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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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"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...
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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...
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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...
