The re-opening of our beloved Everyman is one step closer today, with the theatre revealing the portraits of people from across the city that will form the building’s new façade. Last year, the Everyman and Playhouse invited people to take part in a photography project to create a portrait wall on the front of the […]
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Two Liverpool theatres are offering chances for supporters of the venues get get involved immortalising themselves as part of their massive regeneration campaigns. The Royal Court Liverpool Trust has just launched its Adopt-a-Seat campaign, to ren…
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The official groundbreaking at the new Everyman took place today, as the theatre launched its appeal for the final funds to complete the project. This means building work on the site is now underway. The building project — due for completion in w…
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How time flies. Construction of the new Everyman on Hope Street will commence on Monday (November 28), with contractors Gilbert-Ash taking over the site from Sloyan Doyle, who have handled the deconstruction of the building since its summer closur…
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David Morrissey’s Macbeth was one of the theatre events of the year and the last production at the Everyman theatre before its closure (and how time flies — there is now a hole in the street where the venue once stood). From today, a film of the …
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This might just be the most poignant moment of the whole Everyman closure thus far — the theatre is to auction off its seats and interior pillars. From today (July 28) members of the public can bid to get their very own bit of the Everyman in a s…
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Here are some beautiful pictures taken from the Everyman finale. How to describe it for those who couldn’t be there? Hm. It all began with a brass band and a big yellow digger making their way up Hope Street towards the theatre in a New Orleans fu…
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This afternoon the Everyman was open to the public for the final time. The backstage area was opened up to nose around, the lobby was being painted by a cartoonist, ‘undertakers’ were wandering the building, and in the auditorium, a simple but eff…
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Well, the day has finally come, and MADEUP will be reporting on the closure of the Everyman and the big finale over the course of the weekend. The theatre has been asking the public for their memories and it will be exciting and poignant to hear t…
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News today of the July 2 celebrations marking the Everyman’s closure. Sounds like there won’t be a dry eye on Hope Street as the theatre ends its last day with a finale courtesy of Slung Low, the brilliantly imaginative theatre company that took a…
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It’s one month today until the Everyman closes. And as part of creating a fitting finale, the theatre would like to hear your memories of the place to turn into a sound installation for visitors to experience on its final day – July 2. If you reme…
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There was never much doubt this production would see the Everyman out in style, and it soon became clear watching this Macbeth that it would be an across-the-board critical success that would barely need reviewing, yet here we are. I???ve read fair …
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Endz is a new production from the Everyman and Playhouse that has been touring community spaces across the city, including the Liverpool Lighthouse in Anfield, where yesterday it had an afternoon and evening performance. A piece of verbatim theatr…
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Well, we knew it had to happen, and now it is official – the Everyman as we know and love it will officially close on Saturday, July 2. So much big news – where to start? The final production, Macbeth with David Morrissey and Jemma Redgrave, has b…
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Today???s arts cuts – ?100m – would barely cover the cost of two Apache helicopters, if the lamentations of the liberal Twitterati are more than Chinese whispers. We???ve been spending that kind of money bombing Libya every night, apparently, if t…
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Today saw actor David Morrissey in town, alongside Jemma Redgrave, to start up the publicity machine for Macbeth, that will be the final production to be staged at the Everyman before its closure. It seemed a bit of a hectic schedule for all invol…
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From the international corporate malevolence of Disney to something a tad more grass roots now. Next weekend sees the nationwide protest of Theatre Uncut, an evening of performances of new short plays that the writers have given the nod to be used…
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Alan Stocks is one of the most well-known actors currently working on the Liverpool stage. Raised in Norris Green, he studied at RADA before forging a successful theatre and television career. Since moving back to his home city with his wife and t…
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Correction on February 10, 2011: Previous mention of Andrew Schofield being in the cast of this show was incorrect and the story has been amended. A cast of actors usually seen on the stage of the Royal Court will be heading over to the Everyman f…
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Actors Matt Rutter and Tim Lynskey began working together in 2002, performing sketches in the Unity theatre bar for free beers. Writer and director Robert Farquhar liked what he saw, and the trio forged ahead with their ideas for satirical comedy …
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