All posts tagged "Prescot Playhouse"

  • Theatre Crane Towers 190ft above Prescot

    A massive crane will alter the Prescot skyline for more than a year to come. The structure will stand on the Shakespeare North construction site for an estimated 65 weeks in total, lifting weights of up to...

    • Posted January 31, 2020
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  • Dame Judi Promotes Prescot Theatre in Parliament

    Dame Judi Dench took the news of Prescot’s Shakespeare North Playhouse development to Parliament yesterday (Wednesday 15 January). The Oscar-winning actor, whose stage, film and TV career has included seven appearances as M in the James Bond...

    • Posted January 16, 2020
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  • Main Theatre Construction Begins January

    Above-ground construction on the Shakespeare North theatre in Prescot will begin in January 2020. Knowsley Council have appointed contractors Kier Construction for the two-year task. The ground, formerly part of the Mill Street Car Park, has already...

    • Posted December 5, 2019
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  • Prescot Ambassadors Scoop Judge’s Choice at Business Awards

    A group of Prescot town centre businesses were hailed ‘Judge’s Choice’ at an awards ceremony earlier this month. Restaurateurs, bakers, florists and artists were among those named Prescot Ambassadors, championed at the Knowsley Business Awards for their...

    • Posted November 28, 2018
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  • Prescot Street to Be Called Prospero Place

    The competition to name a new street in Prescot has come to an end, with the public choosing Prospero Place as the winner, from a shortlist of five. The street will be the official address of the...

    • Posted July 17, 2018
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  • Voting Now Open on Shakespeare North Prescot Street Name

    A competition to name the street in front of Prescot’s new Shakespeare North Playhouse is now in its final stage. A shortlist of six Shakespeare-inspired names, along with reasons for the suggestions, is being put to the...

    • Posted June 26, 2018
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  • £14 Million Funding Boost for Prescot Town Centre Theatre & Transport Links

    Prescot will receive an estimated £14 million from the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority, it was announced last week. Some of the pot will go towards the new Shakespeare North theatre and college, while other earmarked projects...

    • Posted June 6, 2018
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  • Construction of Prescot’s Shakespearean Theatre Planned for April

    Construction work on a theatre and college in Prescot town centre is expected to begin in April 2018, following the appointment of contractors by Knowsley Council. Liverpool-based Kier Construction are to build the 350-seat Elizabethan theatre, housed...

    • Posted January 31, 2018
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  • Event: View the Plans for Shakespeare North’s Prescot Theatre

    The public are invited to view plans for a 328-seat theatre in Prescot. Charitable trust Shakespeare North are following a design by Inigo Jones (1573-1652), one of modern England’s earliest and most important architects. The complex will...

    • Posted September 15, 2017
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  • Prescot Theatre Dig Turns up Historical Artefacts

    Archaeologists have unearthed items dating from the 15th to 17th centuries during preparatory work on the site of Prescot’s new theatre. Pieces of kitchenware, earthenware, storage jars and fragments of a tobacco pipe were among the artefacts...

    • Posted March 22, 2017
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