A landmark £38m theatre is set to open in Merseyside this summer and a new board of trustees has now been appointed.
The new Shakespeare North Playhouse, home to the only 17th-century ‘Cockpit” theatre outside London, is set to open its doors in Prescot with a weekend of festivities on July 15-17. A new board of trustees have joined the board of the Shakespeare North Trust ahead the opening of the new venue, which is expected to attract over 140,000 visitors a year to the region.
Former Liverpool ECHO editor Alastair Machray MBE, chair of Liverpool Bluecoat and Chester Storyhouse Peter Mearns and ACC Liverpool managing director Faye Dyer, are among those to have joined the board. They are also joined by creative consultant and inclusion champion Saphena Aziz of charity Curious Minds, digital visionary Jon Corner, and Sheena Wrigley, venue director at The Factory - Manchester International Festival.
