Founded around 1961, the Everyman Theatre was opened as a foil to the already well established Playhouse Theatre and immediately tried to make a name for itself with plays written by and concentrating on the lives of the people of Liverpool.

The theatre when first opened seated 700 people and was situated above what was then Hope Hall, and which is now the Everyman Bistro. But it has a very colored history, before it was a theatre it was a cinema, and before that it was a chapel.

The theatre has not been without its ups and downs and in 1965 it almost went bankrupt. In fact, it would have done if a mysterious man hadn't phoned in and pledged £1,000 to keep the theatre open. Then later that year the front of the theatre was partially destroyed by a mob of people during a controversial musical.

Later on the Everyman founded its own drama school and despite its earlier teething problems has gone from strength to strength and if nothing unexpected happens it should continue to do so for years to come.