Tim Crouch Perfect Fools Arts Centre Washington 15 February 2019
Lee Mattinson The Letter Room Northern Stage 15 to 16 February 2019
Ben Benison Hull Truck Theatre Northern Stage, Newcastle 12 to 16 February 2019
Choreographed by Kristin Kelly-Abbott and the company Abbott Dance Theatre Customs House, South Shields 7 February 2019
Ishy Din Tamasha, Kiln Theatre & Live Theatre Live Theatre 6 to 23 February 2019
Based on the novel by Michael Morpurgo, adapted by Nick Stafford National Theatre in association with Handspring Puppet Company Sunderland Empire 6 to 23 February 2019
Gary Kitching and Steve Byron Alphabetti Theatre in partnership with The Worriers Alphabetti Theatre, Newcastle 1 to 23 February 2019
Richard O'Brien Howard Panter for Trafalgar Theatre Productions Sunderland Empire 28 January to 2 February 2019
Long-running West End hit comes to Sunderland Empire and Darlington Hippodrome.
Hexham’s Queen’s Hall Arts Centre has announced its new season.
balletLORENT revives After Dark in Newcastle in March
Nine NE nominees for the Great British Pantomime Awards
Professional theatre productions in the North East in the week beginning Monday 18 February 2019.
The Book of Mormon, the musical which takes a comic look at the Mormon religion, is coming to Sunderland.
Newcastle’s balletLORENT has been nominated for a National Dance Award
A venue and a dance company from the North East have won Fantastic for Families Awards
A new show about climate change, made by children, for grown-ups, from NE theatre company Cap-a-Pie.
Newcastle’s Tyne Theatre and Opera House has been awarded accessibility funding from the Theatres Trust.
A NE-based director is to direct a classic play which his father directed 25 years ago
The Customs House in South Shields is offering an opportunity to a NE-based playwright under the age of 25
Professional theatre productions in the North East in the week beginning Monday 11 February 2019.
One singer brings an opera singing mouse, war-time knitting songs and classic French chanson to a Byker pub.
Professional theatre productions in the North East in the week beginning Monday 4 February 2019.
The Customs House in South Shields presents a detective story with a difference for half-term.
One of the 2018 successes at Nottingham Playhouse, Beth Steel’s play about the miners’ strike of 1984, Wonderland is to begin another run at the theatre.
City of Dreams brings Our City Our Story to Live Theatre, giving under-25s a platform to tell their own stories and shape the future of the city.
The Customs House receives lottery funding for three creative projects with looked-after children in South Tyneside.
Professional theatre productions in the North East in the week beginning Monday 28 January 2019.
Newcastle’s Live Theatre announces a wide ranging programme which runs from February to October
Twenty Seven Productions is developing a new musical based on the history of Middlesbrough.
The Empire Theatre and Cinema in Consett has announced its programme for 2019.
NE company The Letter Room takes No Miracles Here, a story of resilience and hope set in a dance marathon, on a national tour.
NE editor Peter Lathan looks back over the year in theatre in the North East
NE editor Peter Lathan looks back at what was, for him, the pick of North East theatre in 2018.
A listing of all professional pantomimes and children's Chrisrmas shows in the North East.
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.
