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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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-...
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...
