For three nights only, The Becoming is coming back, inviting audiences to witness a ‘raw expression of resilience and creativity’ born of the frustrations of lockdown. To shed a little light on what promises to be three memorable nights, I meet Liv Lorent at the headquarters of balletLORENT, the contemporary dance company she set up …
Charlie Whinney, the lead artist at Creative Communities UK CIC, has been chosen to head a project which will mark the anniversary of the loss of the tree at Sycamore Gap. The artist commission is in two phases and is led by the national park in partnership with the National Trust — who gifted a …
For Trevor Wood, the writing must shortly make way for the talking. Book number five from the Newcastle-based purveyor of page-turners is on the launchpad and ready to go. But The Silent Killer is something else, a challenging novel with two compelling interwoven strands, one rooted in familiar crime-busting territory and the other to do …
Annual blast of brass to signal festival’s return Durham Brass Festival begins in traditionally rousing style tomorrow (Friday, July 5) with a gig in the cathedral featuring Public Service Broadcasting (PSB) and the NASUWT Riverside Band. The former, marking 40 years since the miners’ strike, will perform their hit album, Every Valley. It’s a sell-out …
Newcastle Theatre Royal is set to become a ‘sea of black and white’ this autumn as a play which started life in an attic in Whitley Bay prepares for a big league promotion. The venue is teaming up with Laurels Theatre and Eastlake Productions to announce a North East-soaked co-production of Gerry and Sewell — …
“We had some people being a bit sceptical about whether our film would translate internationally… so it’s quite ironic that it’s getting its premiere in New Zealand!” North East film-maker Toby Robson is talking about his feature documentary, Poised, which gets its first official showing this week at Doc Edge — the Academy Award-qualifying festival …
Hannah Perry’s exhibition on Baltic’s level 4 offers a very different experience to the one it has replaced, Michael Rakowitz’s display of greenery with its garden centre planters under natural light. Machine-like structures and neon strips are there now, the latter framing a giant screen and flashing in accordance with the computer programme that governs …
Sometimes in life you get the opportunity to do what millionaires do after breakfast; in our case when we had finished the reconstruction of the top floor of the Tyneside Irish Centre after the Late Shows, it was obvious that we had the potential to do something we’d always wanted to do and have a …
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 …
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