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December 6, 2012 / 0 Comments
REVIEW: Jack and the Beanstalk, Liverpool Playhouse
Panto. Same thing every year, right? Yet somehow, the Playhouse has managed to take the festive art form to another level yet again. If you’re going to see a big Christmas show in Liverpool this year, it has to be this one. The traditional Everyma…
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November 22, 2012 / 0 Comments
Liverpool Playhouse 2013 season launch
We love a Playhouse season launch, and this week saw the theatre announce three exciting new in-house productions for next year as well as the return of a few familiar faces. They had previously spilled the beans about Roger McGough???s new adaptati…
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October 22, 2012 / 0 Comments
Everyword Begins
For anyone aspiring to be a writer, wanting to see a new play in development or wanting to work with the UK???s leading practitioners, Everyword 2012 new writing festival, which starts today, is a week of new stories, inspiring workshops and creativ…
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September 25, 2012 / 0 Comments
W Somerset Maugham’s The Sacred Flame at the Playhouse
Putting a twist on the classic murder mystery, The Sacred Flame is a part thriller, part love story that runs at the Playhouse from October 16 to 20. Written by playwright and novelist W Somerset Maugham, the brilliance of the writer is promised t…
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September 19, 2012 / 0 Comments
REVIEW: The Alchemist, Liverpool Playhouse
Kicking off the Playhouse’s autumn season — and frankly we’ve been a bit lost without the place — is this new production of Ben Jonson’s The Alchemist. Written in 1610, the play is as timeless in its message as it lends itself to personalisation…
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June 17, 2012 / 0 Comments
REVIEW: Living Together, Liverpool Playhouse
The run of The Norman Conquests continues apace at the Playhouse, where one of Alan Aykbourn???s series is played out each day, and where all three can be seen back-to-back on ???trilogy days???. Set over a weekend of an impromptu family reunion after o…
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May 15, 2012 / 0 Comments
New Playhouse season: Ben Jonson, Gogol, McGough, Steptoe & Son and more
This autumn, the Playhouse has recruited rising star director Robert Icke to open the season in high comedic style with Ben Jonson???s classic farce The Alchemist. The season that follows includes a rich array of visiting productions and culminates …
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April 12, 2012 / 0 Comments
Henry V opening night at the Playhouse
Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse marked the opening night of Henry V tonight, directed by Shakespeare???s Globe Artistic Director Dominic Dromgoole and with History Boys star Jamie Parker in the titular role. Henry V is now on at the Playhouse until…
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March 22, 2012 / 0 Comments
Time for De:Light in Vauxhall
As Young Everyman and Playhouse go from strength to strength at the minute, there is a chance to see what they’ve been doing behind the scenes next week. The theatres’ Young Technicians are getting ready to showcase a larger than life piece of pub…
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February 22, 2012 / 0 Comments
Review: A Streetcar Named Desire, Liverpool Playhouse
Streetcar! Playhouse! Bodinetz! It all seems like such an obvious, natural fit it’s strange to imagine it hasn’t been done before. It’s some 30 years since this Tennessee Williams classic has been performed on the Playhouse stage, and with the the…
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February 14, 2012 / 0 Comments
Ayckbourn’s The Norman Conquests at Liverpool Playhouse this summer
Alan Ayckbourn???s trilogy of comedies The Norman Conquests will open at the Liverpool Playhouse in May. Audiences can enjoy Table Manners, Living Together and Round and Round the Garden individually, although, and of course they’ll say this; “the e…
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January 15, 2012 / 0 Comments
A Streetcar Named Desire returns to Liverpool
The Playhouse has revealed details of its first in-house production of 2012, A Streetcar Named Desire, which opens on February 17. Tennessee Williams???s tender yet powerful Pulitzer Prize-winning 1947 play has long been considered a landmark of 20t…
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December 21, 2011 / 0 Comments
Spam burgers and dame games
It’s that end-of-term feeling at the city’s theatres it would seem, and they’re not afraid to pull a few attention-seeking stunts to help the time until the bell rings go faster. Here’s two that deserve a round of applause: The Playhouse is amusin…
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December 15, 2011 / 0 Comments
Trailer Park #2: Christmas
Hooray! It’s Trailer Park, the bit of the site where MADEUP showcases video clips and trailers of upcoming live shows. You’d better be feeling Christmassy. If not, get a load of this: We have a taster here today of Irving Berlin???s White Christmas,…
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December 9, 2011 / 1 Comment
Review: Cinderella, Liverpool Playhouse
Aaaah, plus ca change, plus c’est meme chose. And tonight found me falling in love with the Everyman’s — sorry, the Playhouse’s — rock ‘n’ roll panto all over again. This perennial festive favourite has upped sticks to its sister theatre this ye…
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December 7, 2011 / 0 Comments
“Art is for everybody”: Taking theatre to the community
The summer riots are in the headlines again as people still try and piece together what happened across the country back in August. In the aftermath, I met Sarah Lovell, who heads the education and community outreach team at the Everyman & Playhou…
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October 19, 2011 / 0 Comments
Everyword festival moves to new venue
The Everyman may be coming down brick by brick but its spirit lives on, as its new writing festival Everyword goes ahead this year at sister theatre the Playhouse. For anyone aspiring to be a writer, wanting to see a new play in development or wan…
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October 5, 2011 / 0 Comments
Review: The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Playhouse
The latest in-house production in the Playhouse???s busy season is a theatre studies staple with original twists galore. Liverpool playwright Stephen Sharkey has taken Bertolt Brecht???s allegorical and darkly comic tale of Hitler???s rise to power and …
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September 28, 2011 / 0 Comments
Excitement mounts for re-opening of the Playhouse Studio
As part of its 100th birthday celebrations, the Liverpool Playhouse will re-launch the Studio with the world premi??re of a new play from Lizzie Nunnery, The Swallowing Dark, in a co-production with London???s Theatre503. Directed by Theatre503???s co-…
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September 1, 2011 / 0 Comments
Blackberry Trout Face returns
Following an acclaimed debut in 2009, Liverpool theatre company 20 Stories High will tour Laurence Wilson???s award-winning play Blackberry Trout Face to national venues, schools and communities throughout September and November. Directed by the com…
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