SHE may have been living in London for the past 30 years but Sunderland-born actress Melanie Hill still calls the North East home. Which is why she’s delighted to be back in the region in new play Nativities which launches at Live Theatre next Tuesday.Read
THIS was a night to expect the unexpected from Rambert. For it wasn’t the beautiful Roses nor the playful Seven For a Secret, Never to be Told that won the night, but the powerful Monolith.Read
WHILE working for a Sunday tabloid I recall being asked to rip weird and wonderful stories out of magazines such as The National Enquirer and rewrite them as amusing short stories. It was probably journalism in one of its lowest forms but quite harmless, despite the lack of ‘facts’.Read
THE Theatre Royal, standing proud at the top of Newcastle’s Grey Street, has touched the lives of more people than there are seats in the auditorium.Read
YOU just can’t keep a good show down. Since its 1983 debut, Willy Russell’s award-winner has been faithfully doing the rounds and, nearly 30 years on, fans could probably claim to know these brothers better than their own.Read
THERE is no sneaky rose thorn to lay Aurora low in SB artistic director Ashley Page’s engaging take on what for many is the greatest of the 19th Century ballet greats.
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AT the launch of Live Theatre’s new season, artistic director Max Roberts joked that much of the past two years seemed to have been dedicated to “old blokes”.Read
TO many people, Simon Callow is the voice of Dickens. In his one-man stage shows the ebullient actor brings to life the stories, sweeping from Victorian sentimentality to galloping high drama, of Britain’s best-loved author.Read
IT holds the record as the world’s longest-running play, having been part a fixture of the London theatre scene for an extraordinary 60 years, and now, for the first time, The Mousetrap is coming to Newcastle.Read
THE Byker scrapyard fire, which was seen from more than 30 miles away as smoke billowed over the city last year, inspired a project which culminates this evening in a special event at the Lit & Phil in Newcastle.Read
AMONG the gales of laughter he hopes to generate at Live Theatre this week, a few ripples of nostalgia might be discernible. It will be 21 years since Dave Johns made his stand-up debut. Read
WE’RE handed a party popper, an envelope and a pair of oversize glasses before taking our seats to join Donna, the amiable and awkward star of this short play – a sell-out at last year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival – by local writer Lee Mattinson.Read
