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Surreal look at troubled family

WELCOME to Leenane, “…the murder capital of fecking Europe”. Read

Here's your chance to cheat at Eurovision

IF you watch the Eurovision Song Contest with tongue in cheek, you might enjoy a show which does likewise. Read

Giant Robot takes Centre Stage to Promote Pantomime

HE’S ready to show his mettle on stage with a performance head and shoulders above the rest of the cast. Read

Michael Praed in Bill Kenwright production of Sleuth

Review: Sleuth, Newcastle Theatre Royal

BACK in the old days (1970, to be precise) Anthony Shaffer’s play Sleuth had a real edge. Read

Rollercoaster ride for actor MacCorkindale

He’s had ups and downs in Casualty and now he’s on another rollercoaster ride. Barbara Hodgson speaks to actor Simon MacCorkindale about his starring role in Sleuth. Read

Dancing is fantastic but the plot’s bewildering

THIS is a fast and exhilarating fusion of traditional Irish dancing with American tap. Packed full of explosive, fiery special effects, it has been dazzling audiences around the globe for 10 years and has returned here after a sell-out run in 2005. Read

Star line-up for musical Flashdance

THERE’S an autumn treat in store for Flashdance fans – the world premiere production of the musical is appearing at the Sunderland Empire from October 20 to 25. Read

This talented bunch show their skills

WITH 14 million tuning in to watch the final of ITV’s Britain’s Got Talent, it was hardly surprising that last night’s live show at the Metro Radio Arena was a sell-out, despite Newcastle City Hall hosting the same event just last Friday. Read

Dorian Gray dancing his way to Theatre Royal

TICKETS for the autumn season at Newcastle Theatre Royal have gone on sale to the general public and business is likely to be lively. Read

Review: Cilla & Me, Live Theatre, Newcastle

IT’S Christmas Eve and middle-aged has-been club singer Cilla is preparing for a party. Read

Bob and Terry play it for laughs again

IT has been a while since we were entertained by Bob Ferris and Terry Collier. Whatever happened to them? The same question was asked in the early 1970s after The Likely Lads had ridden off into a 1960s Geordie sunset. Read

Peter Bowles starring in Relatively Speaking

Review: Relatively Speaking, Newcastle Theatre Royal

It has been a long time returning, Alan Ayckbourn’s first West End hit, but full marks to seasoned Theatre Royal audience member Peter Stattersfield for remembering its first visit back in 1967 with Michael Hordern and a little-known Richard Briers in the cast. Read

David Ericsson in the theatre production of Arsenic and Old Lace

Classic and classy tale of murder wins new friends

STEFAN Escreet’s production of this classic American black comedy gets off to an attention-grabbing start. As the audience is plunged into darkness, the auditorium is filled with sounds of a bustling city and you’re immediately transported to 1940s Brooklyn. Read

Opera was no tragedy

I MIGHT know Shakespeare’s play pretty well but I know hardly anything about opera. Read

The show will go on for Scaramouche Jones

IN the showbiz world the show must always go on – but it’s taken a real team effort to get Scaramouche Jones up and running. Read

Review: Roméo et Juliette

SO there’s this 19th Century Frenchman writing the opera of a 16th Century Englishman’s play set in Italy but sung in French – and we had English super titles. Read

Leonardo Capalbo as Romeo and Bernarda Bobro as Juliette

Opera North delivers treat for fans of Bard

OPERA North arrives in the region today with a treat for Shakespeare fans and heartening news for devotees of opera. Read

Taking humour of North Down Under

GEORDIE humour can be appreciated just as much down south and as far afield as New Zealand, it seems, and comedy writing duo Ed Waugh and Trevor Wood are about to prove it. Read

Review: Dad's Army

IT looks like Dad’s Army, it sounds like Dad’s Army and to last night’s audience, to all intents and purposes, it was Dad’s Army. Read

Bizarre journey with sex and chocolates

A BIZARRE journey into the world of the weird and wonderful – with plenty of humour, sex and chocolate – is at the heart of a play which will premiere at Northern Stage in Newcastle on Friday. Read

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