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Craig Conway as Abanazar and Chris Hayward as Mrs Twankey in Aladdin at the Theatre Royal in Newcastle.

Daleks no match for brilliant Danny

VERY soon the Theatre Royal panto will reach £1m in box office takings, we learned last night. It is likely that no-one (except perhaps the one woman in the stalls who is going to get very wet each night) will regard this as money wasted. Read

Final curtain call for opera company with singer shortage

THE curtain has fallen for the last time on Northern Opera, the region’s only amateur grand opera company. Read

Northern Stage production of A Christmas Carol

A performance even better than sausages

A Christmas Carol at Northern Stage until January 12 - HOW nice not to have to deliver a Scrooge-like review as the festive season begins – as it surely does with this Champagne fizz of a production. Read

Real voices tell a moving tale of war

Motherland at Live Theatre, Newcastle, until December 8 - IT’S a testament to the work of the Northumbria Live Academy that their student productions can be judged by the highest professional standards. Read

Biggest baddies to take on festive foe

Urmee Khan goes backstage at rehearsals for Aladdin and comes face-to-face with three fearsome villains. Read

Distant war far too close for comfort

A NUMBER of plays have focused on the fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, but Steve Gilroy’s Motherland is the first to pull focus and examine the effects back home on the family and friends of British servicemen. Read

A simply delightful show

Tattercoats at Northern Stage, Newcastle, until January 5 - THE last children’s Christmas production at Northern Stage was a complete sell-out. Read

Oh, yes it really is

It’s that time of year again – oh, yes it is! Barbara Hodgson takes a look at what’s on offer this panto season. Read

Bite-size taboo goes to Royal Court

A PLAY which premiered in a Newcastle city centre bar has earned a run in one of London’s most famous theatres. Read

Desmond Barrit as Hector in Alan Bennett's new play, The History Boys

Lessons were never as riveting as this

The History Boys at Newcastle Theatre Royal until Saturday - WHILE for some people school days may be the happiest of their lives, for others they evoke memories of avoiding the teachers while trying to keep up with the class swot. Read

Shining a light into dark corners

NEWCASTLE’S revamped Live Theatre is about to premiere the work of six new playwrights – all of them under the age of 11. Read

Helena Blackman starring in South Pacific at the Sunderland Empire

More enchanted evenings

South Pacific at Sunderland Empire until Saturday - THERE is a whole generation for whom the rolling, romantic numbers of this Rodgers and Hammerstein wartime epic form the soundtrack to their early lives. Read

Troupe of fairies steal show

Iolanthe at Newcastle Theatre Royal until tonight - SEX-OBSESSED politicians, nepotism and an invasion of parliament by creatures that are not quite human. Read

Soul selling is an art in itself

SELLING your soul to the devil remains as powerful and provocative a concept now as it was to audiences when Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus was first performed in the late 1500s. Read

Easy going approach to famously funny social satire

The Importance of Being Earnest at Newcastle Theatre Royal until Saturday Read

Moving story delivered with humour and music

THERE’S no business like showbusiness – so sings drag queen Coco, a born entertainer who once appeared with stars as glittering as Judy Garland and Barbra Streisand. Read

Lady is one for perfect diction

THE most famous line in Oscar Wilde’s comedy classic The Importance of Being Earnest has to be: “A handbag!” That’s the incredulous response from Lady Bracknell to a bizarre tale. Read

Penelope goes Wilde at Theatre Royal

ONE of Britain’s best loved actresses plays one of Oscar Wilde’s best known characters at the Theatre Royal in Newcastle from tonight. Read

Making a meal of 30 minute drama

MINUTES ago I was in the office. Now I am in a claustrophobic Victorian sitting room eavesdropping on a man plotting a way to test his wife’s fidelity. Read

Theatre makes blockbuster comeback

THE difference is obvious on first sight of the new-look Live Theatre on Newcastle Quayside, which after a £5.5m refurbishment and extension recently re-opened with the debut of Lee Hall’s The Pitmen Painters. Read

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