
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10th January 2012
As a very important part of our on-going commitment to making Theatre for Everyone, the Playhouse held an autism friendly performance of our rock 'n' roll panto Cinderella, on Monday 9 January and created a night to remember for families and theatre staff alike.
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24th November 2011
A new production of Tennessee Williams’s classic A Streetcar Named Desire, directed by Artistic Director Gemma Bodinetz, will be the first Playhouse production of 2012. It will be followed by a collaboration with Shakespeare’s Globe on Henry V. Continuing a global theme, two Everyman productions will reach out internationally, with Macbeth available as a digital download and The Caretaker touring to Australia and the USA.