Whyman in NY Honours List
Erica Whyman, director and chief exec of Northern Stage who leaves this week to join the RSC, has been awarded the OBE in the New Year Honours List.
Washington announces spring programme
Arts Centre Washington has announced its spring programme which features:
- Half Moon in Curious, for the under-3s, on 30th January
- Men of the Tyne, new Tyneside songs, stories and a film about the men who worked in the Tyneside shipyards from the 1950s to the 1980, featuring poet and playwright Tom Kelly, musicians Ian Ravenscroft and Ron Smith, and folk singer Ted Cuskin, on 31st January.
- Paper Wings by Rhubarb Theatre (age 7+) on 7th February.
- On 14th February Daniel Bye presents performance lecture The Price of Everything.
- Black Fish and Makin Projects brings Alaska (suitable for ages 12+) to the theatre on 21sst February.
- 4Scene, four new half-hour plays from Northumberland Theatre Company, featuring passion, power, politics and pleasure, is on 7th March.
- Aimed at the over-4s, Horse and Bamboo presents Hans Christian Anderson's The Nightingale on 12th March.
- Zendeh brings its latest production Flock, a fairy tale suitable of the over-12s, to the venue on 14th March.
- Red Ladder presents The Thing about Psychopaths on 21st March.
NE writer one of the Traverse 50
In September Newcastle-based playwright Alison Carr entered a playwriting competition from the Traverse in Edinburgh for 500 word Plays for Edinburgh, in the Theatre's search for 50 exciting new theatrical voices to carry the Traverse into its 50th year, and beyond.
630 scripts from across the globe were received and writers have been selected from Scotland, Wales, England, Ireland, Croatia and Australia, and Carr was one of them.
The winning 50 plays will be performed together on 26th January to kick off the project which will run throughout 2013 and culminate in a new writing festival in the Autumn.
What's on this week
Aladdin continues at Newcastle Theatre Royal until 19th January.
The Little Detective Agency (for the under 6s) continues in Stage 2 at Northern Stage until 5th January.
Robin Hood and the Babes in the Wood runs at the Mill Volvo Tyne Theatre until 6th January.
At Sunderland Empire Peter Pan runs until 6th January.
Dick Whittington continues at the Customs House in South Shields until 6th January.
Oddsocks presents The Adventures of Robin Hood at Alnwick Playhouse on Wednesday and Thursday.
Cinderella at runs the Playhouse Whitley Bay until 6th January.
Sleeping Beauty continues at the Gala in Durham until 5th January.
Jack and the Beanstalk at Billingham Forum runs until 6th January.
Peter Pan continues at the Middlesbrough Theatre until 6th January.
Sleeping Beauty at Darlington Civic runs until 20th January.
At the Georgian Theatre Royal in Richmond Babes in the Wood runs until 5th January.
Jack and the Beanstalk continues at Harrogate Theatre until 13th January.