Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse theatres
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Liverpool's Theatres, Sparking Creativity and Nurturing Talent Registered charity #1081229
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Joined May 2009
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We're pleased to announce we have been successful in our #CulturalRecoveryFund grant application. This will allow us to:. 🗝️Partially re-open our theatres.🎨Work with freelancers on upcoming productions.🎥Invest in digital equipment. 👉 #HereForCulture
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Today, we want to thank the European Union for their support in making the Everyman happen 🇪🇺💛💙
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This evening, we're joining hundreds of organisations across the country in lighting our buildings up as part of the #LightitinRed campaign. Light it in Red aims to highlight the challenges facing our industry, since we closed our doors in March.
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96 on the Everyman shutters today, as we remember those who lost their lives 30 years ago at #Hillsborough. We’ll fall silent with the city at 3.06pm ❤ #NeverForgotten #JFT96 #YNWA96
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It’s a big day for the theatres today as we announce @SubaDasDirects as our new Creative Director. He will help shape our artistic future and we’re looking forward to him bringing a fresh perspective to our theatres and our city region. 1/3
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Big news for the theatres today as we announce @NathanPowell141 as our new Creative Director. With a rich background in theatre making & arts leadership he brings a wealth of experience and a commitment to creative collaboration, diversity & inclusion, & artist development. [1/6]
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Our buildings will be purple tonight in honour of Sam Kent, our Head of Production, who peacefully passed away early this morning. Thanks & cheers to your brilliance always .#RIPSam
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It's with huge sadness that we announce that our brilliant artistic director @gemmabodinetz will be stepping down after 17 amazing years. Read the full story >
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Today we held a small, socially-distanced goodbye toast to our artistic director @gemmabodinetz!. Gemma will leave the theatres on 31 December, bringing to a close 17 years at the artistic helm of @LivEveryPlay. Thank you Gemma 💕
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Thanks for the support & love for your Everyman. 10 years planning,2 years building. We did it together #ItsLiverpool
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It’s the Everyman's 56th birthday today! A bit of a weird one this year, but we’ve all adjusted to odd birthdays recently. One thing we've taken from the past few months is that we have an amazing & supportive audience, and were going to be so happy to see you all again! ❤️💙💜
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Tonight we will light up our buildings, joining hundreds others like us, as part of the #LightitinRed campaign. The campaign is a chance for us to stand together in highlighting the challenges facing our industry, since we closed our doors in March. #StandasONE #WeMakeEvents
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We are absolutely over the moon to let you know that the Everyman will be opening it's doors in November!. We are hosting the fabulous @HomotopiaFest as they bring some groundbreaking queer creativity to our stage, for the first time since March!. Details below 👀.
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An Everyman that is officially OPEN TO AUDIENCES 😍😍😍. We love to see it 💖
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If you're coming to see @GaryBarlow #ADifferentStage tonight or tomorrow, can you please keep the magic for others and not take photos or videos to share. All photography, filming & mobile phone use is prohibited in the auditorium during the show
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A big thank you for your patience today in booking tickets for @GaryBarlow. The demand has been absolutely phenomenal. Tickets won’t be mailed out or available digitally. Printed tickets will be issued from 4.30pm on the day of each performance.
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Let's welcome our New Works Associate Tommo Fowler @TommoFowler 🎉. He is Literary Associate for @WomensPlayPrize, and has worked as a freelance dramaturg for companies including the @royalcourt, Sheffield Theatres and @eclipsetcl.
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The day is finally here! . The day we welcome the wonderful @SubaDasDirects as our new Creative Director. We are overjoyed to have Suba join us. "It really is the opportunity of a lifetime to use the few things I know to help create a better world.”
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We're saddened to hear of the passing of Everyman founder Terry Hands. Without him we wouldn’t be standing here on Hope Street, 56 years after his vision became a reality. Our thoughts are with Terry’s family and friends. From the bottom of our hearts - thank you.
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Russell Brand @rustyrockets will be recording his Comedy Special here at the Playhouse in a couple of weeks. Be part of the audience for comedy, chaos, Q&A's and meditation. 🗓 6 & 7 Sep at 6pm. 🎟 from £26. 💻
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🚨Calling all script writers 🚨. Have a script you'd like us to see?. Our unsolicited script submission window is now OPEN until Friday 24th April. The window opens twice a year, and all scripts received that fit our criteria are guaranteed feedback ✨. 👉
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Congrats to our Julie Walters on becoming a Dame! 👑❤️
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We are Bimini Bon buzzing to announce @biminibabes is coming to the Playhouse in October!. Hear how drag took Bimini from the brink of self-destruction to the mainstage in this one-person hour long special ✨.
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The Playhouse looking 👌 in red white and blue to celebrate the life of Doddy.
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Wow! Lots of @GaryBarlow Love! Please be patient we're working on phones & website as quickly as we can.
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We're hugely sad to announce that after 10 years, the awesome Matt Rutter will be leaving his role as the inspirational director of @YoungEveryPlay in the New Year. Read more:.
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We've been nominated for 'Building of the Decade' by @BBCNWT!. •.Voting opens at 6.30pm this evening. watch North West Tonight to find out more and vote for us to go through to the final. • .💻
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Here’s a message from our new Creative Director @NathanPowell141. To any artists engaged with us, if there's any way you think we can support you during this time, please do get in touch. Details of the support available from our partners @awf_liverpool can be found below.
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Happy birthday to Everyman Company alumnus Julie Walters! 🎊Here's the picture of Julie in the '74 Company which hangs in the Everyman offices
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We're excited to announce that two Liverpool-based theatre makers will join our team as Artistic Advisors. Please welcome Stephen Fletcher (@SteFletcher1) and Nathan Powell (@NathanPowell141) who join our artistic team from this week!. 👉 📸 Philip Vile
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All done! It's been a boss night with @KimCattrall. Thank you to Kim, Phil & everyone who has supported YEP this evening #InConvoWithKim
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The news is out! @GaryBarlow is coming to the Playhouse next month with A Different Stage, his theatrical one-man stage show telling his story, in his words. Tickets on sale from 10am on Wednesday 16 February >>>.
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Congratulations to our wonderful @gemmabodinetz for winning Best Director at the @uk_theatre Awards! #UKTAwards
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We’re deeply saddened to hear the news about Bill Kenwright. A long association with Liverpool Playhouse, he first performed as a child in The Toad of Toad Hall where his passion for theatre began. [1/3]
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🌎. This is Liverpool. Welcome back to our show-stopping city.
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We might have had some work done to makes us look *a bit* younger in recent years…. But on this day 55 years ago, the Everyman theatre was born!
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Thank you @ace_national for your continued faith & investment in our theatres. Being part of the National Portfolio ensures we can continue to deliver against our ambitious vision, with a focus on artistic innovation, talent development & social change. [1/2].📸 @brennerphotos
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Thank you @GaryBarlow for a brilliant week at the Playhouse! We've loved having you and all your fans enjoying #ADifferentStage with us
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Today, we remember the 96 people who 31 years ago today, went to a football match and never came home. Our staff and our city will fall silent at 3.06pm to remember them, their families and everyone affected.
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⭐ LIVERPOOL: THE HUMBUG STOPS HERE ⭐. It's a huge relief to know we can continue with our plans to stage this year's Christmas shows. LET'S GO!. 🎩 A Christmas Carol @ the Playhouse.☃️ Everyman & Friends Cabaret.🎄 The Everyman Christmas Cabaret.
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Congratulations to our New Works Lead @FrankPeschier, who's been commended as part of the Kenneth Tynan Award for her artistic leadership & passion in platforming & celebrating voices that are often left unheard. Very well deserved, we're immensely proud!.
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Tonight we light up the Everyman to remember victim of police brutality, George Floyd. Please follow us here for more to come.
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💜. It's a day of relief for us, but there are so many theatre makers across the country who will have been devastated by today's announcement, with projects that take months of planning no longer able to happen. We stand with our theatre family and send them our love & support.
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NEW ANNOUCEMENT!.Russell Brand @rustyrockets will be performing at the Playhouse for 2 nights in September. Book Here #comedynights #attheplayhouse #russellbrand
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It's been quite a week! So we wanted to end it with a thank you from @gemmabodinetz. We are so grateful to EVERYONE who has donated the cost of their tickets to us. It means the world. Safe weekends everyone x
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With #GeorgeOnTour coming to the Playhouse in two weeks, we are giving away a George’s Marvellous Medicine Experiments book so you can get stuck in and create your own marvellous creations at home 👨🔬💥⚠. Simply retweet by 5pm on Monday to win!
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We had already booked ad space, so we wanted to send a message of solidarity to our audiences, our visitors and our customers. Look after yourselves and others, we'll be back soon and we look forward to seeing you ❤️❤️❤️
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The Everyman was built to minimise its environmental impact and maximise its sustainability. As well as collecting rain water on the roof which flushes the loos, we also have our very own bee hives who started producing honey last year . #12DaysofFALALALAFacts
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Happy pride Liverpool, hope your weekend is full of love! e&P xo 🏳️🌈🎉🏳️🌈🎉🏳️🌈
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We are really excited to announce that the application period to become our new Creative Director is now OPEN!. We’re looking for someone to shape our artistic future and bring a new perspective into our two theatres. DEADLINE: 9am, Mon 8 Feb.
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We are positively buzzing to announce that Christmas will be coming to the Playhouse this December, in the form of A Christmas Carol!. Directed by @gemmabodinetz, A Christmas Carol will be her gift to the city this Christmas season 🎄. Watch our sneak peak trailer below 👀
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We’re thrilled to announce award-winning architects of the Everyman @haworthtompkins will lead a new study for the Playhouse to safeguard the future of the 156 year old theatre [1/4]
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We've just been up to the roof to see our bees. These little ladies are loving the spring sunshine, lots of colourful pollen going back into the hive 🌞🐝🌼💛
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We want you to vote tomorrow! So snap a selfie at your polling station and get a £10 ticket! Info how to redeem tomorrow! #GeneralElection17
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Huge thanks to every single member of staff at the Everyman and to this gorgeous bunch of people who made #EvCompany such a joy. See you in 2019 🎉🎉🎉
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Happy Birthday @IanMcKellen! We loved having you with us last week at the Playhouse - thank you for your generosity and support raising money for @YoungEveryPlay!
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Did you know WE WANT YOUR SCRIPTS? If you live or are from the North West and would like us to read what you’ve written, you can email it to us newworks@everymanplayhouse.com
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Can you believe it? Today our Young Everyman Playhouse programme turns 10 years old!. That's 10 years of @YoungEveryPlay training young people up for careers in the theatre and beyond. #YEPis10.Read more:.
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We're made up to have been awarded a £390,000 grant from the @WestonFdn!. It's a huge boost allowing us to invest in our productions and develop an improved digital theatre offer for the future. Read more 👉 #WestonCultureFund
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A massive thank you to all of our audiences who visited us at the Everyman for #SweeneyTodd. You've made the last five weeks fantastic and we thank you all for your continuing support to our theatres ❤️😈💈. 🎶 Swwwwwing your raaazooor widdddeeee.
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Yesterday would have been Pete Postlethwaite's 75th birthday, he was gone too soon but we will always remember him for his incredible King Lear on our very own Everyman stage in 2008. Gone but never forgotten 🌺
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📚THE GREAT BIG BANK HOLIDAY BOOK & TICKET GIVEAWAY 🎟. Still Alice comes to the Playhouse 6-10 Nov 📆 we’ll give you TWO tickets to the show & @waterstonesl1 will give you the book - just like and retweet to win!. ➡️ Winner announced 28 Aug - good luck 👍 #giveaway
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🚨 The full cast of Top Girls is here 🚨..Our fabulous cast are: Tala Gouveia, Alicya Eyo, Nadia Anim, Saffron Dey, Sky Frances, Ailsa Joy, Lauren Lane and Natalie Thomas.
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📚THE GREAT BIG BANK HOLIDAY BOOK & TICKET GIVEAWAY 🎟. Jane Austen’s Persuasion comes to the Playhouse, 9-13 Oct 📆 Thanks to @waterstonesl1 you can get the book & we’ll give you TWO tickets to the show, just like and retweet to win!. ➡️ Winner announced 28 Aug - good luck 👍
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Applications are open for our Everyman & Playhouse Playwrights' Programme - a free course which has been designed to help writers explore the fundamentals of play writing ✍️. All we need is a 1 page application form, & a writing extract. More info here 👉…
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This evening, we're once again lighting up our buildings red in support of the live events industry and everyone involved. Find out more about #LightItInRed and how you can get involved at:
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📖 . Take a few moments to read our latest update. Thank you to everyone for your support. Please look after yourselves and one another x. 👉
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Happy birthday, Everyman! ..59 years ago today, our co-founders Terry Hands, Peter James, Michael Freeman and Martin Jenkins raised the curtain for Henry IV Part I at the Everyman. Thanks to all of you who have been with us along the way.
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🏆 We've been nominated for the UK's Most Welcoming Theatre & need YOU to vote. Liverpool is the most welcoming city, right?! Well, let's get this award to prove it 👍 . Just head to the link below and tick 'Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse Theatre'. ➡️
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With tonight's news, we'll need to review guidance over the next few days to see what it means for our plans for Daniel Kitson, Homotopia & A Christmas Carol. We'll update on Monday. For now, take care.
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Thank you for sharing your view re our statement. We’ve found these resources really useful While we need all the financial support we can in these unprecedented times, we will happily refund you #blacklivesmatter
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We're excited to announce ambitions to transform the Playhouse, with sustainability & cultural regeneration at the heart. In partnership with @lpoolcouncil @LpoolCityRegion @LpoolBIDcompany we've been exploring the theatre's long-term future & its role locally & nationally. [1/3]
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Usually the poster cases outside of our buildings are filled with info about our upcoming shows but since things are a little different this year we've decided to make good use of the space, commissioning beautiful artwork from local artist @Sumuyyaa 😍. 👉
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By Jove! We'd like to wish Sir Ken Dodd the happiest of 90th birthdays today. love from the Everyman & Playhouse x
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We're really excited to announce a new member of the My White Best Friend - North cast. @MPeakeOfficial will be joining us for one night of #MWBFNorth!. Which night is Maxine performing on? Well, that would be telling. 👀.
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The week that so many of you have been waiting for has finally arrived. @GaryBarlow is at the Playhouse & there's a handful of seats back on sale for each show. #gogogo
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THANK YOU to all the wonderful, generous playwrights and publishers who have sent us plays from female writers to balance out our Writers’ Room Library - we’re caving under the weight of burgeoning equality!
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📢CAST ANNOUNCEMENT!. Meet the cast for our new family musical Alice in Wonderland, which will have its world premiere at the Playhouse on 4 July, Alice in Wonderland Day✨✨[1/5]
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We couldn't be happier to have a full cast for Our Town Needs a Nandos (& three of them are graduates from our YEP actors programme! 😍). Don't miss this brilliant new play from Samantha O'Rourke, at the Everyman Thu 23 Jun to Sat 2 Jul
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We're over the moon to announce the amazing @josielawrence1 (Eastenders, Whose Line Is It Anyway?, Mother Courage and her Children) will play Sylvie in @JOJEHARVEY's Our Lady Of Blundellsands - a brand new production coming to the Everyman in March 💃.
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Good luck to #TeamCherry today at the UK Theatre Awards @uk_theatre .Have a great time @jonnywlarkin @Mr_James_Baker @FrankPeschier @RopeVictoria .Wishing all the nominees a top day 🥂🍒.#UKTAwards #LoveTheatre
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We're thrilled to announce that the Everyman will have its own resident company of actors from 2017
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"I couldn't bear for you to be on your own.". "I'll be at your side. Every step of the way. Never parted.". To everyone involved in making Our Lady of Blundellsands a reality. Thank you.
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We're made up to be continuing as an @ace_national #NPO & congrats to all the fab arts organisations in our city who got #ACEfunding ✊
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☀️One Summer to remember…. We’re partnering up with @networktweets to bring you a LIVE Q&A on our Facebook and Twitter pages with .@davemorrissey64 and Spencer Leigh, to celebrate the launch of One Summer on Blu Ray!. 👉
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Looking forward to #AHouseThroughTime starting @BBCTwo tonight. Great fun filming at the Ev with Jeff Young for later episodes. Read a bit more about the series here:
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