Liverpool Playhouse

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  March 5, 2014 / 0 Comments

  REVIEW: Dial M for Murder, Liverpool Playhouse

  Fiery Angel is the company behind the Playhouse’s own 2011 smash hit The Ladykillers, as well as an equally ridiculously successful stage version of The 39 Steps. So turning their attention to one of Alfred Hitchcock’s best known whodunnits (of sorts) continues to play to their strengths. The story of a jealous husband who attempts […]

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  February 17, 2014 / 0 Comments

  Dial M for Murder

  An acclaimed touring production of classic thriller Dial M for Murder kicks off March at the Playhouse. The play, made famous by the Alfred Hitchcock film, tells the story of the cold and calculating Tony Wendice who is convinced his wife is having an affair. He sets out to plan and execute the perfect murder, […]

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  January 7, 2014 / 0 Comments

  ‘Relaxed’ panto performance

  The festive season isn’t over yet at the Playhouse, where the famous rock ‘n’ roll panto is still going strong. And as part of its ongoing scheme to make theatre more accessible for everyone, the venue is holding its third relaxed performance with a tailor-made presentation of Aladdin (It’s Raining Zen) on Tuesday, January 14 […]

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  December 5, 2013 / 0 Comments

  Aladdin: It’s Raining Zen

  Here’s a glimpse of some of the lunacy you’ll find at the Playhouse’s rock ‘n’ roll panto this year. You’ll find my full review over on Seven Streets; but in short, 24 hours later and MADEUP is still laughing out loud at the memory, and the world can always do with a bit of that. […]

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  November 20, 2013 / 0 Comments

  Betty Blue Eyes among Playhouse new shows

  Amidst all the excitement of yesterday’s big reveal about the re-opening of the Everyman, the season announcement got a bit lost in the ether – MADEUP (and most everybody else) got about as far as saying a little about Twelfth Night before getting a bit distracted. However, as usual, the new year at the Playhouse […]

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  November 11, 2013 / 0 Comments

  Northern Broadsides back at the Playhouse

  Following the critical success of last year’s A Government Inspector, Northern Broadsides’ associate director Conrad Nelson and playwright Deborah McAndrew once again team up for The Grand Gesture, which you can catch at the Playhouse this week. Based on Nikolai Erdman’s rarely-performed comic classic The Suicide, the play is described as “a pitch-black, break-neck farce […]

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  October 16, 2013 / 0 Comments

  1984 at the Playhouse

  April, 1984. 13:00. Comrade 6079, Winston Smith, thinks a thought, starts a diary, and falls in love. But Big Brother is watching him – and the door to Room 101 can swing open in the blink of an eye….   Headlong theatre – the same company that has just signed up Matt ‘Dr Who’ Smith […]

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  October 6, 2013 / 0 Comments

  Crime and Punishment at the Playhouse

  A new adaptation of Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment is on at the Playhouse until October 19, and is a real treat for lovers of intelligent, finely-crafted theatre. I reviewed it for the recently refurbed and ever-wonderful Seven Streets – check it out (and their new look) here.

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  September 25, 2013 / 0 Comments

  REVIEW: Melody Loses Her Mojo, Liverpool Playhouse

  A reviewer couldn’t craft a better statement than that already coined by 20 Stories High about their new show, Melody Loses Her Mojo – it is like “an illegal rave in a stately home” on stage at the Playhouse, they have said. In a way, that’s true. But the best thing to glean from this […]

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  August 27, 2013 / 0 Comments

  Gory Crime and Punishment trailer

  The Playhouse loves a good trailer but this could be their best to date – a suitably eerie and blood-spattered teaser for their upcoming production of Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment. Take a look:

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  August 15, 2013 / 0 Comments

  Everyman alumnus returns for Crime and Punishment

  Actor George Costigan, a former member of the Everyman company who made his name in cult film Rita, Sue and Bob Too, returns to Liverpool this autumn in Playhouse’s new production of Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment.   He will play detective Porfiry, whose suspicions about a double murder lead him to story’s main protagonist, student […]

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  July 27, 2013 / 0 Comments

  Scrappers world premiere at the Playhouse Studio

  This autumn the Everyman and Playhouse continues its commitment to nurturing new talent by presenting another debut play in the Playhouse Studio.  Scrappers, described as a funny and tender comedy, tells the story of a small group of scrap merchants.   Written by Daniel Matthew and directed by Matthew Xia, the cast features David Judge, […]

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  June 19, 2013 / 0 Comments

  REVIEW: The Kite Runner, Liverpool Playhouse

  The exoticism of The Kite Runner has enchanted readers, cinemagoers, and now theatre audiences, as Khaled Hosseini’s bestseller takes to the stage in an ambitious show spanning decades of recent Afghanistan history.   This co-production between the Liverpool Playhouse and the Nottingham Playhouse has already had its run at the latter venue, so audiences here […]

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  May 21, 2013 / 1 Comment

  Liverpool Playhouse reveals autumn season

  Following a season of work that has transferred to London and toured the UK, including The Misanthrope, A Day in The Death of Joe Egg and The Match Box, the Playhouse leads on world premières and creative collaboration this autumn.   Melody Loses Her Mojo, a vibrant new work by Keith Saha produced in collaboration […]

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  May 20, 2013 / 0 Comments

  Slung Low’s Knowledge Emporium

  Slung Low, the Leeds-based theatre company behind the Everyman’s 2010 Anthology performances and the theatre’s closing ceremony, returned to Liverpool last week as part of their nationwide search to uncover everything we know. You might have seen the Knowledge Emporium, an old fashioned sweet shop converted from a 60s’ caravan, plonked outside the Playhouse, where […]

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  May 2, 2013 / 0 Comments

  Suranne Jones stars in Beautiful Thing 20th anniversary tour

  Liverpool-born writer Jonathan Harvey returns to his home town again this month, as Suranne Jones leads the cast of his acclaimed play Beautiful Thing, an urban love story set over a long hot summer on a Thamesmead housing estate. Celebrating its 20th anniversary, this limited national tour comes to the Liverpool Playhouse direct from the […]

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  April 17, 2013 / 0 Comments

  Dennis Potter’s Blue Remembered Hills

  Dennis Potter’s classic drama Blue Remembered Hills comes to Liverpool, as Northern Stage bring this ground-breaking story of children and childhood to the Playhouse from May 14 to 18. The story follows seven children one wartime summer, who play, fool and make merry in the Forest of Dean. But their childish games, complex friendships and […]

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  April 11, 2013 / 1 Comment

  REVIEW: A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, Liverpool Playhouse

  “The Liverpool Playhouse is a model of what a regional theatre should be,” Tweeted director Stephen Unwin this morning. This has never been more true than with its latest production, his own A Day in the Death of Joe Egg.   The 1960s classic play by Peter Nichols remains a product of its time, yet […]

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  April 8, 2013 / 0 Comments

  Interview: Joe Egg actor Ralf Little

  Actor Ralf Little made his name as a teenage member of the Royle Family, before becoming one of the lead characters in Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps. At the same time a successful stage career bloomed, and now he is about to take to the stage of the Liverpool Playhouse in […]

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  March 13, 2013 / 0 Comments

  REVIEW: Particle Velocity, Liverpool Playhouse

  Particle Velocity was a new show of four breathtaking choreographies from Leeds-based Phoenix Dance Theatre, and one of the big name highlights of the LEAP contemporary dance festival, on now. A mixed bag of music and movement, while not everything may be to your palate, an evening with Phoenix is a fantastic introduction to the […]

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