All tagged gemmabodinetz
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...
As the Playhouse's recent production of Alan Aykbourn's Norman Conquest showed, the theatre knows good things happen in threes. And so, following the huge successes of Tartuffe and The Hypochondriac, the venue will complete a trilogy of Roger McGo...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Tartuffe is another one of those Playhouse successes that has been reviewed to death most everywhere. But as the revived run finishes in Liverpool this weekend before heading out on a national tour, it certainly warrants a quick honorary mention h...
The autumn season at the Playhouse is gearing up to begin with the return of one of Capital of Culture year???s smash-hit productions: Tartuffe. Originally commissioned and presented by the Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse in 2008 to huge critical a...
???Original, but inspired by??? became the mantra of Graham Linehan and the cast and crew trying to explain their brand new stage adaptation of The Ladykillers. It was a phrase used a lot. The whole massive project had been kept under wraps until yest...
Father Ted writer Graham Linehan and Malcolm Tucker himself, Peter Capaldi were in town today to launch the (up to now) top secret production of Ealing comedy The Ladykillers, premiering at the Playhouse in November. Full story to follow, but for ...
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 ...
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...
Rehearsals began this week for the Playhouse's Christmas show, and it already sounds like just the ticket to get us into the festive spirit (once Halloween is over and done with). Featuring - it sez 'ere - "a giant toothy reindeer, a distracted fa...
