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  Ron's Liverpool - Actors
Born 1926 in Liverpool she is probably most famous for the part of Hilda Ogden in the TV soap opera "Coronation Street".
Born in Liverpool in 1919 and was in many films during the period 1948 to 1971 including "Genevieve" and "The Titfield Thundrbolt" both in 1953.
Her acting debut started in 1952 at the Liverpool Playhouse in "A midsummer NIghts Dream" but she is probably most well known for playing "Hyacinth Bucket" in "Keeping Up Appearances".
members.ispwest.com /ronsmith/liverpool/actors.htm   (1062 words)

  
 Empire Theater Liverpool
Liverpool Theatre took off in a big way in the 19th century with audiences thronging to its numerous theatres and music halls.
The Empire Theatre in Liverpool was originally known as The New Prince of Wales Theatre and Opera House.
The Empire Theatre in Liverpool with a seating capacity of 2340 was built as a lyric theatre and is perhaps the largest in all of Merseyside.
www.cityround.com /liverpool/empire-theater.php   (332 words)

  
 Liverpool - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Liverpool Castle was built in the 13th century and was removed in
Liverpool expanded significantly in the nineteenth century and a number of major buildings were constructed (St. George's Hall, Lime Street Station etc.).
Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral), the largest brick building in the world, and the first enclosed integrated dock system in the world.
www.mtholyoke.edu /~eushrair/Liverpool.htm   (1460 words)

  
 Playhouse
Playhouse is a common Elizabethan term for a theatre.
The Campbell Playhouse was a sponsored continuation of the Mercury Theater on the Air, a direct result of the instant publicity from the War of the Worlds panic.
The Playhouse theatre is on Williamson Square, in Liverpool.
www.artistbooking.com /trips/157/playhouse.html   (668 words)

  
 Playhouse The - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Playhouse, The, West End theatre, situated in Northumberland Avenue, close to Charing Cross railway station.
Nottingham Playhouse, repertory theatre situated on Wellington Circus, Nottingham.
Liverpool Playhouse, oldest repertory theatre still operating in Britain.
uk.encarta.msn.com /Playhouse_The.html   (124 words)

  
 Liverpool travel guide - Wikitravel
Liverpool is home to the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and is also renowned for being the birthplace of a wide range of popular musicians including The Beatles, Gerry and the Pacemakers and more recently, Atomic Kitten.
Liverpool John Lennon Airport is located in the suburb of Speke around eight miles to the south of the city centre.
Liverpool is served by Liverpool Lime Street station which is located in the heart of the city centre.
wikitravel.org /en/Liverpool   (4341 words)

  
 Pharaohpress   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
When Liverpool Repertory Theatre celebrated its twenty first birthday a fortnight ago it was thought good business to have messages of congratulation from some of the famous playwrights whose works the theatre has produced.
Priestley is in Liverpool for the rehearsals of his new comedy 'The Roundabout' which the Playhouse is producing on Wednesday and he will stay for what promises to be a distinguished first night.
The Liverpool Repertory Theatre has enriched English acting to a quite extraordinary extent, and I believe it is true that more of the best actors and actresses learned their job in Williamson Square than in any other part of the country.
www.pharaohpress.co.uk /latestnews/extracts.htm   (1427 words)

  
 Liverpool City Council Ethnic Minority WW2 Veterans tell their stories
The story of the role that Liverpool's ethnic minority veterans played in World War Two is being celebrated as part of a cultural project to capture memories before they are lost forever.
The project has been realised by the successful collaboration of Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse, Liverpool Culture Company, Age Exchange (a national charity which raises the profile of older people) and Age Concern.
Liverpool's Lord Mayor, Cllr Alan Dean, will present all those who have taken part in the Liverpool project with a certificate marking their involvement at a celebratory presentation on Wednesday 10th August.
www.liverpool.gov.uk /News/newsdetail_1332.asp   (434 words)

  
 Liverpool Theatres - Unexplained Mysteries Discussion Forums
When contractors were refurbishing the Liverpool Playhouse in 1999, the workmen famously downed tools, being so scared to continue after numerous odd happenings and sightings of what they believed to be ghosts.
The main ghost who is said to haunt the Playhouse is that of a woman named Elizabeth, a cleaner at the venue before it was granted its licence.
The Liverpool Empire has been host to more than its fair share of ghostly stories over the years but the ghost that most employees have sighted is that if a young Victorian girl, aged about ten.
www.unexplained-mysteries.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=12486   (1207 words)

  
 Liverpool Playhouse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Liverpool Playhouse is a theatre in Williamson Square in the city of Liverpool, England.
It was the home to Liverpool Repertory Theatre Company, which was established in 1911, and disbanded in 1999.
The theatre was briefly closed in the late nineties, but has now reopened and has become the venue for numerous acclaimed new productions of old plays, in contrast to its sister theatre, the Everyman Theatre, which has focused on new works.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Liverpool_Playhouse   (225 words)

  
 Playhouse tells Liverpool's black history
Liverpool's Everyman and Playhouse theatres are to present a spectacular account of the city's fl history.
Stretching from 17th century Africa to present day Liverpool, a fascinating story is woven based on Cheryl Martin's research within Liverpool's fl community.
It is one of 80 projects supported by Liverpool's widely praised £2m Creative Community programme to celebrate the second Capital of Culture themed year, Faith in One City.
www.liverpool08.com /News/Archive/2004/SepOct04/PlayhouseTellsLiverpoolsBlackHistory.asp   (282 words)

  
 Willy Russell - Breezeblock Park - Liverpool Playhouse
Breezeblock Park examines the existence of a working-class Liverpool family, the traditions and prejudices that form the dynamics of the relationship, set within the context of the socio-political climate.
Certainly the audience hilarity at the Liverpool Playhouse last night often reached near fever pitch.
Breezeblock Park, the story of a grisly Christmas on a Liverpool council estate, was so sturdily built that advocates of Russell's looser, more militant style saw it as a betrayal.
www.willyrussell.com /bbpark1.html   (1072 words)

  
 Merseyside and Liverpool Events, Playhouse Theatre - Concerts, Gigs, Plays and Entertainment
The Liverpool Playhouse is the oldest repertory (def : the repeated performance of several plays one after the other by one company of actors) theatre in England.
Following completion of its refurbishment in 2000, the Playhouse now has a new box office, bars and bistro as well as a glazed extension to enhance its facilities.
After struggling through the nineties with rumours of closure and funding difficulties, the Playhouse is going from strength to strength with award winning hits such as The Play What I Wrote.
www.merseyguide.co.uk /ev_playhouse.htm   (122 words)

  
 extended playhouse 21 . paul mccartney
Many who hear Paul McCartney’s Liverpool Sound Collage project detached from any awareness of its relationship to Peter Blake’s About Collage exhibition at the Tate Gallery in Liverpool will relegate it to an attempt to follow “Revolution 9,” the audio collage John Lennon and Yoko Ono assembled for the Beatles’ 1968 White Album.
McCartney returned to Liverpool, conducting interviews on a DAT recorder with stunned passersby (the interviews feature in “Made Up,” immortalising the woman who brings McCartney his chips).
He recorded conversations with students at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (which he helped found) and sampled his return to the Cavern and the Liverpool Oratorio, layering into this mix unused music and dialogue from Beatles sessions dating from 1963 to 1969.
www.inspiracy.com /ep/ep21.html   (486 words)

  
 Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse Theatres
Liverpool writer Chloe Moss is one of the cities most exciting new voices.
This is the story of Lucy, who hears creeping, creaking, crumpling noises coming from behind the wallpaper and is convinced that there are wolves in the walls of her house.
Adapted from his own television play The Flint Street Nativity is a family comedy for any child who’s ever been in a nativity – or any adult who’s watched one through their fingers.
www.liverpooltheatreguide.com /playhouse.htm   (1155 words)

  
 Liverpool Official Guide   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
The fact that Liverpool is not just playing at sport is borne out by the number of expensive projects which have been recently completed to benefit grassroots games enthusiasts.
The Liverpool Empire – the largest two-tier theatre in the UK – lifted the curtain on a spectacular facelift in 2002 and has subsequently gone from strength to strength with a varied repertoire of big West-End style shows.
There are many character pubs in Liverpool as well as the newest and coolest bars around (see 48 hours in Liverpool) but there is nothing like a long draught of the local brew – which is why there was widespread alarm on Merseyside when Liverpool’s only remaining brewery was threatened with closure.
www.british-publishing.com /Pages/Liverpool2004/balls.html   (3046 words)

  
 BBC - Liverpool - Entertainment - Lady of Leisure @ Playhouse
Spencer Leigh goes to the Liverpool Playhouse to watch a 100 year old play about laziness.
This was the last play of the current season for the Liverpool Playhouse and the theatre will now shut for maintenance.
London theatres are open all year round and surely with the huge numbers of tourists descending on the city during the summer, a well-chosen programme could do very well.
www.bbc.co.uk /liverpool/content/articles/2006/05/17/theatre_lady_of_leisure_feature.shtml   (550 words)

  
 Liverpool 08 -  Everyman and Playhouse
The Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse is one theatrical company with two very different theatrical spaces, producing theatre of the highest calibre for Liverpool and the North West.
Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse Lesson Plan Key Stage 1 (PDF [727.8Kb].
Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse Lesson Plan Key Stage 2 (PDF [553.6Kb].
www.liverpool08.com /friendship/liverpool/TreasureChests/EverymanAndPlayhouse/index.asp?mode=graphics   (176 words)

  
 Cox Forum :: View topic - Alex's Blog 2006.2.3 - The Oxford Playhouse   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
In Liverpool the feature film thing seems finally over, absent a Damascene intervention by the Australian artistic director of the Culture Capital, who currently has no English work permit.
Thanks to the Capital of Culture, Liverpool City Council can't really be seen to cut the Everyman/Playhouse funding: although 'Sir' David Henshaw's resignation from the council - so as to avoid paying tax on an unbelievable three hundred and forty thousand pound pension - must take a slice out of the city's funds.
The Oxford Playhouse (much improved since I was there, with more seats, better sound and lighting, and a deeper stage) is a professional theatre.
www.prayforrain.com /coxforum/viewtopic.php?p=313   (1353 words)

  
 Liverpool Hotels and Guide to Blackpool and the North West
A major sporting area, Liverpool is home to Liverpool and Everton football clubs and Aintree Racecourse home to the Grand National.
Liverpool city centre hotel offering 402 bedrooms, restaurants and bars, health and leisure club, wireless Internet access and onsite car parking.
North of Liverpool is Southport, Merseyside's premiere coastal destination.
www.britanniahotels.com /hotel_home.asp?page=207   (421 words)

  
 BBC - Liverpool - Entertainment - The Tempest @ Playhouse
One of our site users went along to review the Playhouse's version of The Tempest, she told us what she thought of one of Shakespeare's toughest plays.
With a seaside pier for inspiration, although fairgrounds and circuses elicit the sinister magic of the isle, gimmickry can be unavoidable.
However, my companion and most of the audience found the effects impressive, and the Playhouse certainly excelled itself with an awe-inspiring setting, crowned by a spectacular trompe l’oeil, the backdrop shifting from landscape to seascape.
www.bbc.co.uk /liverpool/content/articles/2005/10/05/theatre_review_tempest_feature.shtml   (486 words)

  
 icLiverpool - Potty about his Playhouse role   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Christian Coulson, at the Liverpool Playhouse to play Shakespeare's most famous lover boy, is also about to burst on to the big screen as a main character in Harry Potter And The Chamber of Secrets, due for release in November.
Christian is one of three new principal actors to the world of Hogwarts, the others being Liverpool's Jason Issacs (as a villainous father of a boy in Harry's class) and Kenneth Branagh.
In Granada TV's remake of the Forsyte Saga, made in Liverpool, he played Jolly Forsyte, killed off by typhoid in the Boar War.
icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk /0300whatson/0400theatre/page.cfm?objectid=12235016&method=full&siteid=50061   (457 words)

  
 Liverpool Playhouse Theatre - The Official Tourist Information Website for Liverpool and Merseyside
As Liverpool prepares to take on the mantle of European Capital of Culture in 2008, the Everyman and Playhouse are experiencing a dramatic upsurge in creative activity.
The M53 jct 1 is 4.2 miles from the city centre.
The Playhouse is in a pedestrian only part of Liverpool.
www.visitliverpool.com /site/product-p16284map   (116 words)

  
 Liverpool Nightlife Tips by sandysmith - VirtualTourist.com
A Liverpool charity - the Liverpool art and design trust has been suporting their rejuvenation around the city.
Liverpool has a selection of theatres in the city centre.
Haven't personally sampled the nightlife in Liverpool but there are many clubs available.
members.virtualtourist.com /m/e376/4b960/5/?o=2   (651 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited Arts | Arts critics | The Tempest, Playhouse, Liverpool
Richard Glaves as Ariel in The Tempest, Liverpool Playhouse
The magical isle full of noises and transformations at the heart of Shakespeare's last, great play is generally depicted as a strange and exotic place, both geographically and psychologically.
It needs a director vigilant to the fact that too many of his cast are not waving but drowning.
arts.guardian.co.uk /critic/review/0,,1585969,00.html   (394 words)

  
 LIVERPOOL EVERYMAN & PLAYHOUSE THEATRES - News
And there’s a host of familiar faces spending Christmas at the Playhouse.
The musical pandemonium is named ‘Best Show for Children and Young People’ ahead of its arrival in Liverpool.
Playhouse favourites return to inject some new life into an old classic with Orestes, Helen Edmundson’s brand new telling of Euripides’ Electra.
www.everymanplayhouse.com /news/archive.asp   (225 words)

  
 LIVERPOOL PLAYHOUSE Autumn-Winter 2006
Liverpool Playhouse favourites, Shared Experience, return after their success with Bronte and Jane Eyre
He comes to the Playhouse for one night only bringing his canny gifts of story telling and comic insight with a rare accompaniment by guitarist Andy Roberts of Liverpool Scene.
Adults play the children and the classroom antics backstage of Flint Street Primary School's nativity play are awash with jealousies, teasing, flmail and unrequited love, as only children know how.
www.webspawner.com /users/mamuk/liverpoolplayho.html   (614 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited Arts | | The Lady of Leisure, Playhouse, Liverpool
The Duchess of Malfi, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds
When the Liverpool Playhouse opened in 1911, actors by the names of Baliol Holloway and F Pennington Gush appeared in works by popular authors of the day, including Hubert Henry Davies.
Messrs Holloway and Gush are long gone, but Davies is making a comeback after director Gemma Bodinetz discovered that this dusty curio, originally entitled The Mollusc, was the surprise hit of 1912.
arts.guardian.co.uk /reviews/story/0,,1782204,00.html   (304 words)

  
 The New Wolsey Theatre (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Currently enjoying a new lease of life (Independent on Sunday), Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse is touring Yellowman, a beautiful and engaging drama by Dael Orlandersmith which received outstanding national reviews when it first premiered in 2004, and will play at the New Wolsey from Thursday 9 to Saturday 11 February.
Yellowman is directed by Gemma Bodinetz who is the Artistic Director of Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse.
She was previously an Associate Director at Hampstead Theatre and has directed with Harold Pinter and at the Royal Court Theatre, the Bush Theatre, the Bristol Old Vic, at West Yorkshire Playhouse and for the RSC.
www.wolseytheatre.co.uk.cob-web.org:8888 /public/pages/pr5.html   (376 words)

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