A show which finds the funny as well as the challenges of living with alopecia has opened at a Tyneside theatre. Following a successful run at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2023, Newcastle performer Sam Macgregor booked a chunky run of Truly, Madly, Baldly at Laurels Theatre in Whitley Bay. Bafta-nominated actor, Jack Robertson (Gerry and …
There was a ‘wow!’ moment from The Glasshouse this week with the announcement that the Philip Glass Ensemble is performing there on September 26, on a rare UK tour. The group were founded in New York in 1968 by Glass himself, the composer who upended classical and film music in the last century with his …
£300,000 funding boost for Newcastle University museum and gallery Research England has awarded Newcastle University’s museum and art gallery significant funding to support their important work with researchers. Over the next five years, The Great North Museum: Hancock will be given £235,000 and the Hatton Gallery £80,000 from the organisation’s Higher Education Museums, Galleries and …
Tickets are on sale for BBC Proms at The Glasshouse whose return with a clutch of varied concerts will be music to the ears of all who enjoyed last year’s inaugural weekend mini-season. It puts the North East music centre on a par with the Royal Albert Hall and provides a weekend home for the …
Rambert, which prides itself on being the country’s oldest dance company (centenary coming up in 2026), is on the brink of a Newcastle return — good news for fans and a special thrill for one of its dancers. Conor Kerrigan, who was born in Newcastle and grew up in Gateshead, has been waiting for this …
Northumberland is no stranger to offering a dramatic and stunning backdrop to big-hitting feature films and TV winners over the years. Robin Hood, Elizabeth, Harry Potter, Downton Abbey, the first series of Blackadder, Transformers – The Last Knight, various tellings of Macbeth, Beowulf and — of course — Vera being some of the best known …
For a good few years in the 2010s, the sight of a massive tent plonked between The Sage (as it was then, Glasshouse pedants) and Baltic meant one thing… lots and lots of laughs. The Jesterval comedy festival, which usually ran for around 10 days, brought a steady stream of top drawer stand ups to …
Writers and readers are alerted to the summer programme of New Writing North (NWN), that engine of literary enterprise that has worked wonders for all who take pleasure in words. From the humblest of beginnings, the Newcastle-based writing development agency has grown to embrace the North as defined from coast to coast, helping writers in …
The Mining Art Gallery has proved to be one of The Auckland Project’s most popular attractions since opening in 2017 with its nooks and crannies mimicking to some extent the confined nature of underground working. It has an extensive collection of poignant artworks relating to the coal mining industry, much of it the work of …
Call out for Sycamore Gap exhibition Northumberland National Park Authority (NNP) is looking for artists and creatives to design an exhibition celebrating the legacy of the iconic Sycamore Gap tree. The commission callout follows the recent announcement that the tree’s trunk section will find a new permanent home on public display at The Sill National …
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