Wimbledon is almost upon us, heralding a timely return for a show that proved to be something of a ‘game, set and match’ for Newcastle’s little Alphabetti Theatre when it premiered there two summers ago. A re-match, given the enthusiastic response, always must have been on the cards for All White Everything But Me which …
It’s Beamish, the denizens of the Living Museum of the North are in period costume and in the projection room of The Grand, Bill Mather is remembering the day he got his long trousers. Bill isn’t in period costume. He has come as himself to renew acquaintance with the place he calls “my palace of …
The 25 winners of the 25th Northern Writers’ Awards were rewarded and applauded this week at Northumbria University which is the headline sponsor of the event produced by New Writing North. It was another joyous reflection of the writing talent that exists across the North and which is still to be properly recognised by publishers, …
Efforts to put the much loved Tyneside Cinema on a sound footing have received a £700,000 fillip from Northstar Ventures, the North East venture capital firm. The money comes in the form of a loan from the firm’s North East Social Investment Fund and is to be paid back over 10 years. But the financial …
Dance City does what it says on the tin — or at least on the front of the building — but in this Refugee Week the focus is as much on food as on dance. That’s why I’m sitting in the café with Anand Bhatt, Dance City’s artistic director and chief executive, where the chalkboard …
If you see a palaeontologist dancing a jig in the poetry section of your local bookshop (which admittedly requires a lot of unlikely ducks to align), there’s a chance he or she has just spotted Rhizodont. Anything with a title like that is going to appeal to a fossil fan while requiring a little explanation …
Raby Castle, dark and brooding amid County Durham’s lushest green, is the real deal as far as castles go — not a rebuilt ruin or an upstart pastiche but a proper 14th Century pile with plenty to thrill a fan of the Horrible Histories or the dramas of Julian Fellowes. It was built by the …
Opera North have put a Tyneside spin on the promotion of their autumn season at the Theatre Royal with characters in the forthcoming productions pictured somehow dodging kittiwake poo on the Quayside. It’s a neat touch although other cities on the tour itinerary are doubtless getting the same attention. North East fans of opera know …
Eliot Smith Dance (ESD) is on the road with a programme that illustrates what the company is all about and under a title that does likewise. The past is represented by the first of the programme’s contrasting works, a revival of Duet, a 1964 creation by American choreographer Paul Taylor. It’s not the first work …
A busy summer lies ahead for Kathryn Tickell including a clutch of gigs in Canada and one in France. First, though, there’s her appearance with Amy Thatcher at What A Wonderful World Festival in Alnwick. And what a wonderful name for a festival. Established in 2022, it brings together luminaries from science and the arts …
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