Merseyside's new Shakespeare theatre opens by celebrating builders and footballers
Local heroes including screenwriter Jimmy McGovern and comedian Johnny Vegas will take stage at Shakespeare North Playhouse this summer A new Shakespearean theatre is to open in Merseyside this summer with a ceremony that celebrates "local heroes" including the builders who constructed it. The £30m Shakespeare North Playhouse in Prescot, Knowsley, has a 470-seat theatre, the Cockpit, modelled on Inigo Jones's cock…