Everyman Palace Theatre, Victorian theatre in MacCurtain Street, Cork, Ireland.
Everyman Palace Theatre is a Victorian-era theatre on MacCurtain Street in central Cork, Ireland. The auditorium seats around 650 people and features four decorated boxes set into the walls of the historic interior.
The building opened in 1897 as Dan Lowrey's Palace of Varieties, a variety entertainment hall named after its founder. It later became a cinema and ran as one for several decades before returning to live performance in the late 1980s.
The theatre's name comes from the Everyman Theatre Company, which restored the building in 1990; it was rebranded simply as The Everyman in 2012. Each October it serves as a primary venue for the Guinness Jazz Festival, and its Christmas pantomime is a recurring tradition. In summer, the programme features productions by Irish playwrights.
The theatre is on MacCurtain Street, a short walk from Cork city center, and easy to find on foot. The building is historic and wheelchair access is limited, so visitors with mobility needs should check available entrances before arriving.
The Everyman's front-of-house ushers are all volunteers, a practice the theatre has kept since its 1990 reopening as a producing house. The building itself opened on Easter Monday 1897 as Dan Lowrey's Cork Palace of Varieties, and its Victorian auditorium holds 650 seats.
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