The spectacular musical Aladdin opened at the Sunderland Empire with all the magic, fun and glamour you would expect from Disney – and more. It’s a breathtakingly gorgeous show that shimmers and sparkles with non-stop song, dance and humour. I might be biased because I love a good musical, but I defy anyone who says …
With Earth in the path of a celestial cue-ball approaching with Ronnie O’Sullivan style velocity, and the apocalypse therefore seemingly assured, what would you do? “Rush out and buy all the toilet paper I can find,” quipped one wag on Twitter (formerly X) recently. Having asked herself the question, Newcastle playwright Alison Carr came up …
Folk luminary, Rachel Unthank is set to make her theatrical debut in a new musical, which will get its first outing on South Tyneside next month. Featuring songs from the Great American Songbook, The Audition will be unveiled at The Customs House, South Shields, introducing audiences to five leading ladies all competing to get top …
An exciting prospect has emerged for theatre audiences – anyone who likes a laughter-filled night out, in fact – and especially North East actresses who fancy a long tour in a home-grown hit show. That was the prospect laid out at the Theatre Royal by chief executive Marianne Locatori, top commercial producer David Pugh and …
As a kid, growing up as a copper’s son in a working class suburb of Tyneside, Stuart Brayson was immersed in the industrial heritage of the North East. “The pits had closed but we were still in the shadow of the mining way of life, and we lived close enough to the railway track to …
Julie Hesmondhalgh – and the name, she advises, is pronounced ‘Hesmondhalsh’ – was stopped in her tracks recently. Somebody asked her about Coronation Street. The actress appeared in the ITV soap opera for 16 years, playing Hayley Cropper, the first transgender character in any British ‘soap’. So despite having bade farewell to the role a …
And so it begins… a story which transports a group of school friends from the stressful grind of A level revision into a whirl of mystery and mythology. It’s the second adaptation of David Almond’s novel A Song for Ella Grey to open at Northern Stage and easily the most ambitious. The first, with a …
First, the most important thing to note about this wonderful production is that it ends its run at Newcastle Theatre Royal on Saturday (Feb 10) so you if you want to see it in all its glory you need to be quick. If you’re lucky enough to get a ticket to Scottish Ballet‘s Cinders! you’ll …
Shrek the movie was released in 2001 and was an instant sensation. Its animation, writing and humour were all highly praised and the film firmly established Dreamworks as a serious rival to Pixar in the new age of computer animation. The film tells the story of Shrek, an ogre whose life of contented solitude is …
There’s excitement in the air at Live Theatre. A chunky run of staged readings of Seconds Away! — a new play with songs, created by Jimmy Nail and Ian La Frenais — kicked off last night (Feb 6), offering sell-out crowds at the Newcastle theatre a first taste of a project, which has been five …
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