Features

The best of North East theatre in 2018 – according to me

NE editor Peter Lathan looks back at what was, for him, the pick of North East theatre in 2018.

Review of the Year 2018 - The London Stage

Philip Fisher reviews the theatrical year in London in 2018.

Touring News – December 2018

Sandra Giorgetti looks at the tours that take to the road next month and sees autobiographical refugee story Pizza Shop Heroes and raunchy cult The Rocky Horror nestle between some family shows.

Everyone loves a panto – oh no they don’t!

If you think slosh scenes are tosh and audience participation is pants then pantos just aren’t your thing. Sandra Giorgetti suggests some alternative shows on offer for the festive season for young and old.

North East pantos & Christmas shows 2018 - 2019

A listing of all professional pantomimes and children's Chrisrmas shows in the North East.

The Armistice and the theatre of war

Sandra Giorgetti looks at theatre's response to the First World War as the centenary of the Armistice approaches.

Touring News – November 2018

Sandra Giorgetti looks at the tours that take to the road next month including Canary from Fun in the Oven Theatre about munitions workers in the First World War called Canary Girls because the chemicals they worked with turned their skin yellow, and Badac Theatre's story of a mother and child refugee, The Journey.

Great War Theatre

British Theatre Guide's Sandra Giorgetti has been a volunteer researcher on a project to uncover the theatre of the First World War. Here she speaks to the project leader, Dr Helen Brooks, Reader in Theatre & Cultural History at the University of Kent.

Touring News – October 2018

Sandra Giorgetti looks at the tours that take to the road next month including Matt Abbott’s new poetry show Two Little Ducks, RedCape Theatre's comic road trip Thunder Road, trans activist and performer Travis Alabanza’s Burgerz and Wise Children from Emma Rice's new company.

Children and young people need culture and creativity

Peter Lathan reports on the launch of City of Dreams, a NewcastleGateshead initiative to engage 165,000 children and young people in culture and creativity every year for the next decade.

Battersea Arts Centre reopening

Sandra Giorgetti reports on the reopening of Battersea Arts Centre's Grand Hall following a devastating fire in 2015.

Touring News – September 2018

Sandra Giorgetti looks at the tours that take to the road in September including Broke Lad's love letter to Scottish actors and acting Mcluckie's Line, novel adaptations Still Alice, Dracula and Fup and Pot from Diary of a Hounslow Girl writer Ambreen Razia.

Choreographer Wayne Eagling's Remembrance of Marie Rambert

Wayne Eagling on his life and career and his latest work for New English Ballet Theatre, Remembrance, inspired by the story of Dame Marie Rambert’s life during the Great War.

Pip Hambly on her Edinburgh-bound The Kinkens

Pip Hambly—writer, mime artist, clown, theatre-maker and actor—talks about her Edinburgh bound, one-woman show The Kinkens.

August can only mean one thing: all eyes turn to Edinburgh

National reporter Sandra Giorgetti takes a look at the phenomenon that is Scotland's first city in August.

Touring News – August 2018

Sandra Giorgetti looks at the tours that take to the road next month including The Burning Tower which explores the legacy of the Grenfell fire and The Odyssey which visits beaches on the Atlantic coast as part of the Lughnasa FrielFest.

Death of Braham Murray at 75

Braham Murray OBE, one of the founding artistic directors of Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre, has died aged 75.

The North East in Edinburgh

Peter Lathan looks at North East performers and companies going to the 2018 Edinburgh Fringe.

Touring News – July 2018

Sandra Giorgetti looks at the tours that take to the road next month including the first professional production for more than 120 years of Haddon Hall from the National Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Company, thirty years of Fame—The Musical, and Penelope Skinner’s new play Meek.

Prague Spring

Peter Mortimer looks back at the 17th Prague Fringe Festival