A new play called Underdog: The Other Other Brontë has just opened at the National Theatre but there’s good reason in the North East for looking out for the reviews when they start appearing in the coming days (press night in London is April 4). It’s a co-production between the National Theatre and Northern Stage …
April 1 is the date chosen by the BBC for the screening of the engrossing documentary about photographer Tish Murtha who died in 2013 on the eve of her 57th birthday. Director Paul Sng, via Zoom, wryly recalls his first reaction to the news. “Are you sure?” But it was no April Fools wind-up. It’s …
The fifth Newcastle Puppetry Festival will get off to a flying start on Saturday (March 30) — weather permitting — with a City of Kittiwakes Parade along Northumberland Street. What should be a terrific spectacle starts at 2pm — but the work began long before that with around 250 local residents taking part in a …
Anyone who tore through Steve Chambers’ first thriller has had to wait quite a long time for his second — 11 years, to be exact. Worth the wait, though, I’d say. The Dark Months, set mostly in rural Northumberland and full of tension and lethal skulduggery, is that publisher’s dream, a page-turner. There’s a precedent …
It had to be a first. Never before, surely, within the beautiful debating chamber at Newcastle Civic Centre, has anybody raised the prospect of shrink-wrapping local residents. Feasibly it could have been mulled over as a punishment for some civic misdemeanour — non-payment of council tax, perhaps, or serial bus lane infringement. It might even …
Nothing at all for Sir Matthew Bourne to worry about in Newcastle. Not on stage anyway. Back at the Theatre Royal for the first time since 2005, his Edward Scissorhands earned a standing ovation from a sell-out audience on opening night, probably the first of many during a run that extends into a second week. …
At the end of last year, a series of screenings of a film called Tish packed out Tyneside Cinema. Ahead of its small screen premiere on BBC4 next month (April), here’s what David Whetstone had to say about it*. *This is how the review appeared on Cultured. North East in November. Any references to remaining …
Behind every artwork lies a story and Baltic’s latest Open Submission exhibition represents a veritable anthology with 104 submissions having made the cut. “We were aiming for 100 but snuck in an extra four,” smiles Baltic assistant curator Rose McMurray who was on the judging panel. That’s understandable, given the numbers involved here — a …
A full house is expected for this year’s Newcastle Writing Conference for which tickets go on sale today (March 20). Writing may be a solitary activity but that doesn’t mean all writers are solitary people. Grace Keane, senior programme manager at New Writing North, says it’s been five years since the conference last took place. …
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 …
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