A miniature white coffin filled with blonde locks is brought to the stage and signals the start of Truly, Madly Baldly – the story of writer and lead performer Sam Macgregorโs experiences with alopecia. We were gathered upstairs at Laurels Theatre for the show, which is framed as a humanist memorial for Sam’s gone but …
April 26ย …. and first a look at what has previously happened on this day in history …. 1564 William Shakespeare was baptised in Stratford-upon-Avon (although we celebrate his birthday on April 23rd, his actual date of birth is not known) 1803 Thousands of fragments fell from the sky in L’Aigle, France; convincing scientists of the existence of …
โIโm a 60-year-old with the thigh muscles of a man half my age. Go on, have a feel.โ I almost choked on my cherry Coke. My shorthand suddenly drifted off into a trembling, wavy scribble. I could feel beads of sweat starting to drip down the inside of my best pinstripe trilby. And I realised …
Play spin-offs from TV sitcoms are a genre unto themselves. You go not to see characters on a page brought to life by actors but actors playing the actors who made them famous on TV. So it is with Fawlty Towers, Hi-de-Hi! and indeed Dadโs Army. Captain Mainwaring, thanks to 80 episodes in nine series …
Youโd normally expect to pay top dollar to be entertained by international opera stars at a premiere. But last Saturday a Northumberland audience got real value for money. Swap a box at La Scala for the stalls of Blythโs Phoenix theatre, get the performers to wrap their powerful vocal cords around broad Geordie lyrics and …
There were certain freedoms to be enjoyed by an actress in the mid-19th Century, as one of the characters confides in Janet Platerโs entertaining new play. However, it seems the same could be said of audience members, at liberty to holler dissatisfaction mid-performance or hurl โclartsโ at the stage. In Limelight we are backstage โflies …
Amazon Primeโs latest big budget TV show Fallout is the adaptation of a long-running and much loved series of video games that are set in a version of the United States that has been pretty much eviscerated by nuclear war. Like several of the games, the narrative starts before the bombs drop, in a version …
โBut whatโs the local angle,โ my irritable news editor would bark across the office floor at least 10 times every day. Inevitably, there was one. And the Chronicle, like every local and regional newspaper back in the day, would pride itself on finding some close-to-home connection to the biggest story of the day โ however …
How might the Brontรซ sisters have sounded and behaved if theyโd been equipped with a 21st Century mindset? Sarah Gordonโs award-winning play, premiered at the National Theatre in a co-production with Northern Stage, directed by the latter’s Natalie Ibu, takes that unspoken question and runs with it to hilarious effect. Thus you get Victorian women …
As someone who went from seven to 12 during The Tubeโs five series (1982-87), itโs fair to say that the Green Room snacks and electric typewriters in the production office of the Newcastle-based groundbreaking music show often offered more excitement than an extended set by Tina Turner, Paul McCartney or Iggy Pop. So while I …
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