Alina at Sadler’s Wells

Choreography Tim Rushton, Juliano Nunes, Johan Kobborg, Frederick Ashton

Civic

Neil Haigh, Grace Felstead (contributing)

Rose and Robin

Pete Baynes and Shelley O’Brien

The Turn of the Screw

Music by Benjamin Britten; libretto by Myfanwy Piper; based on the novel by H...

A Number

Caryl Churchill

The Rage of Narcissus

Sergio Blanco, translated by Daniel Goldman

Dream, Sleep, Connect

Rosemary Jenkinson

Figures in a Floating Landscape

Concept and choreography by Dora Frankel; concept and music by Peter Coyte

Syndrome

Tina Jay

The Dog Walker

Paul Minx

Pass Over

Antoinette Nwandu

The Cutting Edge

Jack Shepherd

What's on in the North East

Professional theatre productions in the North East in the week beginning Monday 24 February, 2020

Dragons and Mythical Beasts in Darlington and Billingham

A new interactive children’s theatre show is to visit Darlington Hippodrome and Billingham Forum later this year.

Like mother, like daughter!

Stage and screen actress Geraldine Somerville made her Manchester Royal Exchange debut as Laura Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie in 1989 and returns there to become Amanda Wingfield.

Liverpool première for Dim Lit Star

Life, love and friendship come together in a new play receiving its première at the Hope Street Theatre in Liverpool.

Nottingham theatre goes behind Gone With the Wind

Ron Hutchinson, writer of the play Moonlight and Magnolias which is to run at Nottingham Playhouse, hopes that lifting the curtain on the backstage shenanigans behind Gone With the Wind will not spoil audiences’ appreciation of the film.

Studio-sized host of work

Manchester Royal Exchange Studio hosts an array of pieces of work over coming weeks.

Unanima wins In Good Company £10,000 funding fee

Midlands development programme In Good Company has announced its biggest rise in commissioning funding, with a £10,000 fee going to Mansfield-based Unanima Theatre for its show State of Independence.

Chichester announces Festival 2020 season

Chichester Festival Theatre's 2020 Festival will comprise five world premières—including first plays by Steven Moffat and Kate Mosse and new work by Suhayla El-Bushra and Christopher Shinn—and revivals of modern dramas.

Three RSC productions “explore relationship with Europe”

The Royal Shakespeare Company is to present in Stratford three productions that are part of Projekt Europa “exploring, celebrating and interrogating our relationship with Europe”.

Jewish Museum's city festival

Manchester Jewish Museum stages its first-ever Festival of Belonging.

Navy Lark docks in Liverpool

The first stage version of classic BBC radio comedy The Navy Lark sails into Liverpool.

At HOME with Little Wimmin

Figs in Wigs is back at HOME in Manchester with Little Wimmin.

Theatres at Risk

Theatres Trust, the national advisory public body for theatres, has published the 2020 Theatres at Risk Register.

Touring News – February 2020

Sandra Giorgetti looks at the tours that take to the road next month which includes more than the usual number of shows for younger audiences.

Showtown museum dedicated to Blackpool's entertainment heritage

Showtown—Blackpool’s first-ever museum, set to open next year—had a suitably-showbusiness launch.

Touring News – January 2020

Sandra Giorgetti looks at the tours that take to the road next month including the first tour from Cardiff's The Other Room with a trio of dystopian dramas, a gender-swapped classic Faustus: That Damned Woman and the last of Luke Wright's trilogy The Remains of Logan Dankworth.

2019: musicals trump serious drama in Manchester

Manchester reviewer David Cunningham gives a detailed account of his top theatre visits of 2019, with some comments about the intrusive security policies of some theatres.

The best of North East theatre in 2019 (according to me)

NE editor Peter Lathan selects his “best of…” in the North East for 2019.