Theatre in Newcastle and the North East
Theatre News
Hobbit stage adaptation comes to Darlington
KAREN MCLAUCHLAN has this week's Tyneside theatre round-up
Music shows at Hartlepool's Town Hall theatre
RELIVE the excitement of a night at Liverpool’s Cavern Club in the 1960s tonight.
Lots to learn for Disney fairytale princesses
ENTERTAINMENT Editor GORDON BARR goes to the ball to chat to Cinderella before she heads for two days of shows in Newcastle
Interview: Actor Graham Seed
BARBARA HODGSON hears actor Graham Seed is swapping country fields for trenches
David Troughton enjoying life on the road
POPULAR actor David Troughton is back in the region this week, playing opposite Alison Steadman in Alan Bennet’s Enjoy at the Theatre Royal.
Theatre Reviews & Previews
Review: Oh What a Lovely War, Northern Stage, Newcastle
STUNNING, one audience member remarked as we left the theatre. Never has a truer word been spoken.
Review: Enjoy, Theatre Royal, Newcastle
ALAN Bennett’s dark comedy Enjoy is at Newcastle Theatre Royal until Saturday. Entertainment Editor GORDON BARR saw it – but did he like it?
Review: Woman in Black, Darlington Civic Theatre
IT was like being a part of a real-life horror. So tense was the atmosphere in this ghost story that it was hard to separate yourself from the action on stage.
Review: Lee Hall- How to Make a Successful Play, Live Theatre
IF THERE’S anyone who knows the secret of a successful play then Lee Hall is surely your man.
Review: Porridge, Darlington Civic Theatre
IN THE Seventies, Slade was a very popular group whose hits were numerous and always guaranteed to be a success at parties.
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Review: Woman in Black, Darlington Civic Theatre
IT was like being a part of a real-life horror. So tense was the atmosphere in this ghost story that it was hard to separate yourself from the action on stage.
Darlington students perform funky musicial
FOLLOW the yellow brick road ... that’s the message from the 70 strong young cast of Darlington Arts Academy theatre arts group.
People's Theatre stages ancient comedy
The People’s Theatre in Heaton is this week staging the comedy Lysistrata by Aristophanes.
