On 25th November 2006 the Everyman Youth Theatre came back home to the theatres to become the Everyman and Playhouse Youth Theatre. The original Everyman Youth Theatre was founded in the mid-seventies and became one of the most successful youth theatres in the country. It was the starting point in the careers of many successful actors, musicians, writers and theatre practitioners including Ian Hart, David Morrissey and Cathy Tyson.

When the Everyman Theatre closed in 1993 so too did the Youth Theatre.  But by the mid-90s a small group of devoted supporters set up and ran the New Everyman Youth Theatre (NEYT) until November 2006.   

Everyman and Playhouse Youth Theatre has over thirty young people ages 13-20 yrs from all over Merseyside, who take part in weekly skills sessions covering everything from storytelling to stage combat and gives members the opportunity to act, direct, dance, design, sing, improvise, and work on scripts from Shakespeare to new plays. Last year the group were closely involved in the development of Frank Cottrell-Boyce’s first stage play Proper Clever, a new play for young people, which was produced at the Playhouse in October 08.   

Each Autumn the whole Youth Theatre present full scale productions for the Everyman stage. These have included their phenomenal sell-out debut Julius Caesar, in October 2007, and a visually stunning Monkey!, as part of the theatres' Capital of Culture Year programme in 2008.  In May 2009, senior members of the Youth Theatre presented their first studio production, The Love of the Nightingale, at the Everyman.

“Powerful theatre” 7/10 Liverpool ECHO on Julius Caesar   

 “It’s clear the actors are having a blast” 8/10 Liverpool ECHO on Monkey!  

 For more information about youth theatre please contact Viv O’Callaghan 0151 706 9146.