The 50th anniversary of Live Theatre, Newcastle, last year, embraced the concept of the rehearsed reading — a rare privilege for a playwright to share their work before it’s finished. The writer uses the reaction of the cast and the audience to further develop their imagined world and characters. The audience gets an exclusive preview of …
The true story of a young orphaned choirboy, whose scribbled plea to be remembered was found more than 100 years after he wrote it, will be told in a new BBC audio play. North East production company Sister Sounds have produced William’s Castle which will be broadcast on Radio 4 on the afternoon of April …
Nine o’clock on Tuesday morning at Newcastle Civic Centre and children from across the city are trooping in for a spot of opera to get the day off to a rousing and harmonious start. It’s not every morning that a six-year-old from Fenham has a date with a singer who has performed on the operatic …
The shimmering centrepiece of a major museum is back in daily action for the first time in four years. The 250-year-old automaton Silver Swan at the Bowes Museum in Barnard Castle, County Durham, returned to its daily performance duties on Tuesday, March 19, after a lengthy conservation overhaul. And the swan project has been shortlisted …
It was said that Edith Piaf could sing the phone book and make it sound good. Last night at Newcastle’s O2 City Hall Liam Gallagher did his level best to do something similar. The album Liam Gallagher & John Squire is not a great record. I’m not even sure it’s a good one. Nobody in …
Back in the days when I covered Westminster for The Journal, Budget Day was by far the most challenging event in the political calendar, requiring me and the rest of the team to put together a front page splash, an inside double-page spread and a 16-page pullout within a few hours of the Chancellor sitting …
The guildhall on Newcastle Quayside was full to capacity on the morning of March 5, 1829, for the trial of a woman charged with murdering her mother. Jane Jamieson was accused of killing her mother with a poker in the town’s Keelman’s Hospital. On Sunday March 24 history will repeat itself with two performances at …
The plight of the Conservative Party increasingly resembles that of the hapless cartoon character Wile E. Coyote. Just like him, the Tories keep devising cunning new plans to arrest the remorseless progress of Road Runner Keir Starmer. But we all know the Acme anvil they have just suspended from a rocket-powered kite is about 10 …
A special event will be held at Newcastle Cathedral tonight (March 20) to remember people whose lives have been lost to suicide. It will be hosted by the organisers of the North East Speak Their Name suicide memorial quilt, which is currently on display at the city centre landmark. Comprising 120 individually crafted squares, each …
Amid FA Cup disappointment on Tyneside following the weekend’s defeat to Manchester City, there is hope that a Newcastle United team could yet win some silverware. Thousands of the club’s fans will head to Kenilworth Road on Saturday hoping to see one in-form side make history. The feelgood factor over the past two years at …
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