Theatre in Newcastle & theatres in the North East

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Review: Avenue Q at Theatre Royal Newcastle May 24 2012

YOU may never look at The Muppets the same way again. You could even find yourself having doubts about that innocent-looking Sooty and Sweep, wondering what’s really been going on under the table all those years.Read

Preview: Made in Heaven at Dance City Newcastle May 23 2012

YOU’RE invited into a surreal world peopled by a blinded cop, malicious virgin and a prairie girl who dreams of something better as The Mark Bruce Company visits Dance City this weekend – and The Journal has a special deal offering readers two tickets for the price of one.Read

Preview: 80s Mania at Sunderland Empire May 22 2012

THAT decade of forgettable fashions and unforgettable songs is making a return, to Sunderland anyway, so dig out those leg-warmers and shoulder pads and join in some 80s Mania.Read

Preview: Geronimo! at ARC, Stockton Arts Centre May 22 2012

A NEW theatre company and a new play make their joint debut tomorrow at ARC, the Stockton arts centre.Read

Review: Matthew Bourne’s Nutcracker! at Theatre Royal Newcastle May 17 2012

I’VE seen several versions of The Nutcracker – generally perfect, pretty, sparkly affairs – but it comes as no surprise that award-winning choreographer Bourne, who takes dance to a new dimension, goes one step further in his take on the classic ballet.Read

Review: Curtains at the Little Theatre, Gateshead May 16 2012

A NEW musical, Robbin Hood of the Old West, is taking shape when the leading lady is murdered. Grief among fellow cast members is short-lived. She was dreadful and, of course, the show must go on.Read

Interview with: Philip Ridley author of Tender Napalm May 15 2012

BARBARA HODGSON speaks to the author of an explosive drama opening in Newcastle tomorrow for a two-night run.Read

Live Theatre announces second collaboration with Soho Theatre May 14 2012

A NEW theatre project linking Newcastle and London is helping to create a perfect world. Barbara Hodgson reports.Read

Preview: The Sleeping Beauty at the The Maltings Theatre, Berwick May 14 2012

CLASSICAL ballet The Sleeping Beauty is heading to Berwick in Northumberland this week with an international cast of dancers.Read

Review: Birmingham Royal Ballet at Gala Theatre, Durham May 10 2012

THE full-length Don Quixote (Choreography: Marius Petipa. Music: Ludwig Minkus) has never found a place in British ballet’s repertory and hearts. Its great and technically demanding pas de deux, however, is a regular feature of mixed bills.Read

Preview: Curtains at The Little Theatre, Gateshead May 09 2012

YOU’LL have heard of Cabaret and Chicago...but Curtains? If the name doesn’t ring any bells, a North East musical theatre company is out to educate as well as entertain us.Read

Review: Hertfordshire Chorus at The Sage Gateshead May 08 2012

IT’S said the English romantic poet John Keats wrote his Ode to a Nightingale in a single day in 1819, inspired by one of the birds singing in a garden.Read